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November 1998

Volume 51, Issue 11

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Exposing Life's Limits with Dimensionless Numbers

Steven Vogel
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A crude device for quantification shows how diverse aspects of distantly related organisms reflect the interplay of the same underlying physical factors.

The World Wide Web and High‐Energy Physics

Bebo White
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The Web—what you may now be using to buy an airline ticket or look up Miles Davis's discography—began life as a tool for improving the flow of information at CERN.

Superconductor‐Insulator Transitions in the Two‐Dimensional Limit

Allen M. Goldman and Nina Marković
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Increasing the disorder of an ultrathin superconducting film may produce a quantum phase transition at zero temperature to an insulating state.
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Physics Update

Benjamin P. Stein and Phillip F. Schewe
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Physics in 50 Years

Daniel Kleppner
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Particle Physics and the Everyday World, Grant Pie and the Future of Research

Fritz Rohrlich, Paul Roman, Lloyd Kannenberg, and Pablo Jensen
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Charge Inhomogeneity Plays a Key Role in Physics of Cuprates

Carlo Di Castro
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NVFRAMs Story Spurs Volatile Debate about Physics, Applications

Stephen Ducharme, Alexander V. Bune, Vladimir M. Fridkim, Glen Fox, Domokos Hadnagy, Tom Davenport, Lee W. Casperson, Orlando Auciello, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh
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Exchange about News Story on Particles Ends in Photon Finish

Mark E. Kowitt, Keith Dienes, Emilian Dudas, and Tony Gherghetta
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Article on Helium Mixtures is Given Referential Treatment

Robert B. Hallock
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Adrift on the Ice Pack, Researchers Explore Changes in the Arctic Environment

Barbara Goss Levi
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The first data to emerge from a yearlong measurement campaign near the North Pole seem to confirm earlier observations that the ice is thinning and that the Arctic Ocean's salinity distribution is changing.

Molecules Are Magnetically Trapped

Gloria B. Lubkin
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A Harvard University team used a helium buffer gas to cool CaH molecules, and then trap them.

Revisiting the Rain of Cometary Snowballs

Bertram Schwarzschild


See Also: Erratum | Erratum

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‘Particle Physics and Our Everyday World’: A Reply

Robert N. Cahn
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Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project

Peter Bacon Hales and William Happer, Reviewer
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Electronic Genie: The Tangled History of Silicon

Frederick Seitz, Norman G. Einspruch, and Alan B. Fowler, Reviewer
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Pluto and Charon: Ice Worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System

Alan Stern, Jacqueline Mitton, and Imke De Pater, Reviewer
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The Babylonian Theory of the Planets

Noel M. Swerdlow and John D. North, Reviewer
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Particle Astrophysics

Hans V. Klapdor‐Kleingrothaus, Kai Zuber, and Bernard Sadoulet, Reviewer
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Theoretical Fluid Dynamics

Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi and Stanley A. Berger, Reviewer
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Functional and Smart Materials: Structural Evolution and Structure Analysis

Zhong Lin Wang, Zhen Chuan Kang, and Kenji Uchino, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Power Supplies and Amplifiers

Lawarence G. Rubin
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Adler, Jackiw Named 1998 Dirac Medalists

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APS Honors Presented at Three Division Meetings

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In Brief

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Dillon E. Mapother and Donald M. Ginsberg
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Douglas Milton
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Washington Ins & Outs: New Science Board Members, New DOE and NSF Posts

Irwin Goodwin
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Space Scientists Split on Proprietary Data Rights

Toni Feder
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Sloan Survey Spurs ROSAT to Release All‐Sky Survey Data

Toni Fkdeh
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California's Science Standards Slammed for Demanding Too Much, Too Early

Toni Feder


See Also: Erratum

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Classroom Poster Sums Up Nuclear Science Concepts

Jean Kumagai
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Physics Baccalaureates: Numbers Down, Salaries Up

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In Brief

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Web Watch

Charles Day
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