Opinion: That’s Not Physics
Where do the boundaries of physics begin and end? The debate has persisted for more than a century. |
Opinion: The Steep Price of Free Science Access
Governments and funding agencies have promised the public unfettered open access to research. Scientists could foot the bill. |
Opinion: Physics Needs Community Colleges
Two-year colleges help millions and boost the U.S. workforce. We neglect them at our peril. |
Opinion: To Do Better Science, Try Dance
How growth in the arts made me a better science communicator and engineer. |
Opinion: The Extraordinary Life and Science of Hilde Levi
Levi, a Jewish German-Danish physicist, escaped the Nazis in the 1930s. In the decades after, she built a diverse career that spanned from biophysics to radioactivity safety. |
Opinion: The Rise of the Data Physicist
In the search for new physics, a new kind of scientist is bridging the gap between theory and experiment. |
Opinion: Climate Doomism Disregards the Science
Climate change is a highway, not a cliff, and we can still take the exit ramp. |
Opinion: Is Climate Science Physics?
How we answer this question can help determine who understands, and who enters, the field. |
Opinion: The World is Coming for US Science Talent
Science’s best and brightest must jump through hoops to study and work in the United States. Without common-sense immigration reform, they will look elsewhere — and the US will lose out. |
Letter to the Editor: 2022 Nobel Laureates
The 2022 Nobel Laureates in physics. |
Letter to the Editor: The Uses of Superconductors Today
The uses of superconductors today. |
Opinion: It’s Time to Rethink Alcohol at Work Events
Drinking in professional settings comes with risks and can alienate colleagues. There are better ways for physicists to socialize. |
Opinion: Canary in the Coal Mine: The 1997 Leak at Brookhaven National Laboratory
A harmless leak at a national lab 26 years ago — and the resulting public backlash — holds important lessons for combating misinformation today. |
Letter to the Editor
Acknowledging the limits and achievements of science. |
Opinion: Biological Physics Comes of Age
Once an awkward confrontation between disciplines, biological physics is having its moment — and showing that life is not just a mess. |
Opinion: What Can U.S. Scientists Do to Help Their Ukrainian Peers?
Raymond Orbach shares his experience getting funding to physicists in Ukraine. |
Opinion: Taking the “Childlike” Out of Childlike Wonder
Kids are natural scientists. Why aren’t more adults? |
The Back Page: To Save Science, Talk With the Public
Public engagement — in schools, with journalists, and beyond — can safeguard science. But academia’s indifference is standing in the way. |
Letter to the Editor
A reader recounts his battle with freshman physics at Caltech. |
The Back Page: Graduate Students Should Be Paid Living Wages
To invest in science, we need to invest in tomorrow’s scientists. Let’s start by paying them wages that meet the cost of living. |
The Back Page: How Newton Derived the Shape of Earth
To argue for universal gravitation, Newton had to become a “geodesist.” |
The Back Page
Scientists Don’t Succeed in a Vacuum. Why Expect This of Graduate Students? |
The Back Page
Teachers Have Great Careers. People Think Otherwise Because of Bad Data. |
Letter to the Editor: First Woman to Race in the Indy 500
First Woman to Race in the Indy 500 |
The Back Page
What We Miss When We Focus on Physics "Talent" |
The Back Page
Physics in a Diverse World—or, a Spherical Cow Model of Physics Talent |
The APS Ethics Committee’s Work in 2021
What the committee has accomplished, and what remains. |
International Teaching Can Transform Physics
Dr. Nahar planned what she thought would be a small online class. Students from four continents logged on. |
The Back Page
Productive Scientific Discourse Demands Respect |
