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Researchers don’t need to do science engagement alone. Working with professionals makes the job easier and more effective and can lead to better science.
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Even a limited nuclear war could disrupt the climate, ecosystems, and global food supplies. Nuclear strategies and decisions should be required to factor in those potential consequences.
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A dataset of daily ozone concentrations with high spatial resolution enables researchers to identify the reversal.
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Land that has been damaged by the cumulative activity of faults may be more susceptible to geomorphological changes, like landslides.
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By tweaking a standard microscale gyroscope, researchers were able to significantly amplify the signals used to measure rotation.
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When rubber-soled shoes skid on a hardwood floor, slip pulses travel between the two surfaces at high speeds to produce the familiar sound.
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Nuclear winter, climate change, bioterrorism, AI. Those and other threats are growing in potential impact. What can we do?
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The specialized devices are democratizing access to cosmic-ray experiments.
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Europe’s particle physicists choose a 91 km electron–positron collider as the next global flagship project.
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The seasoned high school physics teacher challenges students to engage in an increasingly distracted world.
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Some physicists at the early cyclotrons used their vision to locate high-energy particles. Since then, medical researchers have gained a better understanding of how particles can interact with the human eye.
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The question is attracting attention amid rising energy use by classical computing data centers.
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(8 September 1956 – 27 April 2026)
The physicist was internationally recognized for her work in liquid crystals and liquid crystal–nanoparticle composites.
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To go beyond classical models and tie our understanding of gravity to the quantum world, experiments are needed.
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Coalescing at a relatively low temperature may have helped the moon become the only one in the solar system to develop a magnetic field.
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The first African American physicist to earn a PhD made the best of a difficult career path.
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Apprehension about career pathways and research funding dominated the list of concerns expressed by physics and astronomy undergraduates in a recent survey.