Issues

A relativistic phenomenon predicted for highly charged nuclei has been seen in a tabletop experiment.

The more one looks for WIMPs without finding them, the greater are the constraints on supersymmetric extensions of standard particle theory.

An interdisciplinary collaboration integrates physical, acoustic, and biological approaches to the study of birdsong.

Complying with sequestration will entail pay cuts and stalled construction projects and will halt new research programs.

With its strong economy, the country wants to play a bigger role on the world science stage.

Several technologies are aimed at minimizing the cost of removing CO₂ during coal burning. But their deployment will require subsidies or a price on carbon emissions.

In 1963 an MIT meteorologist revealed deterministic predictability to be an illusion and gave birth to a field that still thrives.

Bohr’s atomic theory was addressed as much to chemical problems as to physical ones. But the great scientist’s intent to establish a new framework for atomic and molecular chemistry was less successful, and was unacknowledged by most chemists.

As our electrical grid systems become smarter and more autonomous, they require greater control technologies to protect them from failing.

Antarctica’s Dome A region is an excellent site for housing telescopes that look at terahertz radiation. But getting the telescopes down to the continent and maintaining them once they’re in place is a challenge.