Issues

Thanks to new electron detectors, cryoelectron microscopy is experiencing a revolution. It can now solve the structures of small biomolecules at high resolution.

At geological pressures and temperatures, xenon can form a host of stable oxides.

The energy distribution of photons produced in a rare neutron-decay mode has now been measured.

Boot camps can help researchers transition into nonacademic jobs that use big data.

The lab wants to build on existing connections with Mexico and Central and South America as it begins to build a flagship neutrino lab.

A telescope’s renovation leads to an outreach reinvention.

Accelerators could replace dangerous cobalt-60 as a sterilization option, but cost may be prohibitive.

The search for the hypothetical state has been a 43-year-long slog, one whose end may now be in sight.

Deeply committed to the cause of Indian independence, Saha occasionally detoured from his physics to conduct a revolutionary mission or pen a populist manifesto.

In the quarter century since the US last exploded a nuclear weapon, an extensive research enterprise has maintained the resources and know-how needed to preserve confidence in the country’s stockpile.

With the help of surveys and statistics, we tried to optimize the order in which we presented astronomy concepts. But students persisted in retaining wrong ideas about them.