Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. A field experiment is a research method that uses ...

THE following process is recurrent in physical science. A certain amount of special knowledge, empirically accumulated and assorted, is tentatively cast into a comprehensive theoretical aspect. The ...

A trio of European physical science experiments were conducted in the Microgravity Science Glovebox aboard the International Space Station (ISS) during the past week. European Space Agency Flight ...