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 ...

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

J. Robert Oppenheimer, circa 1960. Thomas Kuhn, noted historian and philosopher of science, interviewed J. Robert Oppenheimer as part of a project to document the birth of quantum mechanics. Those ...

Inside certain quantum systems, where randomness was thought to lurk, researchers—after a 40-year journey—have found order and unique wave patterns that stubbornly survive. In a classical chaotic ...

“If two separated bodies, each by itself known maximally, enter a situation in which they influence each other, and separate again, then there occurs regularly that which I have [just] called ...

The Chinese American physicist led groundbreaking experiments that demonstrated parity violation and photon entanglement. Many in the physics community say Wu deserved more accolades in her lifetime.

After some two decades of advances in manufacturing processes, microLEDs have the quality and capabilities necessary for many display applications. When the Nintendo Virtual Boy was released in 1995, ...