Issues

During times of sparse rainfall, many communities rely on pumping from wells to meet their water needs. But do the water reserves recover when the rains return?

Metals aren’t naturally stable in 2D form. But when forced into thin sheets, they exhibit new and unusual properties that researchers are eager to explore.

To learn about the aloof particles’ quantum states, researchers are watching radioactive beryllium, not water.

Worried about brain drain and national security, US ocean scientists say that the antidote is reinvigorating basic research and the country’s research vessels.

The teaching framework she has developed makes students feel at home in physics and prepares them for the workforce.

Senate appropriators object to the president’s assertion that he can dispute individual “emergency” appropriations made by Congress.

NASA is developing multiple technologies for space nuclear power and propulsion to enable a sustained lunar presence and to propel a crewed mission to Mars.

Einstein’s theory makes specific predictions about the nonlinear spacetime oscillations that propagate from merging black holes. Next-generation gravitational-wave detectors should enable researchers to evaluate those predictions.

In the early days of NSF, its leaders dreamed of large-scale federal investment in basic science but had to carve out a place for the new foundation in the complicated landscape of US science funding.

Night-sky contamination is a problem not just in the visible spectrum, and it’s getting worse.