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

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

T HE NEUTRON was discovered in 1932. Why, then, did it take seven years before nuclear fission was found? Fission is obviously a striking phenomenon; it results in a large amount of radioactivity of ...

In physics, you learn how to work with incomplete information, question assumptions, develop hypotheses, and keep moving ...

Protective policies, health insurance, and community are all important variables when gender-diverse scientists ask, “Where ...

In 1994, after he had completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, ...

Is there anything you’d like to add? Traveling so much has been very tough for raising a family. Pilots bid for trips and ...

Tested in pigs, a new battery design offers a safer, more reliable alternative to standard power sources for ingestible medical devices. Swallowing a battery typically requires a trip to the emergency ...

Science’s endless frontier is a changing frontier. It requires a dynamic approach to governance, collaboration, and ...

Vodka for sale at a liquor store. Great thinkers in science often become associated with myths about their work and discoveries. Take Isaac Newton. The average person might not be able to recall his ...

In 1794 the London printer J. Cooper published an essay by a woman writing under the name Mrs. Fulhame. Elizabeth Fulhame’s An Essay on Combustion, with a view to a new art of dy[e]ing and painting: ...

The angstrom-scale hexagonal voids in a sheet of graphene resemble the holes in chicken wire. But despite the material’s appearance, studies have shown that defect-free graphene is nearly impermeable.