Physics Today is the membership
magazine of the
American Institute of Physics that was established in 1948. It is provided to the members of ten physics societies, including the
American Physical Society. Although its content is scientifically rigorous and up to date, it is not a true
scholarly journal in the sense of being a primary vehicle for communicating new results. Rather, it is more of a hybrid magazine that informs readers about important developments in the form of overview articles written by experts, shorter review articles written internally by staff, and also discusses the latest issues and events of importance to the science community such as science politics. The physics community's main vessel for new results are the
Physical Review suite of scientific journals published by the
American Physical Society and
Applied Physics Letters published by the
American Institute of Physics.