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Cover: Organic LED screens are becoming more prevalent, including in TVs and video game consoles. Those electronics aren’t just better for creating large, curved screens to be shown off at trade shows; they are better for the environment. On page 24, Simon Trudel discusses how using amorphous materials for organic electronics can offer a pathway toward sustainable manufacturing. (Image by Schoening/Alamy Stock Photo.)
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Search and Discovery
Attosecond pioneers win physics Nobel
Through advances in atomic and optical physics, the laureates broke new ground in the measurement of time.
Makers of quantum dots share Nobel Prize in Chemistry
By confining electrons to nanoscale spaces, the laureates created crystals that emit light at specific wavelengths. That behavior has been harnessed for displays and other technologies.
Issues and Events
Precision measurements bring the search for new physics to the table
Targeted small-scale experiments look to find smoking guns—or at least to rule out possibilities.
The Deep Space Network: Overburdened and underfunded
NASA’s worldwide antenna array is bursting at the seams as new missions head into space.
Articles
Sustainable fabrication of organic electronics
Amorphous materials are often an unwanted result of low-temperature thin-film deposition. Yet those disordered materials can be used with great effect for applications with stringent manufacturing requirements.
Artificial photosynthesis: A pathway to solar fuels
Taking inspiration from nature and from the success of photovoltaic solar conversion, scientists are developing foundations for sunlight-driven synthesis of fuels, chemicals, and materials.
Back to the Moon ... to stay?
Despite a lack of public enthusiasm, NASA’s Artemis program will endure because human spaceflight has strong congressional support and signals great-power status.
Books
The elements of scientific style
Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM, Brandon R. Brown
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Obituaries
W. Jason Morgan
Roman Jackiw
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Quick Study
Ceres, a window into how planets could harbor life
Exploration of the large asteroid by NASA’s Dawn mission reveals a puzzling, active, water-rich world.