Issues

A newly synthesized mineral is perhaps the most promising material yet to realize a hypothetical state with exotic behavior.

Coordinate transformations and curved spaces, the traditional tools of general relativity, are finding applications in optical engineering.

As National Nuclear Security Administration officials push for a new nuclear bomb, some scientists and arms control experts are asking what’s wrong with the old ones.

With fundamental research in industrial settings long on the decline, researchers inside and outside of Bell Labs wonder how it will fare as part of a new, bigger company.

Deforming thin surfaces creates a rich set of structural and dynamical problems combining physics and geometry.

The once startling idea of a connection between quantum fluctuations and forces has by now been applied throughout physics. Nonetheless, experimentalists and theorists alike still find challenges in the Casimir force.

In this memoir, written in 1983, a contemporary and close friend of Richard Feynman’s recalls the blossoming of Feynman’s genius with vignettes from college, Los Alamos, and afterward.

Why does water fall off a duck’s back but form bridges between grains of sand at the beach? The answer lies in the physics of surface wetting.