Issues

Optical tweezers have endured as an invaluable laboratory tool for manipulating molecules and other small particles.

The laureates circumvented an intrinsic limitation in laser technology to develop an amplification protocol now found in nearly every high-power, ultrafast system.

The combination of diversification and selection has proved a powerful recipe for creating enzymes and drugs.

A glut of cheap natural gas, coupled with rapid increases in wind energy, is accelerating a decline in the US commercial nuclear industry when carbon-free energy has never been more important.

Safer nuclear reactors or misguided promises? A new facility will put to test the old idea of using external neutrons to power fission.

The gravitational waves accompanying the merger of two massive compact objects encode the distance to the merger without the usual appeal to a hierarchy of length scales.

Wales tends to fall by the wayside in narratives about the history of science, but its stories complicate and enrich our picture of science’s past and future.

A familiar climate anomaly turns out to have a recently recognized relative.

The surface of a pool of water hit by a falling drop acts like an acoustic speaker driven by a pulsating underwater bubble.