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Continuously improving precision in length measurements increases understanding of our world and its phenomena, both at small and large scales, as Leo Gross reveals.
The selection of speakers at a conference should reflect the full diversity of experience within the relevant community. Including more early-career researchers may help achieve this goal.
Journals are evolving into information platforms. This development provides a key to understanding recent trends in science publishing, and raises important questions about its future.
From determining the compound interest on borrowed money to gauging chances at the roulette wheel in Monte Carlo, Stefanie Reichert explains that there’s no way around Euler’s number.
Efforts to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power can benefit from studies of fundamental questions in plasma physics carried out in simplified devices.