June 2018 Issue of Physics Today Is Online & in the Mail
Hua Liu American Astronomical Society (AAS)
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In the June 2018 Issue
The Improbable Clouds at the Edge of the Atmosphere
The combined effects of ozone, sunlight, and atmospheric waves turn the near void of Earth’s mesosphere into a refrigerator capable of producing vast clouds of water ice. — Bodil Karlsson and Theodore G. Shepherd
The Turbulent Formation of Stars
How stars are born from clouds of gas is a rich physics problem whose solution will inform our understanding of not just stars but also planets, galaxies, and the universe itself. — Christoph Federrath
The Discovery of Ovshinsky Switching and Phase-Change Memory
An unusually broad set of experiences helped prepare Stanford Ovshinsky to recognize a phenomenon that forever changed solid-state physics. — Lillian Hoddeson and Peter Garrett
...and much more!