Physics Today

Article	Citations
Record-setting cosmic neutrino breaks in a new telescope	50
Major climate change indicators broke records in 2024	45
The standard model for beginners	40
Understanding the Mayans on their own terms	32
Sustainable fabrication of organic electronics	27
Frequency-dependent squeezing makes LIGO even more sensitive	24
How stars shape galaxies	21
Branched flow	20
Elementary, my dear physicists!	19
More on William Fowler	18
Commentary: A physicist’s perspective on COVID-19	17
Consulting can be stimulating and lucrative for physicists	16
Addressing the quantum measurement problem	16
Why insects orbit light at night	16
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and nanoscience	15
John Edward Harries	15
Malaysian physics and the maker ethos	15
Embracing imperfection for quantum technologies	13
Ethics in physics: The need for culture change	13
Commentary: Thinking of moving from academia into industry? Here are some things to consider	12
Urgent measures are needed to shore up NIST’s crumbling facilities	12
Physics and poetry revisited	12
Engineering better science education	11
Climate change is redefining Arctic wildfires	11
New books & media	10

Eugene Newman Parker	10
Atmospheric rivers bring anomalously high temperatures	9
A clash of cosmologists	9
New books & media	9
Sand and mucus: A toolbox for animal survival	9
Arthur Compton and the mysteries of light	9
Faculty interviews—traps and tips	8
Q&A: Marty Baylor enhances students’ skills and their sense of belonging as physicists	8
Thoroughly modern Millie	8
Physics and poetry revisited	8
Nineteenth-century women and physics across the pond	8
Comments on “Careers by the numbers”	8
Quantifying and mimicking life	7
The roles of research and “fit” in tenure	6
3-2-1 Contact: Scientists at the writers’ table	6
FYI science policy briefs	6
Twisted liquid crystal	6
Kyozi Kawasaki	6
Lawrence Livermore achieves a burning plasma in the lab	6
Commentary: Teaching quantum concepts	6
State anti-DEI laws sow uncertainty in public colleges and universities	6
Nanoprinting low-temperature glass	6
Idaho project tests the limits of DOE aid to advanced reactors	6
Europe’s particle-physics community weighs its next collider	5
New books & media	5
The universe at your fingertips	5
What makes a big cat roar?	5
Reconsidering tenure	5
Our quantum world	5
Heliocentrism before Copernicus	5
NASA urged to boost R&D at expense of near-term missions	5
Water’s hydrogen bonds are seen like never before	5
The two cultures, revisited	5
The promises and perils of a mid-career pivot	4
Translating scientific papers for the public	4
How a mineral that’s always wet gets wetter	4
Q&A: Engineer Stewart Isaacs seeks equitable climate change solutions	4
Nineteenth-century women and physics across the pond	4
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation	4
FYI science policy briefs	4
The ingredients for an unbeatable squash shot	4
Light-driven spin chemistry for quantum information science	4
Fermilab goes deep to silence noisy radiation affecting qubits	4
Gravitational patterns reveal a tumultuous lunar past	4
When your academic ladder is longer	4
To rule the waves	4
The roar of a rocket	4
Metamaterial device makes 16 polarization measurements at once	4
Multidimensional measurements	4
A right-handed molecule is coaxed to behave like a left-handed one	4

Physics … is for girls?	4
Solar energy considerations	4
A meticulous thermodynamic recipe for cooking eggs	4
More machine than human?	3
Judith Lynn Pipher	3
FYI science policy briefs	3
Blu-ray microscope with blood-cell lens	3
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation	3
A wandering vortex	3
Laudable lectures	3
Krypton isotopes tell the early story of Earth’s life-giving elements	3
Why did the Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor close?	3
Observing interstellar molecular hydrogen	3
Perforating gold can make it stronger	3
Thomas Ferbel	3
Up-conversion nanoparticles measure medium-sized forces in hard-to-reach places	3
More on the quantum measurement problem	3
X-ray imaging shows how a 17th-century painting lost its color	3
Supporting emerging astronomers across Africa	3
Thermodynamics of the climate system	3
How a cloud of insects is (and isn’t) like a magnet	3
Matter–antimatter asymmetry is observed in baryon decay	3
A. V. Hill: The man behind the initials	3
Roman Jackiw and the chiral anomaly	3
Time-reversed laser absorbs nearly all light	3
The behavior of thin curved sheets is ironed out	3
A new route to synthetic diamond	3
When unmixable metals mix	3
The early universe in a quantum gas	3
Groundwater flows deep under Antarctic ice	2
Fast-drying cracks	2
The rapid acidification of sea spray aerosols	2
Another Fowler	2
A sprinkling of scientists prioritizes behaviors to counter climate change	2
A synthesis of physical connectedness	2
New books & media	2
Hubble has more time	2
Longitudinal study tracks why undergrads stick with or leave physics	2
Synthetic dimensions	2
Commentary: Researching around Europe: A personal reflection	2
Where physics students find community	2
Battling Decoherence: The Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer	2
Japan accelerator pursues nanobeams to boost luminosity	2
Arecibo STEM educational center to open soon	2
Comments on early space controversies	2
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors	2
Research space increases at US universities	2
Quantum materials out of equilibrium	2
Precision measurements bring the search for new physics to the table	2
Climate modeling innovators are honored with half the physics Nobel	2
Superdeterministic loophole	2
A stormy life in atmospheric science	2
Pre-satellite weather balloons	2
Climate change drives extinction—and always has	2
The successes and challenges of US–Soviet scientific communication	2
Geologic evidence that volcanic lightning promotes life on Earth	2
Q&A: Hyejin Youn applies statistical physics to human behavior	2
Yamilée Toussaint sparks girls’ interest in STEM through dance	2
Early debates in space science	2
James Burkett Hartle	2
Randomness unbound	2
Butterfly effects	2
With no end in sight for the war in Ukraine, CERN ceases cooperation with Russia	2
New books & media	2
Searching for religion in the laboratory	2
Code changes could drastically reduce bitcoin’s enormous electricity requirements	2
Water makes its mark on GPS signals	2
More on the quantum measurement problem	2
CO2 pipelines: A way forward?	2
Putting microLED technology on display	2
New books & media	2
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and nanoscience	2
ITER’s net loss	2
Fanning flames	2
Seismic data provide a deep dive into groundwater health	2
Nonlinear optical computing doesn’t need nonlinear optics	2
Building on Mars with human blood and urine	1
When tenure fails	1
Stepping into NSF	1
Structures like Möbius strips	1

Building with liquid blocks	1
Io was always extremely volcanic, evidence indicates	1
A journey to touch the Sun	1
Artificial hands make lifelike movements	1
US research enterprise seeks to retain leadership while upping security	1
Mauna Loa awakens	1
NSF and postwar US science	1
The weak mixing angle	1
A star’s demise is connected to a neutrino outburst	1
Iron-based superconductors: Teenage, complex, challenging	1
Robert Floyd Curl Jr	1
Portraits of dismissed scientists personalize US government cuts to science	1
Scientists drill for oldest ice to reveal secrets about Earth’s climate	1
Comments on early space controversies	1
Commentary: How to talk about climate change with politicians	1
Measurements of sea-level rise from melting ice get even more accurate	1
The clean-energy challenge	1
Illuminating atmospheric aerosols	1
Q&A: Frank Close probes quarks and popularizes science	1
Putting holes in a sail to reach the stars	1
Physics Nobel honors foundational quantum entanglement experiments	1
When learning physics mirrors doing physics	1
How did Mars lose its atmosphere and water?	1
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors	1
Wu, Shaknov, and the EPR dilemma	1
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors	1
Elusive helium stars identified in archival data	1
Diamond’s sparkle is in more than gemstones	1
Another way to define physics	1
Commentary: Breaking the spell of scientific isolation in the developing world	1
Some remarks about Rutherford	1
Constructing DNA, once again	1
Sea changes for scientific ocean drilling	1
Quantum states can be scrambled extremely quickly	1
UNESCO details the STEM gender gap and efforts to close it	1
Listening to the seafloor with optical fibers	1
Squaring the quantum computing circle	1
Demands on early-career faculty	1
Living chiral crystals	1
Deep convection drives oceanic overturning	1
FYI science policy briefs	1
Contributions to computed tomography	1
Engineering better science education	1
Celebrating Emmy Noether	1
A timely retrospective	1
The Hund-metal path to strong electronic correlations	1
A laser selectively kicks carbon out of a foil	1
Q&A: Tareq Abu Hamed champions environmental cooperation in the Middle East	1
Paul Langevin, U-boats, and ultrasonics	1
The clean-energy challenge redux	1
Revisiting science and colonialism	1
The tsunami triggered by the Chicxulub impact	1
Focus on test, measurement, quantum metrology, spectroscopy, and spectrometry	1
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation	1
Michael Ellis Fisher	1
More on nuclear treaties	1
New books & media	1
Diamond-defect clusters are measured with speed and precision	1
New books & media	1
Einstein would be doubly amazed	1
Slow solar wind traced to Sun’s active regions	1
A forgotten trailblazer	1
Stories from the early days of quantum mechanics	1
W. Jason Morgan	1
Isamu Akasaki	1
Frictional flow patterns	1
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and photonics	1
A climatologist’s introduction to data analysis tools	1
A series of paradigm shifts	1
Stacked materials build up massive electrons	1
Quantum quibble	1
Giant telescopes take small but significant steps toward realization	1
An introductory astronomy textbook for majors	1
What’s old is new in DOE’s choice of fusion hopefuls	1
Young physicists excited to network through the International Association of Physics Students	1
Mavericks who failed	1
FYI science policy briefs	1
Supply-chain issues compound research slowdowns	1
Correction	1
Firearms forensics is becoming more quantitative	1
Jamming connects granulation and flow	1
Solving quantum chemistry problems on quantum computers	1
Q&A: Xiaoxing Xi on the wrongful arrest that upended his research and his life	1
Attosecond pioneers win physics Nobel	1
No uncertain terms	1
Role-playing the life of a scientist	1
Nuclear surveillance from space	1
Aga sagas	1
The subtle math of a heartbeat gone wrong	1
Correction	1
Spacetime, essentially	1
Political currents	1
The complexities of the human placenta	1
More on being a physicist in industry	1
Particle physicist Carolina Deluca retools when she needs to	1