Issues

The prize comes in the wake of the much anticipated discovery of the spinless fundamental particle their theoretical work predicted half a century ago.

Experiments alone aren’t always enough to understand why proteins and other large molecules do what they do.

New experimental findings bolster a controversial theory of supercooled water.

Animal and digital systems figure in international and interdisciplinary research on the brain.

Advanced imaging and electrophysiological tools bolster neuropsychological and behavioral studies as scientists work to crack the mysteries of traumatic head injury.

Sino-US cooperation could stretch budgets and benefit both countries in space science and human flight.

Administration officials say refurbishing the B-61 will permit the retirement of the only other bomb in the stockpile.

Experimentalists and theorists are still celebrating the Nobel-worthy discovery of the Higgs boson that was announced in July 2012 at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Now they are working on the profound implications of that discovery.

In 10 years, research can take many twists and turns—or not. Here’s a sampling.

The scientist-philosopher’s critique of Newtonian mechanics was informed, in part, by a startling phenomenon he experienced as the train he was riding negotiated a sharp bend.

The standard model predicts the electron magnetic moment to an astonishing accuracy of one part in a trillion.