The United States showed the world how a government could foster the freedom required for basic science research, the results of which can be negligible or earthshaking. That freedom—and America’s technological lead—have eroded at the same time
Physicists may at last have devised a Theory of Everything. Unfortunately, nobody yet knows how to prove it
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is preparing for the first large-scale search for radio signals from alien civilizations
The ultimate goal of physics is a theory that explains all matter and energy. Today physicists may be close to achieving that goal, in large part because of the efforts of Sheldon L. Glashow