Issues

When electrons are precisely positioned in a region of high electric field, they can pick up a lot of energy in a small space.

Practiced on a lattice instead of paper, the art of cutting, folding, and pasting takes on new scientific significance.

When certain inorganic reactions are confined to a two-dimensional cell, the mineral precipitates conform to a simple geometric model.

Journal websites are now highlighting their articles’ likes, shares, and tweets, but information scientists still aren’t sure what the numbers really mean.

The National Synchrotron Light Source II will produce intense beams to reveal details of complex materials.

As it is doing in so many areas of science, China is racing onto the world stage of underground astroparticle physics.

New supercomputers will allow more detailed simulations for nuclear weapons research and a range of scientific applications.

Because deep water in the Southern Ocean is cold, centuries old, and rich in nutrients, its circulation exerts an outsized influence on Earth’s heat balance, the carbon cycle, and much of ocean biology.

Some 50 years ago, just for fun, I began playing around with different types of particle statistics. Those investigations led to a surprising application.

Living in a middle ground between the light fundamental entities of particle physics and the massive black holes of astrophysics are objects that trap light but don’t obey classical rules.

Particles undergoing Brownian motion move with constant velocity between Brownian kicks. Albert Einstein predicted the velocity distribution, but he wrongly thought his result would never be experimentally confirmed.