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Freed from the textbook symmetry between transmission and reception, the device could be a boon to communications.

An antineutrino experiment highlights puzzling discrepancies between measurements and theoretical models.

By finding a way to reduce decoherence in relatively dense collections of tiny molecular magnets, researchers have renewed interest in such quantum systems.

A Virginia city that owes its livelihood to the sea is in danger of being engulfed by it.

The latest road map is intended to sustain the region’s leadership in many areas of science.

For several decades the character and culture of large-scale research at major facilities has been changing. Big Science isn’t what it used to be.

As the public attained a heightened awareness of the risks associated with 1970s-era medical technologies, it increasingly perceived nuclear-powered artificial hearts as too dangerous to support.

A series of interviews with undergraduates yields some surprising insights into how the students come to think of themselves as physicists.

Determining the health effects of inhaled nanoparticles is an important research program in occupational hygiene. Vital to that effort is a physical understanding of how those particles are transported in the lungs.