Physics Today

Article	Citations
John Edward Harries	47
Malaysian physics and the maker ethos	41
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and nanoscience	32
Climate change is redefining Arctic wildfires	27
Engineering better science education	24
Eugene Newman Parker	21
New books & media	21
A clash of cosmologists	19
Embracing imperfection for quantum technologies	17
Commentary: Thinking of moving from academia into industry? Here are some things to consider	17
Ethics in physics: The need for culture change	16
Branched flow	16
Physics and poetry revisited	16
Urgent measures are needed to shore up NIST’s crumbling facilities	16
Elementary, my dear physicists!	15
Commentary: A physicist’s perspective on COVID-19	15
More on William Fowler	15
Consulting can be stimulating and lucrative for physicists	14
Why insects orbit light at night	13
Major climate change indicators broke records in 2024	12
Record-setting cosmic neutrino breaks in a new telescope	12
Understanding the Mayans on their own terms	11
The standard model for beginners	11
Sustainable fabrication of organic electronics	10
Addressing the quantum measurement problem	9

How stars shape galaxies	9
Arthur Compton and the mysteries of light	9
Frequency-dependent squeezing makes LIGO even more sensitive	9
Comments on “Careers by the numbers”	8
Atmospheric rivers bring anomalously high temperatures	8
Physics and poetry revisited	8
New books & media	8
Sand and mucus: A toolbox for animal survival	8
Nineteenth-century women and physics across the pond	7
Q&A: Marty Baylor enhances students’ skills and their sense of belonging as physicists	7
Faculty interviews—traps and tips	7
Thoroughly modern Millie	7
Nanoprinting low-temperature glass	6
Twisted liquid crystal	6
Quantifying and mimicking life	6
Kyozi Kawasaki	6
The roles of research and “fit” in tenure	6
FYI science policy briefs	6
State anti-DEI laws sow uncertainty in public colleges and universities	6
Commentary: Teaching quantum concepts	6
What makes a big cat roar?	5
Europe’s particle-physics community weighs its next collider	5
Fermilab goes deep to silence noisy radiation affecting qubits	5
Gravitational patterns reveal a tumultuous lunar past	5
NASA urged to boost R&D at expense of near-term missions	5
Water’s hydrogen bonds are seen like never before	5
A right-handed molecule is coaxed to behave like a left-handed one	5
A meticulous thermodynamic recipe for cooking eggs	5
Lawrence Livermore achieves a burning plasma in the lab	5
New books & media	5
Reconsidering tenure	5
Q&A: Engineer Stewart Isaacs seeks equitable climate change solutions	5
The two cultures, revisited	4
The roar of a rocket	4
Up-conversion nanoparticles measure medium-sized forces in hard-to-reach places	4
The ingredients for an unbeatable squash shot	4
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation	4
FYI science policy briefs	4
The promises and perils of a mid-career pivot	4
The universe at your fingertips	4
Thermodynamics of the climate system	4
Heliocentrism before Copernicus	4
When your academic ladder is longer	4
To rule the waves	4
Nineteenth-century women and physics across the pond	4
Our quantum world	4
Physics … is for girls?	4
Roman Jackiw and the chiral anomaly	4
Solar energy considerations	4
How a mineral that’s always wet gets wetter	4

Metamaterial device makes 16 polarization measurements at once	4
A new route to synthetic diamond	3
Multidimensional measurements	3
More machine than human?	3
Why did the Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor close?	3
Laudable lectures	3
More on the quantum measurement problem	3
Thomas Ferbel	3
Time-reversed laser absorbs nearly all light	3
X-ray imaging shows how a 17th-century painting lost its color	3
Krypton isotopes tell the early story of Earth’s life-giving elements	3
A wandering vortex	3
FYI science policy briefs	3
Perforating gold can make it stronger	3
Light-driven spin chemistry for quantum information science	3
Observing interstellar molecular hydrogen	3
Synthetic dimensions	3
How a cloud of insects is (and isn’t) like a magnet	3
The behavior of thin curved sheets is ironed out	3
Supporting emerging astronomers across Africa	3
When unmixable metals mix	3
Translating scientific papers for the public	3
Matter–antimatter asymmetry is observed in baryon decay	3
Judith Lynn Pipher	3
The early universe in a quantum gas	3
A. V. Hill: The man behind the initials	3
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation	3
Blu-ray microscope with blood-cell lens	3
New books & media	2
Longitudinal study tracks why undergrads stick with or leave physics	2
Living chiral crystals	2
New books & media	2
Yamilée Toussaint sparks girls’ interest in STEM through dance	2
James Burkett Hartle	2
Climate modeling innovators are honored with half the physics Nobel	2
CO2 pipelines: A way forward?	2
New books & media	2
The successes and challenges of US–Soviet scientific communication	2
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and nanoscience	2
Water makes its mark on GPS signals	2
Randomness unbound	2
A synthesis of physical connectedness	2
Japan accelerator pursues nanobeams to boost luminosity	2
Searching for religion in the laboratory	2
Q&A: Hyejin Youn applies statistical physics to human behavior	2
Hubble has more time	2
With no end in sight for the war in Ukraine, CERN ceases cooperation with Russia	2
Research space increases at US universities	2
Contributions to computed tomography	2
An introductory astronomy textbook for majors	2
Seismic data provide a deep dive into groundwater health	2
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors	2
Commentary: The benefits of being a maverick	2
Climate change drives extinction—and always has	2
Commentary: Researching around Europe: A personal reflection	2
Groundwater flows deep under Antarctic ice	2
Geologic evidence that volcanic lightning promotes life on Earth	2
Precision measurements bring the search for new physics to the table	2
Code changes could drastically reduce bitcoin’s enormous electricity requirements	2
Superdeterministic loophole	2
Nonlinear optical computing doesn’t need nonlinear optics	2
A stormy life in atmospheric science	2
Where physics students find community	2
Pre-satellite weather balloons	2
The rapid acidification of sea spray aerosols	2
Butterfly effects	2
Mavericks who failed	2
Arecibo STEM educational center to open soon	2
Quantum materials out of equilibrium	2
Another Fowler	2
Nuclear surveillance from space	2
Battling Decoherence: The Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer	2
The weak mixing angle	2
ITER’s net loss	2
Fast-drying cracks	2
Putting microLED technology on display	2
Early debates in space science	2
New books & media	2
Fanning flames	2
More on the quantum measurement problem	2

Comments on early space controversies	2
A journey to touch the Sun	1
New books & media	1
Young physicists excited to network through the International Association of Physics Students	1
Comments on early space controversies	1
A proposed solution to arbitrary evaluations	1
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors	1
Supply-chain issues compound research slowdowns	1
Particle physicist Carolina Deluca retools when she needs to	1
Disillusionment with climate models	1
When learning physics mirrors doing physics	1
A laser selectively kicks carbon out of a foil	1
Focusing with a spiral lens	1
Astronomy data in the classroom	1
Building on Mars with human blood and urine	1
Portraits of dismissed scientists personalize US government cuts to science	1
A climatologist’s introduction to data analysis tools	1
How did Mars lose its atmosphere and water?	1
From cracks to atoms and back again	1
Paul Langevin, U-boats, and ultrasonics	1
Diamond-defect clusters are measured with speed and precision	1
Einstein would be doubly amazed	1
What’s old is new in DOE’s choice of fusion hopefuls	1
The tsunami triggered by the Chicxulub impact	1
Demands on early-career faculty	1
The clean-energy challenge	1
Stories from the early days of quantum mechanics	1
Io was always extremely volcanic, evidence indicates	1
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and photonics	1
Q&A: Frank Close probes quarks and popularizes science	1
US research enterprise seeks to retain leadership while upping security	1
Teaching physics with phones: A game changer?	1
Putting holes in a sail to reach the stars	1
Stepping into NSF	1
Robert Floyd Curl Jr	1
Spacetime, essentially	1
Celebrating Emmy Noether	1
Elusive helium stars identified in archival data	1
Comparing clocks by using pulses of light	1
Firearms forensics is becoming more quantitative	1
Scientists drill for oldest ice to reveal secrets about Earth’s climate	1
W. Jason Morgan	1
Correction	1
Gauge invariance applies to statistical mechanics too	1
Jamming connects granulation and flow	1
Diamond’s sparkle is in more than gemstones	1
The insufficient word in Physics Today’s first issue	1
Some remarks about Rutherford	1
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation	1
The complexities of the human placenta	1
Attosecond pioneers win physics Nobel	1
Engineering better science education	1
A timely retrospective	1
UNESCO details the STEM gender gap and efforts to close it	1
Solving quantum chemistry problems on quantum computers	1
Frictional flow patterns	1
Slow solar wind traced to Sun’s active regions	1
NSF and postwar US science	1
Revisiting science and colonialism	1
Illuminating atmospheric aerosols	1
Listening to the seafloor with optical fibers	1
The perfect strike in tenpin bowling	1
Deep convection drives oceanic overturning	1
Sea changes for scientific ocean drilling	1
Physics, AI, and the future of discovery	1
When tenure fails	1
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation	1
FYI science policy briefs	1
Focus on test, measurement, quantum metrology, spectroscopy, and spectrometry	1
Constructing DNA, once again	1
More on being a physicist in industry	1
UK coalition gears up to demonstrate commercial viability of fusion energy	1
FYI science policy briefs	1
Measurements of sea-level rise from melting ice get even more accurate	1
Five decades of missing matter	1
How I learned to stop worrying and love metaphysics	1
The clean-energy challenge redux	1
A forgotten trailblazer	1
Germany’s green transition regains momentum	1
Structures like Möbius strips	1
Scientific progress and preservation clash in demolition of Curie building	1
Iron-based superconductors: Teenage, complex, challenging	1
A star’s demise is connected to a neutrino outburst	1
“My Favorite Things,” physics edition	1
Building with liquid blocks	1
Political currents	1
Another way to define physics	1
Q&A: Tareq Abu Hamed champions environmental cooperation in the Middle East	1
Q&A: Xiaoxing Xi on the wrongful arrest that upended his research and his life	1
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and photonics	1
Commentary: How to talk about climate change with politicians	1
No uncertain terms	1
Stacked materials build up massive electrons	1
Giant telescopes take small but significant steps toward realization	1
The Hund-metal path to strong electronic correlations	1