Issues

Considerations of perception illuminate and reconcile the issue that divides theorist and experimentalist in science, rationalist and empiricist in philosophy, and “airies” and “earthies” in general.

The 16 new elements added to the periodic table beyond uranium not only have contributed to our understanding of nuclear and atomic physics, but some have practical uses as well.

Free‐electron lasers and cyclotron‐resonance masers show considerable promise for producing previously unattainable levels of power at wavelengths ranging from millimeters to the ultraviolet.

By inserting layers of guest molecules into anisotropic materials such as graphite, materials scientists are producing compounds with controlled electronic, magnetic, structural and thermal properties.