Issues

The newly named Nobelists kept alive work on gallium nitride until their successful innovations paved the way to practical devices.

By manipulating fluorescence, the three prizewinners brought the hidden machinery of living cells into view.

Researchers maintain that excellence in science requires a long-term strategy, money, and closer interactions with the commercial sector.

Nonnuclear states’ patience with weapons states’ inaction on disarmament is wearing thin.

The expansion of the Department of Energy’s high-bandwidth linkage is a step toward a global network for the transfer of scientific information.

From rovers on the surface of Mars to Voyager 1 near the edge of the solar system, spacecraft regularly call home to Earth. For five decades, the Deep Space Network has been at the other end of the line.

The belt emerges as a fundamental climatic feature of atmospheric circulation patterns on a rotating and differentially heated planet. But locating its edges and discerning anthropogenic influences remain difficult research problems.

Integrated circuits with nanomaterial components can revolutionize technology, but only if they can be economically fabricated in large numbers.

The discomforts of noise in working and living can be reduced only by a rational approach to acoustics problems when building houses and factories, writes the technical director of the Acoustics Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A highly deformable elastic sphere may bounce poorly on land, but it will skip spectacularly on water.