What’s that noise? By analyzing audio recordings of cicadas at two sites near Bangalore, India, a Physical Review E study finds that their collective song reaches its peak when light intensity is around 5 lumens and is delayed on cloudy days. Read the study here:

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To mark the transition of American Physical Society’ Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (@APS_DSNP) to a Division, this editorial details the core aspects of #StatisticalPhysics and #NonlinearPhysics and its role in emerging research areas. 🔗 go.aps.org/3Ji9oyg

An extension of a consumer-resource dynamics model employs dynamical mean field theory to study intraspecific suppression, showing how it can foster #biodiversity via self-regulation — preventing dominant species and allowing more species to coexist. 🔗 go.aps.org/45uuXoa

The call for dissertation award is closing soon: a wonderful opportunity for ECRs that recognizes exceptional research and comes with registration waiver to attend next #APSMarch meeting and a cash award! Details 👇

Scientists reviewed measurements from monitoring stations and instruments from around the world to document the global climate system in their 2024 annual report. pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/o…

Join our panel discussion "Applying for PhD positions in soft matter physics" on October 9th at 12 pm ET! Learn about how to find a program/advisor, get good recommendation letters, and craft a compelling application for graduate school. apsphysics.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses radar data to predict wave motion in rough seas a few minutes in advance. The problem is challenging because big nearby waves block the view and because big waves are nonlinear. go.aps.org/3VSANKe

📌 Join us for the next klogW seminar on October 21st at 12PM EST (register below) by Erwin Frey on "Emergence and Self-organization in Biological Systems". Registration link: apsphysics.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Join us at the Global Physics Summit of the American Physical Society in Denver on March 15-20, 2026! Submit your work to our session on the statistical physics of networks by October 23rd! @APS_DSNP Guido Caldarelli 贵多 Michelle Girvan Filippo Radicchi

A neural network framework that incorporates long-range interactions into machine-learning interatomic potentials opens up the possibility of capturing physics in ionic fluids, interfaces, ferroelectric materials, and biological systems go.aps.org/49luhn7

Numerical analysis of a hydrodynamic model for a renewable active actomyosin elastomer made of two myosin species shows how contractile species with higher activity levels can cluster and collapse into singular structures. Read the paper: go.aps.org/43BrcM1

By analyzing anomalous protein assemblies, researchers uncovered a series of shells with octagonal quasicrystalline local order and proposed structural models for previously identified as well as yet-to-be-discovered protein shells. Read more: go.aps.org/47nl0K8

Active persistent dynamics are shown to mimic some aspects of Hebbian unlearning — suggesting that nonequilibrium dynamics can provide an alternative way to improve associative recall in #NeuralNetwork models. #MLSBCollection go.aps.org/49O1yHO

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