Issues

Its proximity exposes details that call the standard theory of such celestial outbursts into question.

The ability to probe phonon–surface scattering could help elucidate the curious thermal behavior of some nanostructured materials.

Analyzing changes in direction in stochastic trajectories can offer valuable insights.

Regulatory uncertainties and an incomplete design are cited in a new review of the US contribution to the seven-party project.

A private database in the US invites nanomaterials manufacturers to volunteer their data; similar measures in Europe want that reporting to be mandatory.

Malignant cells in the blood can be a valuable source of information in the fight against cancer. But detecting and isolating them is a technical challenge.

Stochastic fluctuations in the expression of genes allow a cell to exhibit a kind of free will.

In a time of political turmoil, two Argentine physicists developed a key technique for making sense of quantum field theories.

Light with orbital angular momentum will undergo a frequency shift when it bounces off a rotating object.