Issues

When carbon nanotubes are finely dispersed in a compatible copolymer, the material’s conductivity exceeds that of any other elastomer by two orders of magnitude.

Genetic engineering, statistics, and spectroscopy are combined to address a fundamental question in biology.

In at least one respect, adhesives always behave as either viscous liquids or elastic solids, and the boundary between the two regimes is sharp.

ITER and the ILC are the latest in a series of big-ticket science collaborations to fall victim to the US political process.

Some 45 years after the discovery in India of atmospheric neutrinos, a new lab and detector could put the country back on the international neutrino research scene.

Barack Obama responds to the quadrennial Physics Today questionnaire on science policy matters; John McCain declines invitations to participate.

Research in the social sciences and humanities can help scientists and policymakers to better understand the nanotechnology enterprise and to make it more transparent to an enthusiastic but cautious public.

The unprecedented control over the interactions and pairing of ultracold fermionic atoms provides insight into exotic strongly correlated phenomena and illuminates the physics of superfluidity in metals, nuclei, and neutron stars.

A decade before Alan Sokal’s famous hoax was published in Social Text, a thinly veiled spoof was submitted to Physical Review Letters. But in that case the editors gave as good as they got.

Dragonflies have evolved for about 350 million years. What kinds of aerodynamic tricks have they discovered?