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May 2012

Volume 65, Issue 5

cover: Scattered efforts are under way to transform data sets into sound and thereby take advantage of humans’ natural aural filters in order to discover patterns, recognize events, monitor information streams, and communicate results. This abstract collage represents the power of the emerging field of data sonification. For more, see the story on page 20.

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Molding the flow of light: Photonics in astronomy

Joss Bland-Hawthorn and Pierre Kern
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Light gathered and focused by a telescope must often be refocused onto spectrographs and other complex instruments. To such ends, astronomers are coming to realize the benefits of photonics.

Insights from the classical atom

Petar Grujić and Nenad Simonović
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Decades after the 1920s rise of quantum mechanics, the classical mechanical framework remained a useful lens through which to examine ionization, scattering, and other atomic processes.
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A tale of openness and secrecy: The Philadelphia Story

Alex Wellerstein
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A now little-known manuscript prepared by nine young physicists as a statement about the futility of scientific secrecy quickly became a test of the limits of free discourse in the nuclear age.
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back to top Problem sets and other deterrents for women
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Problem sets and other deterrents for women

Mark Lesmeister
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Problem sets and other deterrents for women

Diane Grayson
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Problem sets and other deterrents for women

Sarah Gilbert, Cynthia Heiner, Natasha Holmes, Ido Roll, Georg Rieger, and Ashley Welsh
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Problem sets and other deterrents for women

Jeffery Winkler
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Problem sets and other deterrents for women

Manuel N. Bass
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Problem sets and other deterrents for women

James Trefil and Sarah Swartz
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back to top On the value of particle physics
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On the value of particle physics

Charles E. Roos
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back to top Notes on Anderson localization
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Notes on Anderson localization

Theodore Castner
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Notes on Anderson localization

Ad Lagendijk, Bart van Tiggelen, and Diederik Wiersma
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back to top A better option for US fusion program
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A better option for US fusion program

Wallace Manheimer
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Correction

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Reactor experiment reveals neutrino oscillation’s third mixing angle

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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A nonzero value for this elusive parameter offers a possible explanation for the cosmic shortage of antimatter.

Custom shapes from swell gels

R. Mark Wilson
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A new lithographic method patterns UV-sensitive, water-absorbing polymers to produce complex, self-folding shapes.

Toward an attosecond view of molecules

Johanna L. Miller
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Theory and experiment combine to examine an important ultrafast process in polyatomic molecules.
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Fast times in ferromagnetic alloys

Richard J. Fitzgerald
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An optical probe of quantum gravity?

Steven K. Blau
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Ultrashort pulses of optical superradiance

Stephen G. Benka
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Diagnosing thyroid cancer with ultrasound

Charles Day
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Heating and cooling with electron spins

R. Mark Wilson
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Shhhh. Listen to the data

Toni Feder
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Sifting through large amounts of data, monitoring data streams, and communicating results are promising areas for sonification.

Fostering a research “ecosystem”

David Kramer
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Universities and DOE labs are in solidarity about support for research.

Obama urges renewed efforts on arms control

David Kramer
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Several nations are reported to have shed all their weapons-usable materials, but the president warns that the threat of nuclear terrorism remains.

Nuclear security agency and weapons labs at odds

David Kramer
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Micromanagement by NNSA is blamed for adding hundreds of millions of dollars in labs’ extra costs.

Taking steps toward the next big particle collider

Toni Feder
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Two candidate successors to the Large Hadron Collider are closing ranks, and a move is afoot for Japan to be the host.

White House seeks to get a handle on “big data”

David Kramer
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Scientific enterprise is “drowning in data but starving for understanding.”
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Budget squeezes neutrinos

Toni Feder
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Magnetic record

Toni Feder
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A Short History of Physics in the American Century

Benjamin Wilson, Reviewer
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Modeling Nanoscale Imaging in Electron Microscopy

Les J. Allen, Reviewer
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Eruptions That Shook the World

Don L. Anderson, Reviewer
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Modeling Methods for Marine Science

Adrian Burd, Reviewer
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New books

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Focus on lasers and imaging

Andreas Mandelis
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Stig Hagström

Arthur Bienenstock, Charles S. Fadley, and Bo Sundqvist
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Aden Baker Meinel

James B. Breckinridge and Helmut A. Abt
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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Jean St. Germain and Lawrence N. Rothenberg
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Turbulence in two dimensions

Nicholas T. Ouellette
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A turbulent flow confined to a plane is a fascinating nonlinear system with surprising connections to many branches of physics.
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Designer Dirac fermions

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