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Two particles, levitated by sound, collide again and again. A study in Physical Review E tracks how electric charge builds up between them, a process called triboelectric charging. Read the study: https://go.aps.org/3UR62IH

Researchers detected the kick from a single gas molecule hitting a laser-levitated nanosphere more than 10 million times its size, a study in Physical Review Letters reports. Read the study: https://go.aps.org/4yXKaKD

Latest science policy news from FYI in APS News: NSF ends FY2026 with more than $1 billion unspent, DHS proposes new fees for the OPT international student work program, and the White House announces $6 billion in science initiatives. https://go.aps.org/4yEvqiV

Physicists from every field connect at the APS Global Physics Summit ✨ Abstracts for #APSSummit27 are due today, by 5 p.m. ET. Don't miss this chance to share your research. https://go.aps.org/4roG0Zi

Physicists from every field connect at the APS Global Physics Summit ✨ Abstracts for #APSSummit27 are due today, by 5 p.m. ET. Don't miss this chance to share your research. https://go.aps.org/4roG0Zi

Why is the sun's corona millions of degrees hotter than its surface? A study in Physical Review Letters used powerful lasers to recreate solar nanoflares in the lab and watch them heat plasma. Read the study: https://go.aps.org/3VUfRG5

Black holes can merge, but can they split? A study in Physical Review D explores when a black hole could break apart into a "pair of pants" shape, and when it can't. Read the study: https://go.aps.org/4z0rtWy

Do galaxy clusters spin? A study in Physical Review Letters finds evidence that they do, from a faint warm-and-cool pattern their rotating gas leaves in the universe’s oldest light. Read the study: https://go.aps.org/4zmYxbc

When the dense helium cores of two red giants collide, the merger could produce high-energy neutrinos, finds a study in Physical Review D. IceCube could expect about one such neutrino from a single merger up to 180,000 light years away. Read the study: https://go.aps.org/3TQNKXM

A study in Physical Review D re-analyzes different mechanisms for primordial black hole formation under the dark dimension scenario and finds that, if these cosmic objects exist, they would be five dimensional. Read the study: https://go.aps.org/4ikEbto

All physics disciplines connect at #APSSummit27. 🌟 Let your research shine bright on the largest APS stage. Abstracts are due Oct. 22, just one week away. Submit today.

Congratulations again to Francis Halzen, winner of the 2026 @NobelPrize in Physics. Physical Review Letters published two key IceCube Collaboration studies behind this prize. Swipe through 15 years of #NobelPrize-winning research that appeared in PRL.

In Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, researchers induce and measure “beam-beam crabbing,” when one colliding proton beam subtly tilts the other — an important effect for high-luminosity beam control at the Large Hadron Collider. Read the study: https://go.aps.org/4s5qdyQ

Winning a @NobelPrize comes with some serious bragging rights — and a $1 million prize. We asked #APSSummit26 attendees what they’d do with it. Drop your answers below. #NobelPrize

🎉 Congrats to our new class of APS Fellows. They’ve been recognized by their peers for exceptional contributions to #research, #education, #leadership, and public #service. Learn more about them: https://go.aps.org/4n2ksOe

Congratulations to Henri B. Kagan and Kensō Soai, the laureates of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry! They are sharing the award equally for their work on designing reactions that selectively form only one enantiomer of a chiral molecule. Read the ACS press release: www.acs.org/pressroom/ne...

Congratulations to Francis Halzen, winner of the 2026 @nobelprize.org in #Physics, for contributions to @icecubeneutrino.bsky.social and the discovery of high-energy cosmic neutrinos. We're proud to have published his winning research in @physrevlett.aps.org. Read it free https://go.aps.org/4AThgg1

From condensed matter to quantum computing, #APSSummit26 attendees shared what physics discipline they think should win a #NobelPrize. What do you hope will take home the top award tomorrow? @nobelprize

One year ago, our members John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis won the 2025 @NobelPrize in #Physics for experiments that revealed quantum tunneling in an electric circuit. The 2026 laureates will be announced next week. Any predictions? #NobelPrize

A new study suggests the gallium anomaly, a neutrino mismatch between experiment and theory, could be solved by more precise calculations of electron-neutrino capture without new physics like sterile neutrinos. Read more in @physrevlett: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/5pvf-mcr1

Congratulations to the recipients of our fall 2026 prizes and awards in the fields of #FluidDynamics, #NuclearPhysics, and #PlasmaPhysics. 🎉 Check out the winners here: https://go.aps.org/4cWGlwr

In 1983, a Soviet computer detected a U.S. nuclear missile launch. Officer Stanislav Petrov had minutes to decide whether the warning was real. He trusted his judgment, avoiding a potential nuclear disaster. Learn what caused the false alarm in #APSNews: https://go.aps.org/4dg9hj9 #PhysicsHistory

⭐ What determines whether a dying star explodes or collapses into a black hole? New simulations of 195 stars suggest that neutrino flavor conversion can predict a star’s fate. Read more in Physical Review D: https://go.aps.org/4jcy9Mv

What can “expert eyes” reveal about a physics department? APS Climate Site Visits bring an outside perspective to help departments, labs, and consortia assess their environment, hear feedback, and identify opportunities for positive change. Learn more: https://go.aps.org/4780UCv

International students are a vital part of the U.S. physics community. But shifting immigration and research policies are making it harder for them to plan their education and careers. Learn what’s at stake, and how physicists can help, in #APSNews: https://go.aps.org/4AExdGW

Scientists have directly observed Kelvin wave turbulence along the core of an air-water vortex in the lab for the first time, confirming theoretical predictions for how energy transfers across scales. Read more in @physrevlett.aps.org: https://go.aps.org/3T0oVbr

“The beauty of biological physics lies in this richness and diversity.” Incoming PRX Life chief editor Ariel Amir talks bacteria, immune-cell swarms, interdisciplinary research, and his vision for the journal in #APSNews: https://go.aps.org/4iBy5FJ

Physics educators: Are you looking to build community and find support throughout your teaching journey? The Physics Teacher Community Guide is here to help. Connect with fellow educators, discover resources, and strengthen your teaching practice: https://go.aps.org/46FHK6T

Connect with your physics community. Explore cross-disciplinary research. Inspire others as a presenter at the world's largest physics conference. Abstracts for #APSSummit27 are due in just one month. Submit today: https://go.aps.org/4roG0Zi

Could spinning stellar-mass #BlackHoles emit a hidden particle signal? 🕳️ Scientists propose "scalar sirens" — persistent emissions of hypothetical particles — as a new way to study the Milky Way's black holes. Read more in @physrevlett.aps.org: https://go.aps.org/4gYf3bg

For international physics students, proposed visa rules could mean added pressure to finish a Ph.D. on a shorter timeline. #APSNews spoke with members of the physics community about what the changes could mean: https://go.aps.org/4yNjtba

A newly discovered double neutron star system passed a test of general relativity. Its short, low-inclination orbit could help astronomers study how it warps spacetime and measure the primary pulsar’s moment of inertia. Read more in @physrevlett.aps.org: https://go.aps.org/4xWM6m7

Physicists know a lot. But what are we surprisingly bad at? 👀 Drop yours below. Bonus points if it’s something you feel like you should be good at. You know, like math.

📣 Thousands of you submitted public comments, and now Congress has delayed implementation of the Office of Management and Budget’s proposed changes to federal grantmaking. But there’s more work to be done. Learn what happens next in #APSNews: https://go.aps.org/3USvPQw

Humans and #AI play chess differently when the tension rises. Researchers mapped the web of attacks and defenses and found that AI sustains complex, highly interconnected positions longer, while humans tend to simplify sooner. Read more in APS Open Science: https://go.aps.org/4dzOVkI

Ants meet head-on on a narrow path. Who turns around? 🐜 A study in Physical Review E shows that when ants meet up while relocating to a new nest, the one bound for the old nest turns back. Game theory suggests this reflects "sampling equilibrium": https://go.aps.org/4iS7zYD

New U.S. visa rules may affect international students, scholars, and the departments that support them. That’s why we’ve created a new toolkit with information and resources on navigating the changes. Check it out: https://go.aps.org/4xQxBjK

Physics sparks connection at #APSSummit27 – across disciplines, across continents, across boundaries. Become a presenter, fuel that spark, and advance the future of physics. 🌟 The call for abstracts, registration, and housing is now open: https://go.aps.org/4xMDmz1

Nominations are open for the inaugural PRX Energy Breakthrough Award. This award honors early-career researchers who have made a substantial breakthrough in renewable and sustainable energy in the past two years. Nominate yourself or a colleague by Oct. 4: https://go.aps.org/4yqnK3M

New in @physrevlett.aps.org: Black hole seeds could have formed during the universe’s “Dark Ages” if gas collapsed directly inside dark matter halos instead of first forming stars — potentially helping explain the abundance of early #SupermassiveBlackHoles. 🔗 https://go.aps.org/4yxgraU

This fall, hundreds of classrooms got hand boilers, infrared thermometers, and volcanic rocks that eat carbon dioxide. It's not a chemistry set, it's this year's free PhysicsQuest kit for teaching climate physics. Read how it came together in #APSNews: https://go.aps.org/4xLt4iA

A new framework maps the collective movement of starfish embryos as topological “flowscapes,” revealing circulating flows, irreversible pathways, and structural transitions that emerge as they self-organize. Read more in @physrevx.aps.org: https://go.aps.org/4r3NH71

Could you build a laser that shoots a high-energy neutrino beam? Two new studies in @physrevlett.aps.org say no. One shows emission can't beat the rate of standard, natural decay; the other finds a Bose-Einstein condensate boost would still fall 16 orders short: https://go.aps.org/4h5RZY3

The results are in! 🎉 Congratulations to our newly elected leaders who will take the helm Jan. 1. Thank you to everyone who voted and to all of the candidates. Meet the winners: https://go.aps.org/4ey5Fau

New U.S. visa rules may affect international students, scholars, and the departments that support them. Join us Sept. 30 from 3 to 4 p.m. ET for a webinar on the new duration of status rule and the resources in available in our policy toolkit: https://go.aps.org/46BITMA

Why does one superhydride outperform its close cousins? A Physical Review B study shows how scandium changes LaSc₂H₂₄’s electronic structure and hydrogen-hydrogen bonds — boosting the interactions that enable superconductivity at high temperatures and pressures: https://go.aps.org/4wYmHqE

We’re excited to share that Ariel Amir has been named chief editor of PRX Life. Ariel is a professor at @WeizmannScience working at the intersection of physics, applied mathematics, and biology to identify the laws that govern living systems:https://go.aps.org/4zOzBud

What happens when you vibrate water covered in Styrofoam beads? In extreme conditions, the beads can behave like molecules in a solidifying glass — or form waves that shove particles aside, opening large cavities. More in Physical Review Fluids: https://go.aps.org/3SIcyAy

This month in #PhysicsHistory: Using Japan's Super-Kamiokande detector, scientists found neutrinos have mass, overturning a longstanding assumption about these “ghost particles.” Read more in #APSNews: https://go.aps.org/4qDbBpD

Julia Phillips was abruptly dismissed from the National Science Board in April, along with every other member. But she’s still fighting for science. She spoke with #APSNews about the stakes for U.S. Science and why we need to act quickly: https://go.aps.org/4xUmKVm