Issues

The new spectroscopy of exotic hadrons, promised by last year’s discovery of the first baryon that defies description by three quarks, appears to be thriving.

Measurements of the stability of laminar flow bring us closer to answering one of the biggest outstanding questions in fluid mechanics.

A recent analysis of more than a century’s worth of data forebodes severe losses of coastal land.

If tombs are discovered in the Pyramid of the Sun, they could shed light on the governing style in the ancient city of Teotihuacan, Mexico.

Doubling the NSF budget in five years remains just a hope. Efforts by the science community to boost funding for the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science generated enthusiasm, but little money.

After certain cellular polymers are internally charged, they behave like soft and sensitive piezoelectrics that can be used to interconvert acoustical or mechanical signals and electrical signals.

Quantum chromodynamics is the elegant but notoriously intractable theory of the strong interactions. Recent advances in numerical computer simulation are beginning to reveal, in impressive detail, what the theory predicts.

Arguably the greatest Soviet theoretical physicist of the 20th century, Landau is intimately seen through the eyes of his loving niece in these excerpts from her memoir.

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