Issues

David Wineland used light to manipulate trapped atoms, and Serge Haroche used atoms to manipulate trapped light.

The 2004 “discovery” experiment was long thought to be immune to elastic artifacts. But a careful repetition shows that it wasn’t.

In September universities in the Chinese territory switched from three-year, English-style degree programs to four-year, US-style degree programs.

Autonomous vehicles offer budget savings and can free up manned ships for other duties, US Navy officials say.

Research at neighboring Earth sciences institutes is expected to feed into NOAA’s new Center for Weather and Climate Prediction.

Advances in detector technology, in concert with new synchrotron sources, x-ray optics, and computational methods, are opening new ways to probe the structure and dynamics of matter.

A decades-old technology for producing low-level electric current has experienced a recent resurgence in interest and potential applications.

Physicists who work at startup companies create and improve marketable technologies. But their goals are not always aligned with those of the funders who pay the bills.

Penetrating particles created in the atmosphere reveal internal volcanic structures in much the same way that x rays image internal tissue and bones.