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June 2001

Volume 54, Issue 6

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The Physics of Earthquakes

Hiroo Kanamori and Emily E. Brodsky
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Seismologists have never directly observed rupture in Earth's interior. Instead, they glean information from seismic waves, geodetic measurements, and numerical experiments.
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Flexible Methods for Microfluidics

George M. Whitesides and Abraham D. Stroock
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Devices for handling nanoliter quantities of fluids are creating new fabrication challenges and finding new applications in biology, chemistry, and materials science.
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The Early Days of Pugwash

Joseph Rotblat
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During the height of the cold war, how did prominent Western and Soviet scientists end up in Canada discussing nuclear weapons?
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Defending Freedom of Speech: What Have We Accomplished?

Marc H. Brodsky and Thomas J. McIlrath
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Physics Update

Barbara Goss Levi, James R. Riordan, and Philip F. Schewe
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Scaling Mount Planck I: A View from the Bottom

Frank Wilczek
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Reducing CO2 Emissions: Turn Down the Heat, Crank Up Efficiency

Berol Robinson, D. G. Karraker, John E. Tanner, John Walmsley, David Lloyd Klepper, Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Tina M. Kaarsberg, and Joseph Romm
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Quantum Theory Comes in Waves and Particles

Walter A. Harrison
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ENIAC or ABC?

Joel A. Snow
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In SOA, S Is for Semiconductor

Tom Pearsall and Gordon A. Thomas
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Insect Flight Simulation Resembles Navier‐Stokes

Peter Freymuth, Karl Gustafson, and Robert Leben
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Black Hole Candidates Weigh In

Lev Titarchuk and Chris Shrader
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‘Available Online’ Not Good News to All

Woodlief Thomas, Jr.
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Correction

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Farthest Supernova Strengthens Case for Accelerating Cosmic Expansion

Bertram Schwarzschild
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A 10‐billion‐year‐old stellar explosion, serendipitously recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope's infrared camera, seems to show the cosmic expansion slowing down before it eventually sped up.
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Warming Oceans Appear Linked to Increasing Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases

Barbara Goss Levi
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An expanded data set for ocean temperatures has enabled climate modelers to compare predicted heating of the ocean to what has been observed over the past 40 years.
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Researchers Uncover the Neural Details of How Barn Owls Locate Sound Sources

Charles Day
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Barn owls use the neural equivalent of an AND gate to combine time‐difference and intensity cues.
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Most Federal Science Money Flat or Falling as Bush Favors Medical and Defense R&D in Fiscal 2002

Jim Dawson
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With the con cept o f a “balanced portfolio” for federal science funding gone from the Bush budget, Capitol Hill supporters of the physical sciences will spend the summer engaged in what looks to be a difficult search for more money.
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Twin Photonics Centers Funded by High‐Tech Entrepreneur

Lynley Hargreaves
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Private Money Launches Institute Melding Particle Physics and Cosmology at Stanford

Toni Feder
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APS Launches Boost‐Phase Missile Defense Study

Jim Dawson
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SAGE Fends Off Gallium Raid

Toni Feder
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News Notes

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Correction

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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Crystallographers to Meet in California Next Month

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Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: Listening to the Sounds of Space‐Time

Marcia Bartusiak and Lawrence M. Krauss, Reviewer
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Condensed Matter Physics

Michael P. Marder and Sokrates T. Pantelides, Reviewer
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Introduction to High Energy Physics

Donald H. Perkins and Sarah C. Eno, Reviewer
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Mathematical Methods: For Students of Physics and Related Fields

Sadri Hassani and Alfonso M. Albano, Reviewer
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Quantum Chemistry: Classic Scientific Papers

Hinne Hettema and Robert G. Parr, Reviewer
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Psychoacoustics: Facts and Models

Eberhard Zwicker, Hugo Fastl, and William M. Hartmann, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Sensors

Lawrence G. Rubin
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AAS Acknowledges Achievements in Astronomy

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EGS Honors Geophysicists

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Alder, Kawasaki Named This Year's Boltzmann Medalists

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In Brief

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William Aaron Nierenberg

Charles Townes and Walter Munk
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Frank John Kerr

Gart Westerhout
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John Aloysius O’Keefe

David P. Rubincam, Paul D. Lowman, and Bernard Chovitz
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Lev Pavlovich Rapoport

Nikolai L. Manakov and Vitali D. Ovsiannikov
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Raymond Leroy Kelly

Raymond C. Elton, Otto Heinz, and Karlheinz F. Woehler
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John Robert Neighbours

Xavier K. Maruyama and Fred R. Buskirk
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