IF one may judge by the appearance of the bookshop windows and the bookstalls there is, at the moment, quite a minor boom in popular science in the publishing world. The part played by science in the ...
A glitzy holy grail in materials science has just been attained: scientists have created freestanding, single-atom-thick sheets of gold. This achievement is the first of its kind with any metal atoms, ...
In their soundproof hearing room, members of Congress’ Joint Committee on Atomic Energy broke a three-month deadlock (TIME, March 23). By unanimous vote last week, they elected New York’s ...