Sometimes, the hardest job for a theoretical physicist is telling the story. The work in this field can be conducted entirely in the abstract, leaving outsiders (and the odd insider) bewildered, but ...

WASHINGTON — I remember the first time I looked into a kaleidoscope. What initially appeared as an ordinary spyglass magically transformed into endless patterns of color and unique designs just by ...

Cells are minute—typically too small to be seen by the human eye. Even so, the cellular world encompasses a range of scales, from roughly a tenth of a nanometer (10 −10 m) to a millimeter (10 −3 m) or ...

Can the arts be a bridge to other worlds? Daniel Parks, CC BY-NC Sometimes, the hardest job for a theoretical physicist is telling the story. The work in this field can be conducted entirely in the ...