Issues

Although it’s now relatively stable, the immense ice sheet was sensitive to climate fluctuations millions of years ago.

The new, faster path to condensation could vastly speed up some quantum experiments.

A simple physical phenomenon underlies the complex organization of some biological systems.

Climate skepticism, budget cuts, and regulatory rollbacks dominated the federal scientific landscape during the first year of his administration.

The finalists face long odds to land a rover on the Moon in time to claim the $20 million grand prize.

Surface molecular structure is the arbiter in the contest between energy and entropy that largely determines how ice and snow crystals develop.

To the extent that individuals interact with each other in prescribed ways, their collective social behavior can be modeled and analyzed.

The half-century-old handbook commonly known as Abramowitz and Stegun enters the 21st century.

Interference much like that observed in two-slit experiments can be seen in the outcomes of chemical processes in which multiple reaction mechanisms lead to the same final state.