Issues

A combination of inexpensive materials collects and concentrates heat from the Sun.

Physics-based information security doesn’t have to involve quantum mechanics.

A model designed to approximate swimming in water accounts surprisingly well for animals’ locomotion in sand.

Increasingly, partnerships ease the way to transfer to universities.

A decade on, the situation portrayed in the influential report of a deteriorating US science and technology ecosystem has, if anything, worsened.

Improvements will require coordination among the US judicial, law enforcement, and scientific communities.

Because the production, behavior, and life span of seawater droplets are complex, measuring and modeling them require a wide range of interdisciplinary techniques.

To mitigate climate change at local, regional, and global scales, we must begin to think beyond greenhouse gases.

As temperatures rise, precipitation patterns change, and land- and sea-ice extents shrink, scientists are learning how the exchanges of carbon between Earth’s atmosphere, ocean, and land ecosystems respond to and feed back on climate change.

All life on Earth is based on amino acids that don’t align with their mirror images. Telescopes looking near the center of our galaxy may reveal the source of that asymmetry.