Issues

Until now, the quintessential demonstration of quantum entanglement has required extra assumptions.

According to the simulations, more than half of the Moon accreted from volatile-poor molten rock that orbited Earth for decades following a giant impact.

The specialized membrane proteins’ function, puzzling in a single bacterial cell, becomes apparent when the cell joins a large colony.

The US global model lags the performance of two European competitors in predicting weather up to two weeks ahead.

On the Zooniverse, data-analysis projects mesh public outreach and scientific discovery.

Cash-strapped physics departments in the island’s main university system cannot hire new researchers to replace the ones that retire or migrate.

Project partners will consider multiple budget scenarios before releasing new estimate.

Inspired by the insights of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, scientists are engineering hydrogels and liquid-crystal-containing polymers that change from flat to curved in response to heat and other stimuli.

Humans have been making glass for more than 3000 years. Despite that long history, new ways to understand the fundamental physics of glasses continue to emerge.

A 1950 grant application that helped launch hydrogen-line radio astronomy provides a model for the clarity, economy, and integrity attainable in such requests.

Experiments that track the radiation emitted by a lone electron orbiting a magnetic field may, in time, reveal the effects of neutrino mass.