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November 2002

Volume 55, Issue 11

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Brownian Motors

R. Dean Astumian and Peter Hänggi
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Thermal motion combined with input energy gives rise to a channeling of chance that can be used to exercise control over microscopic systems.

Earthquake–Volcano Interactions

David P. Hill, Fred Pollitz, and Christopher Newhall
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New measurements, statistical analyses, and models support the conjecture that a large earthquake can trigger subsequent volcanic eruptions over surprisingly long distance and time scales.

Fractional Kinetics

Igor M. Sokolov, Joseph Klafter, and Alexander Blumen
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It isn't the calculus we knew: Equations built on fractional derivatives describe the anomalously slow diffusion observed in systems with a broad distribution of relaxation times.
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Physics Update

Philip F. Schewe, Stephen G. Benka, and James R. Riordan
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Form Follows Function

John J. Hopfield
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Energy Issues for Vehicles: R&D, Carbon Sequestration, Fuel Conversion

Daniel R. Cohn, John B. Heywood, Ernest J. Moniz, Ramesh Gopalan, Vladislav Bevc, and Joan Ogden
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Intelligent Design Tangles Science and Religion

David C. Nobes, Jim A. Van Vechten, Ted Lawry, Adrian Melott, and Mano Singham
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Can GPS Test Gravity's Speed of Propagation?

Dieter Proetel, W. J. Cocke, and Neil Ashby
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On the Chemical Purity of Marine Microfossils

Mark B. Goodwin and Paul N. Pearson
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Heitler, Herzberg Observed that Nitrogen Nuclei Obey Bose

Boris P. Stoicheff
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Alan Cromer Is Alive

Claude Kacser and David W. Weiss
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Correction

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Investigation Finds that One Lucent Physicist Engaged in Scientific Misconduct

Barbara Goss Levi
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A stunned physics community is asking whether coauthors, institutions, or referees should have caught the misdeeds at an earlier stage.

CERN Group Detects More than 100 Antihydrogens

Barbara Goss Levi
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The mating of a positron to an antiproton is a significant milestone along an arduous path toward a comparison of matter with antimatter.

Beam Balance Helps Settle Down Measurement of the Gravitational Constant

Bertram Schwarzschild
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In recent years, measurements of Newton's G have been disconcertingly inconsistent. Perhaps the problem is the traditional torsion balance.

Why Do Lobsters Change Color When Cooked?

Charles Day
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Innovative crystallographic techniques help solve an intriguing scientific and culinary puzzle.
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Germany Reviews Big Physics Projects, Triggers Furor over Spallation Source

Toni Feder
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TESLA and a high magnetic field lab are among the projects that got good marks in a German assessment of nine proposed physics facilities that would cost £7 billion total. The European Spallation Source did not fare so well.

President's Science Council Urges More Money for Physical Sciences, Engineering

Jim Dawson
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Citing flat or decreasing federal funding since 1993 in many areas of the physical sciences and engineering, PCAST calls for funding “parity” with the life sciences.

Physics Papers Sold at Auction

Toni Feder
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Fusion Energy Panel Urges US to Rejoin ITER

Jim Dawson
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A burning plasma is within reach and fusion could start providing electricity in as little as 35 years, according to several fusion researchers.
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Teaching Physics with Superheroes

Toni Feder
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Hubble Successor Takes Shape

Paul Guinnessy
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News Notes

Jim Dawson, Paul Guinnessy, and Toni Feder
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Crisis in Physics?

Joseph Lykken
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Walter Baade: A Life in Astrophysics

Donald E. Osterbrock and Norriss S. Hetherington, Reviewer
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Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship

George Dyson and Arthur Kantrowitz, Reviewer
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Atom Optics

Pierre Meystre and Vladilen Letokhov, Reviewer
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Extreme Stars: At the Edge of Creation

James B. Kaler and Andrei Gruzinov, Reviewer
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Fundamentals of Quantum Chemistry: Molecular Spectroscopy and Modern Electronic Structure Computations

Michael R. Mueller and Donald G. Truhlar, Reviewer
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Inviscid Incompressible Flow

Jeffrey S. Marshall and Ömer Savas, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Technolog and Cryogenics

Lawrence G. Rubin
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MacArthur Fellows Announced for 2002

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Balzan Foundation Gives Prize in Geology

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Rubin Wins Cosmology Prize

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IOP Announces Award Winners for 2002

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Cohen Is APS Vice President for 2003

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In Brief

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Sheldon Datz

Joseph Martinez, Herbert Krause, and Ben Bederson
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Harold Ralph Lewis

Harry Dreicer, David C. Montgomery, Keith R. Symon, and Leaf Turner
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Charles Maisonnier

Robert Aymar and Ernesto Canobbio
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Adrian Nicolae Patrascioiu

David Campbell, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Erhard Seiler, and Daniel Stein
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Donald Keith Stevens

Louis C. Ianniello and Robert J. Gottschall
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