Issues

Tin selenide, made of Earth-abundant elements, is a surprise contender in the race for a device to convert waste heat to useful energy.

A process that occurs in Earth’s deserts could also be at work on asteroids.

There’s a need for organic substances that can interface with metal surfaces under harsh laboratory conditions. A class of unusual, reactive molecules just might do the trick.

The research that weapons scientists are allowed to talk about is key to attracting and retaining them at the labs.

Council chair says a new director general, a halving of senior management, and improved relations between headquarters and the project’s seven partners are on the way.

New reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the US government say the window is closing for actions to avert the worst effects of warming.

When weather factors into a legal dispute, meteorologists use eyewitness accounts, troves of atmospheric data, and simulated reenactments to figure out what went awry.

Most meteorologists are really physicists in disguise. They use thermodynamics and hydrodynamics to understand snow squalls in Buffalo and typhoons in Japan.

What began as curious ritual in the ancient world led to studies of surface tension, interface properties, phase transitions, and, eventually, sophisticated deposition techniques and a wealth of devices.

Nuclear magnetic resonance and x-ray imaging combine to offer a powerful tool for identifying liquids in sealed containers.