Applying strain to achiral solids containing subunits of opposite chirality can induce controllable handedness.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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