Issues

James Peebles developed a mathematical framework that describes how the universe evolved. Decades of empirical evidence later, it still holds up.

By discovering an extrasolar planet orbiting a sunlike star, the laureates helped launch a field that explores a diverse set of worlds and their potential to host life.

The batteries have already powered one revolution in wireless consumer electronics. Now they’re launching a new one in transportation.

Two materials have an unusual electronic band structure that can support fast, low-dissipation electronic transport.

In the fight against climate change, many nations and states have put systems in place to price carbon dioxide emissions. There is no consensus on which of two mechanisms is better.

Better weather predictions and more data on driving could accelerate the widespread deployment of automated and connected vehicles.

Answers to open questions that will be addressed by the ITER experiment should enable the production of fusion energy.

In 1953, as a political battle raged over the US’s nuclear future, the eminent physicist lost a classified document, about the hydrogen bomb, on an overnight train from Philadelphia to Washington, DC.

The magazine marks the centenary of the American Meteorological Society by looking back at how our coverage of meteorology has evolved.

The conditions required for an object to float in a stable orientation sometimes lead to surprising results.