November 2017 Issue of Physics Today Is Online & in the Mail
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In the November 2017 Issue
The Relentless Pursuit of Hypersonic Flight
How much new science will it take to design a vehicle that can routinely fly at many times the speed of sound? — Ivett A. Leyva
Preparing Physics Students for 21st-Century Careers
Whether they end up in industrial, governmental, business, or academic settings, college graduates need plenty of skills beyond an ability to solve problem sets. — Laurie McNeil and Paula Heron
In Celebration of Ilya Lifshitz
This year marks the centenary of the birth of Ilya Mikhailovich Lifshitz, who helped found the field of fermiology and made important contributions to condensed-matter physics and biophysics. — Alexander Y. Grosberg, Bertrand Halperin, and John Singleton
...and much more!