NASA has given its three-decade-old astronomy search engine an upgrade by building it out into a more comprehensive tool ...

Spinning cell samples around to simulate a low-gravity environment yields new insights into gravity’s role in the cell.

As global demand for powerful magnets swells and tensions with China fester, Western countries are renewing efforts to ...

Applying strain to achiral solids containing subunits of opposite chirality can induce controllable handedness.

Since 2008, more than 100 colleges and universities in the US have stopped offering an undergraduate physics major. What ...

The thermodynamic and quantum mechanical properties of topological insulators provide a path toward scalable energy storage ...

An exceptionally long, thin cloud appears for a few hours each morning during Mars’s dusty season. Models of the atmosphere ...

This issue of PT explores the relationships and larger forces that help forge the professional paths of scientists. Drawing ...

A tiny levitating bead records the kicks delivered by impacts from individual gas atoms. Its jitters could become the basis for precision measurements—and searches for dark matter.

On the cover Our eighth annual careers issue explores the relationships and larger forces that help scientists forge their professional paths. Relationships nurtured through networking have an outsize ...