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 ...

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 ...

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.

On the cover Do you want to inspire younger generations to care about science? Persuade someone to fund your work? Fight the deluge of mis- and disinformation in society? If so, you might consider ...

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 ...

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” ...