Space & PhysicsJuly 30, 2020
NASA Has Launched the Most Ambitious Mars Rover Ever Built: Here’s What Happens Next
Perseverance will stow away rocks for eventual delivery to Earth and will listen for Martian sounds for the first time
Volume 3, Issue 5
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Features
Space & PhysicsJuly 16, 2020
How Many Aliens Are in the Milky Way? Astronomers Turn to Statistics for Answers
The tenets of Thomas Bayes, an 18th-century statistician and minister, underpin the latest estimates of the prevalence of extraterrestrial life
Quantum PhysicsAugust 17, 2020
This Twist on Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox Has Major Implications for Quantum Theory
A laboratory demonstration of the classic “Wigner’s friend” thought experiment could overturn cherished assumptions about reality
Departments
Opinion
A Movie of the Evolving Universe Is Potentially Scary
'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,' Better Known as UFOs, Deserve Scientific Investigation
Could We Force the Universe to Crash?
News
This Photo of the Sun Is the Closest Ever Taken
Mystery over Universe's Expansion Deepens with Fresh Data
Quantum Tunneling Is Not Instantaneous, Physicists Show
Scientists Unveil First Ever Pictures of Multiple Planets around a Sunlike Star
Higgs Boson Gives Next-Generation Particle Its Heft
Time's Arrow Flies through 500 Years of Classical Music, Physicists Say
From the Editor