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
Addressing the quantum measurement problem	16
Why insects orbit light at night	16
Consulting can be stimulating and lucrative for physicists	16
John Edward Harries	15
Malaysian physics and the maker ethos	15
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and nanoscience	15
Ethics in physics: The need for culture change	13
Embracing imperfection for quantum technologies	13
Urgent measures are needed to shore up NIST’s crumbling facilities	12
Physics and poetry revisited	12
Commentary: Thinking of moving from academia into industry? Here are some things to consider	12
Climate change is redefining Arctic wildfires	11
Engineering better science education	11
New books & media	10

Eugene Newman Parker	10
New books & media	9
Sand and mucus: A toolbox for animal survival	9
Arthur Compton and the mysteries of light	9
Atmospheric rivers bring anomalously high temperatures	9
A clash of cosmologists	9
Physics and poetry revisited	8
Nineteenth-century women and physics across the pond	8
Comments on “Careers by the numbers”	8
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
Quantifying and mimicking life	7
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
The roles of research and “fit” in tenure	6
3-2-1 Contact: Scientists at the writers’ table	6
FYI science policy briefs	6
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
Europe’s particle-physics community weighs its next collider	5
New books & media	5
The universe at your fingertips	5
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
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
Thomas Ferbel	3
More on the quantum measurement problem	3
Perforating gold can make it stronger	3
X-ray imaging shows how a 17th-century painting lost its color	3
Up-conversion nanoparticles measure medium-sized forces in hard-to-reach places	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
A. V. Hill: The man behind the initials	3
Time-reversed laser absorbs nearly all light	3
Matter–antimatter asymmetry is observed in baryon decay	3
The behavior of thin curved sheets is ironed out	3
Roman Jackiw and the chiral anomaly	3
A new route to synthetic diamond	3
When unmixable metals mix	3
The early universe in a quantum gas	3
Judith Lynn Pipher	3
Blu-ray microscope with blood-cell lens	3
More machine than human?	3
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation	3
FYI science policy briefs	3
Laudable lectures	3
A wandering vortex	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
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
Precision measurements bring the search for new physics to the table	2
Quantum materials out of equilibrium	2
Superdeterministic loophole	2
Climate modeling innovators are honored with half the physics Nobel	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
With no end in sight for the war in Ukraine, CERN ceases cooperation with Russia	2
Butterfly effects	2
Searching for religion in the laboratory	2
New books & media	2
Water makes its mark on GPS signals	2
Code changes could drastically reduce bitcoin’s enormous electricity requirements	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
Groundwater flows deep under Antarctic ice	2
Fast-drying cracks	2
Another Fowler	2
The rapid acidification of sea spray aerosols	2
A synthesis of physical connectedness	2
A sprinkling of scientists prioritizes behaviors to counter climate change	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
Q&A: Tareq Abu Hamed champions environmental cooperation in the Middle East	1
The Hund-metal path to strong electronic correlations	1
Revisiting science and colonialism	1
Paul Langevin, U-boats, and ultrasonics	1

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