Physics Today

Article	Citations
John Edward Harries	51
Malaysian physics and the maker ethos	41
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and nanoscience	28
Ethics in physics: The need for culture change	21
Urgent measures are needed to shore up NIST’s crumbling facilities	21
Commentary: Thinking of moving from academia into industry? Here are some things to consider	19
Physics and poetry revisited	18
Engineering better science education	18
Climate change is redefining Arctic wildfires	18
Eugene Newman Parker	17
Record-setting cosmic neutrino breaks in a new telescope	16
A clash of cosmologists	16
New books & media	16
The standard model for beginners	15
Major climate change indicators broke records in 2024	15
Understanding the Mayans on their own terms	14
Frequency-dependent squeezing makes LIGO even more sensitive	13
Sustainable fabrication of organic electronics	13
How stars shape galaxies	12
Elementary, my dear physicists!	12
More on William Fowler	11
Commentary: A physicist’s perspective on COVID-19	11
Consulting can be stimulating and lucrative for physicists	10
Sand and mucus: A toolbox for animal survival	9
Why insects orbit light at night	9

Embracing imperfection for quantum technologies	9
Addressing the quantum measurement problem	9
Faculty interviews—traps and tips	8
Thoroughly modern Millie	8
Quantifying and mimicking life	8
Physics and poetry revisited	8
New books & media	7
Q&A: Marty Baylor enhances students’ skills and their sense of belonging as physicists	7
Comments on “Careers by the numbers”	7
Nineteenth-century women and physics across the pond	7
Arthur Compton and the mysteries of light	7
Atmospheric rivers bring anomalously high temperatures	7
Twisted liquid crystal	6
The roles of research and “fit” in tenure	6
Kyozi Kawasaki	6
Water’s hydrogen bonds are seen like never before	6
Commentary: Teaching quantum concepts	6
State anti-DEI laws sow uncertainty in public colleges and universities	6
Reconsidering tenure	6
New books & media	5
The two cultures, revisited	5
Heliocentrism before Copernicus	5
Nanoprinting low-temperature glass	5
What makes a big cat roar?	5
Europe’s particle-physics community weighs its next collider	5
The universe at your fingertips	5
FYI science policy briefs	5
NASA urged to boost R&D at expense of near-term missions	5
Our quantum world	5
Physics … is for girls?	5
Lawrence Livermore achieves a burning plasma in the lab	5
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation	4
Nineteenth-century women and physics across the pond	4
Q&A: Engineer Stewart Isaacs seeks equitable climate change solutions	4
FYI science policy briefs	4
Metamaterial device makes 16 polarization measurements at once	4
Roman Jackiw and the chiral anomaly	4
Matter–antimatter asymmetry is observed in baryon decay	4
Fermilab goes deep to silence noisy radiation affecting qubits	4
A right-handed molecule is coaxed to behave like a left-handed one	4
How a mineral that’s always wet gets wetter	4
Solar energy considerations	4
The roar of a rocket	4
Up-conversion nanoparticles measure medium-sized forces in hard-to-reach places	4
Perforating gold can make it stronger	4
To rule the waves	4
When your academic ladder is longer	4
Gravitational patterns reveal a tumultuous lunar past	4
A meticulous thermodynamic recipe for cooking eggs	4
The ingredients for an unbeatable squash shot	4

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

Disillusionment with climate models	1
Squaring the quantum computing circle	1
Slow solar wind traced to Sun’s active regions	1
The complexities of the human placenta	1
Illuminating atmospheric aerosols	1
Correction	1
Portraits of dismissed scientists personalize US government cuts to science	1
Young physicists excited to network through the International Association of Physics Students	1
Frictional flow patterns	1
When tenure fails	1
Einstein would be doubly amazed	1
Building with liquid blocks	1
Iron-based superconductors: Teenage, complex, challenging	1
The clean-energy challenge redux	1
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and photonics	1
Focus on test, measurement, quantum metrology, spectroscopy, and spectrometry	1
Michael Ellis Fisher	1
A laser selectively kicks carbon out of a foil	1
Teaching physics with phones: A game changer?	1
Revisiting science and colonialism	1
Giant telescopes take small but significant steps toward realization	1
Supply-chain issues compound research slowdowns	1
Diamond’s sparkle is in more than gemstones	1
Engineering better science education	1
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors	1
Putting holes in a sail to reach the stars	1
Seeing the softer side of nanoparticles	1
Hidden fluid dynamics of dry salt lakes	1
Nanoscale 3D printing	1
Scientific progress and preservation clash in demolition of Curie building	1
Comparing clocks by using pulses of light	1
Correction	1
Political currents	1
Correction	1
Quantum quibble	1
Particle physicist Carolina Deluca retools when she needs to	1
A proposed solution to arbitrary evaluations	1
Diamond-defect clusters are measured with speed and precision	1
W. Jason Morgan	1
The Hund-metal path to strong electronic correlations	1
Stepping into NSF	1
FYI science policy briefs	1
Commentary: How to talk about climate change with politicians	1
More on being a physicist in industry	1
Q&A: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe reflects on her tenure as DOE Office of Science director	1
Q&A: Frank Close probes quarks and popularizes science	1
Sea changes for scientific ocean drilling	1
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation	1
The perfect strike in tenpin bowling	1
Solving quantum chemistry problems on quantum computers	1
Role-playing the life of a scientist	1
Jamming connects granulation and flow	1
Structures like Möbius strips	1
A star’s demise is connected to a neutrino outburst	1
Spacetime, essentially	1
Q&A: Xiaoxing Xi on the wrongful arrest that upended his research and his life	1
Robert Floyd Curl Jr	1
Q&A: Tareq Abu Hamed champions environmental cooperation in the Middle East	1
Constructing DNA, once again	1
Attosecond pioneers win physics Nobel	1
A menagerie of Martian auroras	1
“My Favorite Things,” physics edition	1
Five decades of missing matter	1
Even underwater, money talks	1
UK coalition gears up to demonstrate commercial viability of fusion energy	1
Artificial hands make lifelike movements	1
Elusive helium stars identified in archival data	1
Focusing with a spiral lens	1
Mauna Loa awakens	1
The subtle math of a heartbeat gone wrong	1
NSF and postwar US science	1
The tsunami triggered by the Chicxulub impact	1
What’s old is new in DOE’s choice of fusion hopefuls	1
A series of paradigm shifts	1
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors	1
Firearms forensics is becoming more quantitative	1
No uncertain terms	1
Celebrating Emmy Noether	1
Uranus’s hidden polar cyclone, revealed	1
How did Mars lose its atmosphere and water?	1
Physics Nobel honors foundational quantum entanglement experiments	1
Scientists drill for oldest ice to reveal secrets about Earth’s climate	1
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and photonics	1
The clean-energy challenge	1
FYI science policy briefs	1
Measurements of sea-level rise from melting ice get even more accurate	1
A journey to touch the Sun	1
Paul Langevin, U-boats, and ultrasonics	1
Commentary: Breaking the spell of scientific isolation in the developing world	1
A radio telescope array takes shape with private funds	1
Stories from the early days of quantum mechanics	1
Demands on early-career faculty	1
Physics, AI, and the future of discovery	1
From cracks to atoms and back again	1
FYI science policy briefs	1