An exceptionally long, thin cloud appears for a few hours each morning during Mars’s dusty season. Models of the atmosphere ...

Since 2008, more than 100 colleges and universities in the US have stopped offering an undergraduate physics major. What ...

This issue of PT explores the relationships and larger forces that help forge the professional paths of scientists. Drawing ...

The thermodynamic and quantum mechanical properties of topological insulators provide a path toward scalable energy storage ...

A tiny levitating bead records the kicks delivered by impacts from individual gas atoms. Its jitters could become the basis for precision measurements—and searches for dark matter.

In physics, you learn how to work with incomplete information, question assumptions, develop hypotheses, and keep moving ...

In 1994, after he had completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, ...

T HE NEUTRON was discovered in 1932. Why, then, did it take seven years before nuclear fission was found? Fission is obviously a striking phenomenon; it results in a large amount of radioactivity of ...

I N THE LONG HISTORY of scientific investigation of musical instruments the flute has been given particular attention, primarily because of its apparent simplicity. Yet many of the physical factors ...

In 1794 the London printer J. Cooper published an essay by a woman writing under the name Mrs. Fulhame. Elizabeth Fulhame’s An Essay on Combustion, with a view to a new art of dy[e]ing and painting: ...

One hundred years ago this month, as bitter war raged throughout Europe, 37-year-old Albert Einstein presented the paper “Kosmologische Betrachtungen zur allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie” ...

New York Times: A long-standing conspiracy theory suggests that the condensation trails that form behind planes as they fly at high altitudes are actually “chemtrails” produced by aircraft spraying ...