Physical Review X Out of the Gate APS’s new open access online journal Physical Review X published its first issue on September 30 featuring twelve scientific papers
Nobels Honor Discoveries of Accelerating Universe, Quasicrystals The 2011 Nobel Prize in physics went to Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for discovering the accelerated expansion of the universe and the chemistry award went to Dan Shechtman for discovering quasicrystals
Fermilab Plans to Up the Intensity After the shutdown of the Tevatron, Fermilab is refocusing its research efforts to explore the cutting edge physics at the intensity frontier
Science Journalism Can Save Lives In a time of shrinking newsroom budgets, science reporting is imperiled but more important than ever
Meeting Briefs Highlights from the two APS divisions and six sections that met over the last month.
Ig Nobels May be not so Crazy After All Though the winners of this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes sound like silly science, there’s a lot of legitimate and important research behind them
Opinion
Letters to the Editor Political Left-Right Asymmetry Explained • Consumers Have a Right to the Incandescent Bulb • Physics of Climate is Inherently Political • Past Presidents Don’t Define Their Parties
The Back Page A Framework for K-12 Science Education