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Physical Review Focus is a free online service that provides brief explanations of selected research papers from APS journals at a level accessible to students and researchers in all fields of physics. The stories are written in the style of a news article, including color images and occasionally related videos. Focus serves as a useful introduction to current research topics.
Recent Physical Review Focus Articles
Self-forming Rings and Cages
Researchers have simulated the formation of complex shapes--less than a half-micron across--formed spontaneously by sheets of polymers in solution.
Landmarks: Laser Cooling of Atoms
Landmarks features an aspect of physics in history.
In the 1970s and 80s, researchers developed techniques for cooling atoms to very low temperatures using laser light. The work led to improvements in atomic clocks and the observation of a new ultracold state of matter.
