Issues

Not only do the beams display correlations in their quantum fluctuations, but so do different parts of them when examined separately.

A high-altitude nuclear explosion would swell the radiation belt and imperil the global positioning system and other satellites. VLF transmissions could forestall the damage.

Long predicted but never before seen, the x-ray harbinger let observers record the supernova’s early light in unprecedented detail.

Earth scientists ponder the wisdom of large-scale efforts to counter global warming.

Entrée to Paris got Cécile DeWitt into physics. Working with great physicists kept her in the field.

Visiting physicists and engineers are welcomed in Tehran and carry conciliatory messages from Iranian leaders back to the US.

On Saturn’s hazy moon Titan, torrential downpours of methane punctuate centuries of drought on a landscape of sand dunes and badlands.

Whether a large polymer is linear, simply branched like a star, or multiply branched dramatically affects how it moves through a densely entangled polymer soup

Understanding the complex interactions between pressurized fluids and porous rock is a key prerequisite to the safe sequestration of carbon dioxide and radioactive waste.

An architectural acoustician relies on the physics of sound propagation, material properties, and noise control to craft a desired soundscape.