This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of ...

Led by the University of Texas at Austin, eight of the top ten, and 14 of the top 20 institutions for total National Science Foundation funding are public universities.

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

“Today’s disruptions demand fresh documentation,” said Trevor Owens, AIP’s Chief Research Officer. “To meet that need, we are ...

After more than 25 years of experience in condensed matter physics, as a student, researcher and in high-ranking executive ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic world of quantum mechanics a century ago, they weren't trying to build ...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences has gone in this eighteenth edition to physicists Allan MacDonald (The University of Texas at Austin) and Pablo ...

The Committee on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in space life and physical sciences with the research ...

A new type of synthetic skin that can change both its texture and colour is presented in Nature. This technology could have future applications in camouflage, soft robotics, and advanced display ...

If you want to know what’s causing climate change and how it affects where you live, don’t turn to the Environmental Protection Agency for answers. The government agency purged basic facts about ...

Ryan Summers receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is affiliated with the Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE), NARST, ...

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage research. In December 1947, three physicists at Bell Telephone ...