The universe is expanding. No one with any expertise in astronomy or physics disagrees with that fact. Likewise, nobody really disagrees that, at some point many billions of years in the future, the ...

Figure 1: Measuring the contraction of single platelets with AFM. Figure 3: Elasticity and adhesion measurement for contracted platelets. According to our measurements, platelets are two orders of ...

Rahul Mandal, the researcher who won TV’s Great British Bake Off last year, is the star of the August 2019 issue of Physics World magazine with a tasty look at the science of baking. Based at the ...

1950–1970 was a true golden age for American science. By any quantitative measure you choose, the size of the scientific enterprise grew exponentially from its founding around 1700 until about 1970.