Issues

Subtle shifts over time in historical seism ological data may teach us as much about Earth as the most modern seismograph. Case in point: the recent discovery that Earth's inner core rotates faster than the planet's mantle and crust.

Do electrons in one dimension interact in a way prescribed by the Luttinger‐liquid theory? To answer that question, researchers are studying the tunneling through barriers in one‐dimensional wires and across the edges of fractional quantum Hall states. A Bell Labs group has intriguing new results.

CERN's big electron‐positron collider has finally crossed the energy threshold for producing pairs of the, heavy bosons that mediate the weak force.

Solids fail through the propagation of cracks, whose speed is controlled by instabilities at the smallest scales.

Astronomers have recently found planets orbiting nearby stars, ending centuries of speculation and opening up an exciting, already busy, field of research.

Though Kamerlingh Onnes always stressed the importance of precise measurement in his work, it was an accident that led to the first detection of superconductivity.

A ‘new’ set of lectures—on computation—by one of the more colorful characters in modern physics, gives rise to these reminiscences by an Englishman in Richard's court.