Issues

How is the firing of individual neurons translated into thought, sensory perception or movement? Physicists are joining the quest for answers.

Neutrinos that have escaped from the hottest cauldrons in the cosmos are being captured in 18 000‐year‐old ice.

Electrons make excellent probes of biological molecules—provided they don't destroy the specimen.

Founded a century ago, the American Physical Society not only has played a leading role in advancing and diffusing knowledge and understanding of physics, but has widened its influence and importance by speaking out on public issues.

Through their public opposition to the nuclear arms race and human rights violations, US physicists have played a pivotal role in setting the national and international political agenda.

Changing styles in high school and college physics texts reveal an evolution in teaching methods, but we can also see signs of the same debates that continue today.