Issues

New observations provide the most complete picture yet for the most energetic explosions in the solar system.

Even for light that’s energetic enough to escape the device, destructive interference can get in the way.

The binding energies of nuclei with far too many neutrons reveal new nuclear structure.

A new academic center in New York City joins other efforts to harness data from disparate sources with the goal of improving city life.

Nanoscience may be poised to deliver on its promises of adaptive materials and smart systems in manufacturing, energy, medicine, and more.

The world tour could end in 2014, when NSF pulls support for a program that promotes collaboration between US materials scientists and their international counterparts.

New experimental insights could pave the way for leaner, faster simulations of turbulent fluid flow.

The adaptations of a group of Southern California physicists to the trying conditions of the 1970s anticipated some of the important 21st-century trends in the discipline.

After President Ronald Reagan’s 1983 Star Wars speech, a puzzled group of Soviet scientists asked US colleagues opposed to ballistic-missile defense if they had changed their minds.

With the help of designers and unconventional demonstrations, a group of French condensed-matter physicists set out to engage people who never thought of themselves as interested in science.