Preliminary program on-line
Recently released Swedish documents reveal why Lise Meitner, codiscoverer of nuclear fission, did not receive the 1946 physics prize for her theoretical interpretation of the process -- Elisabeth Crawford, Ruth Lewin Sime and Mark Walker
An experiment with squeezed light has demonstrated a new type of nonclassical effect: Correlated two-photon absorption can produce a two-photon excited population with a linear intensity dependence -- Zbigniew Ficek and Peter D. Drummond
Information systems play an important role in society, so threats to their security should be taken seriously---but there is no need to panic -- Martin C. Libicki
Singularities and blowups -- Leo P. Kadanoff
Experiments find hysteresis and precursors in the stick-slip friction of a granular system. Do laboratory studies of friction in a variety of systems have similar behavior?
Hipparcos parallax data may reconcile ages of globular clusters and the universe. The number of stars for which we have accurate distances has suddenly grown a hundredfold. It's already affecting estimates of the age of the cosmos.
Infrared laser illustrates another way to achieve gain. Thanks to an innovative design, researchers have made an infrared semiconductor laser whose wavelength can be electrically tuned.
Radio telescope in space maps quasar jet.
San Jose Will Host AVS in October
Preliminary program on-line
Brewing the perfect pint
Era of good feeling for balanced-budget act extends to FY 1998 funding for R&D agencies
Fallout of atmospheric nuclear tests in 1950s and 1960s exposed more people to iodine-131 than Chernobyl accident
The full report from the National Cancer Institute
Garwin uses Fermi Prize event to recommend decisive actions
Washington dispatches: Profit in traffic jams; Two awards and a tribute; Virtually OTA
Washington ins and outs: Key posts filled at DOE and NSF
NASA sets ambitious strategic plan for space science. To carry out its lofty plans for probing the universe, NASA is putting more effort into technology advances; it will also have to continue to capture the public's interest, imagination and purse.
Threatened with closure, the Royal Greenwich Observatory may yet be saved
Newest NOAA research ship studies Pacific rainfall
Bréchignac becomes first woman to head CNRS
A physicist, Rexhep Mejdani, now leads Albania
Board grants Massachusetts physics programs a reprieve
Canada hosts 1997 Physics Olympiad
Links mentioned in briefs:
Optics Express
Visiting scholar awards at the ITP in Santa Barbara
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla---Biography of a Genius, M. J. Seifer (reviewed by R. H. March)
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics, edited by J. S. Rigden (reviewed by B. Pippard)
Introduction to the Theory of Ferromagnetism, A. Aharoni (reviewed by A. Arrott)
Theory of Nuclear Reactions, P. Fröbrich and R. Lipperheide (reviewed by R. Satchler)
Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe, H. Kragh (reviewed by K. Hufbauer)
The Magnetic Field of the Earth: Paleomagnetism, the Core, and the Deep Mantle, R. T. Merrill, M. W. McElhinny and P. L. McFadden (reviewed by S. K. Banerjee)
Introduction to Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, C. Pozrikidis (reviewed by J. H. Ferziger)
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