Stories by John Matson

The March meeting of the American Physical Society brought together thousands of researchers from around the world

How human exploitation has reshaped a marine ecosystem

Scientists develop a "time cloak" that can obscure an object at a given moment

How their plans stack up

Astronomers have made a crude two-dimensional thermal map of an extrasolar world they cannot yet see, confirming that violent winds rapidly whip around the planet

Resolving how the galaxy's halo of stars was assembled would provide important clues about galactic formation

When I was a kid, I spent an awful lot of time and money on model rockets. I loved the whole process—picking out which Estes rocket kit to buy, carefully assembling the thing, and, most important of all, igniting a solid-fuel engine to shoot a high-velocity projectile into the sky.

Europe’s Large Hadron Collider, already the most powerful particle collider in history—and by a wide margin at that—is about to break its own record.

The Red Planet looks to have been home to a large body of water billions of years ago

There may be Earth-size satellites orbiting exoplanets that can be detected using Kepler data. But where the HEK are they?

Pro basketball players are much more likely to try another three-point shot after making one than after missing one

Physicists make two diamonds vibrate as one

During the cold war the U.S. found ways to work with the Soviet Union on space missions

A lunar sample collected by Apollo astronauts suggests that other-Earthly geophysics drove the moon's churning interior