On the cover Do you want to inspire younger generations to care about science? Persuade someone to fund your work? Fight the deluge of mis- and disinformation in society? If so, you might consider ...

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

Richard Fitzgerald joined the staff of Physics Today in 1998 as an associate editor and served as the longtime managing editor before becoming Editor-in-Chief in 2022. He earned his bachelor’s in ...

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

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

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

This image shows a faint nebula surrounding a star in the northern constellation Cygnus. Created by amateur Peter Goodhew, it ...

See also the upcoming interview with Jennifer’s pilot husband, Matthew Inman.

New York Times: A long-standing conspiracy theory suggests that the condensation trails that form behind planes as they fly at high altitudes are actually “chemtrails” produced by aircraft spraying ...

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.

Serious public communication blunders by Metropolitan Edison, the power company that owned the infamous nuclear facility, created mistrust and allowed misinformation to flourish. At 10:00am on 29 ...