16th International Congress on Sound and Vibration
July 5, 2009 - July 9, 20095th International Workshop on Nanomagnetism & Superconductivity, Coma-ruga'2009
July 5, 2009 - July 9, 20092009 Boulder Summer School in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
July 6, 2009 - July 24, 2009Elihu Boldt
15 July 1931 - 12 September 2008
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD
Brian Pippard
07 September 1920 - 21 September 2008
Cambridge University
Cambridge, UK
In the Magazine July 2009
Industrial R&D in transition
An American Institute of Physics study completed in 2008 documents the ways in which the corporate physicist’s work has changed in the past 40 years. Here are its major findings.
Population genetics and range expansions
On a molecular level and at the frontiers of expanding habitats, large stochastic fluctuations can obscure signals of Darwinian evolution.
Subarctic seawater flows south in an unexpectedly wide, messy pattern
Gravitationally bound to the spinning globe, the oceans constitute a complex, turbulent system.
Need for clean energy, waste transmutation revives interest in hybrid fusion–fission reactors
Sweet solution or pie in the sky? Hybrids get new attention.
Special report: Obama proposes big increases for energy, climate change, and basic research
Increased funding for federal science and technology that began with the economic stimulus bill could be just a down payment on much bigger investments to come.
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