The word “descriptive,” in science, “is a pejorative” and is “almost always preceded by ‘merely,’” according to David A. Grimaldi, a zoologist at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York, ...

In this installment of the Physics World Weekly podcast we look at how a new technique for infrared spectroscopy uses ultrashort laser pulses to minimize problems associated with noise. We chat with ...

THE sciences of life are marked off for practical purposes from those concerned with inorganic matter by obvious differences in the nature of the material with which they respectively deal. But in ...