Issues

The cycle’s catalytic reactions account for just 1% of the Sun’s energy, but they are the dominant energy producers in heavier stars.

Newly observed molecular consequences of fracturing in an elastic sheet reveal some surprises.

The population of the elusive quasiparticles is nearly twice that of their bright counterparts in a two-dimensional semiconductor.

Although the US has sufficient raw materials, the domestic supply chain to alloy and manufacture rare-earth permanent magnets is almost nonexistent.

A career in technology transfer requires skills in multitasking, communicating, and negotiating; one reward is seeing scientific advances benefit society.

Although targeted actuation of neurons via magnetic fields may benefit neuroscience research and medicine, some approaches have sparked controversy.

Defense projects made the West Coast the promised land for US physicists after World War II—until the projects dried up.

Classical chaos gains some additional degrees of freedom in materials with excitations described by the Dirac equation.

When a water-diluted droplet of American whiskey evaporates, it can leave behind a self-assembled web pattern not found in Scotch or brandy.