Issues

The low-energy neutrinos are byproducts of the first reaction in a chain that generates 99% of the Sun’s energy.

Investigating Jupiter’s enigmatic moon requires revisiting images more than a decade old. A new result suggests they haven’t yet given up all their secrets.

Diffraction experiments reveal hidden order inside a spinning superfluid.

A novel fracture mechanism sets new limits for thin-film stability.

Quantitative methods and modeling complement the work of biologists and oncologists. But US money for innovative centers supporting that research has run out.

Winning contracts and sending products to market are the measures of success in the German organization’s not-for-profit research model.

Commercial uses of tiny satellites may realize the 1990s NASA mantra “faster, better, cheaper.”

It’s likely that our Moon emerged from a giant collision between Earth and a body the size of Mars. But getting that story, or any other, to fully square with the evidence has proven difficult.

The crack patterns in dried mud, permafrost, and lava columns exhibit subtle variations on simple physics.

Already in Faraday’s electrotonic state and Maxwell’s vector potential, gauge freedom was an unavoidable presence. Converting that presence to the symmetry principle that underpins our successful standard model is a story worth telling.

You can’t beat the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, but you can engineer systems so that most of the uncertainty is in the variable of your choice. Doing so can improve the precision of delicate measurements.