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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 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: ...

One hundred years ago this month, as bitter war raged throughout Europe, 37-year-old Albert Einstein presented the paper “Kosmologische Betrachtungen zur allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie” ...

In the August issue of Physics Today, climate scientists Toby Ault and Scott St. George share a pair of startling research findings. Between roughly 800 and 1500 CE, the American West suffered a ...

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 ...