Issues

The behavior of strongly interacting degenerate Fermi gases may hold clues to the universal behavior of many-body systems.

Solubility measurements of carbon in olivine confirm a widely held belief that most carbon is stored in other, less abundant minerals.

Observations of high-redshift galaxies offered a surprise six years ago and presented a riddle that may have been solved only this past summer.

Ligand-coated droplets of oil can travel through the bloodstream to attach themselves to malignant cells.

Name a member of the National Academy of Engineering who is a physicist and a lawyer, but not an engineer. Try Richard Meserve, whose illustrious and varied career attests to the success of marrying different disciplines.

With some international guidance, African and Middle Eastern scientists are learning how to influence government policy.

That early American prototype of a civic scientist would probably address many of today’s concerns with wisdom, practicality, and a deep sense of civic responsibility.

Collisions between high-energy beams of gold nuclei are providing glimpses of hot, dense states of matter reminiscent of the Big Bang.

For 50 years, astronomers have debated, Should large optical telescopes be under the auspices of national centers, or should access to them be controlled by a “benevolent dictatorship of the elite?”