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April 2002

Volume 55, Issue 4

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Special Issue The Energy Challenge

Stephen G. Benka
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Meeting Energy Challenges: Technology and Policy

Ernest J. Moniz and Melanie A. Kenderdine
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Effectively addressing today's energy challenges requires advanced technologies along with policies that influence economic markets while advancing the public good.

Physics in Oil Exploration

Brian Clark and Robert Kleinberg
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Petroleum engineers use a variety of physical techniques to find and exploit petroleum reservoirs in increasingly remote and complicated geological environments.

New Designs for the Nuclear Renaissance

Gail H. Marcus and Alan E. Levin
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The next generation of nuclear power plants could help satisfy the world's energy needs and support a hydrogen‐based economy.

Renewable Energy: Progress and Prospects

Samuel F. Baldwin
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After 25 years of dramatic technical progress, renewable energy technologies now have the potential to become major contributors to US and global energy supplies.

Hydrogen: The Fuel of the Future?

Joan M. Ogden
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Available hydrogen technologies can dramatically reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. But the switch to hydrogen fuel will require strong political will.
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Physics Update

Philip F. Schewe and Charles Day
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The Grid Grew from Physicists' Computing Needs

Maurice Jacob and Ian Foster
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Sprites and Elves Are Seen but Seldom Quantified

Kevin A. Capps and Earle Williams
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Edward Condon Remembered

Mark A. Wilson, Leonard X. Finegold, and R. Robert Brattain
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Physics Fills the Gap for Java Man

Daniel B. Karner
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Correction

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Skepticism Greets Claim of Bubble Fusion

Barbara Goss Levi
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Researchers report evidence that fusion has occurred within collapsing bubbles of deuterium‐containing vapor. Critics would like to see more definitive proof.
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How Fast Could Tyrannosaurus rex Run?

Richard Fitzgerald
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A new biomechanics model finds that T. rex lacked large enough leg muscles to run fast.

Sodium Detected in the Atmosphere of an Extrasolar Planet

Barbara Goss Levi
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As predicted by models, sodium atoms in the atmosphere of a remote planet are abundant enough that researchers have been able to see them. But they're also scarce enough to prompt some rethinking of the models.

Correction

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University Research Reactors Compete for DOE Handouts

Toni Feder
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Are nuclear science and engineering poised to rebound?

Food Meets Physics at Irradiation Facility

Toni Feder
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DOE Will Stop Funding Particle Physics at Brookhaven Accelerator

Bertram Schwarzschild
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If AGS funding is restricted to nuclear physics, two ongoing experiments will be abruptly axed.

Bonanza for Selected Science in Ireland

Toni Feder
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Ireland's new NSF‐inspired funding agency has more money than scientists had dared hope for.

Physics Project Scores in Siemens Westinghouse Competition

Anthony Tweed
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New Medal Named for Rosalind Franklin

Paul Guinnessy
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News Notes

Paul Guinnessy, Jim Dawson, and Toni Feder
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Special Report: Terrorism Drives Bush R&D Money to Defense and NIH; Other Science Funding Flat in Fiscal 2003

Jim Dawson and Paul Guinnessy
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The physical sciences are an alsoran in the Bush administration's priorities for science spending, but many in Congress hope to restore balance to the government's science portfolio.
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Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger

Jagdish Mehra, Kimball A. Milton, and Tian Yu Cao, Reviewer
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Hitler's Gift: The True Story of the Scientists Expelled by the Nazi Regime

Jean Medawar, David Pyke, and Gerald Holton, Reviewer
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The Universe in a Nutshell

Stephen Hawking and Chris D. Impey, Reviewer
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Megawatts and Megatons: A Turning Point in the Nuclear Age?

Richard L. Garwin, Georges Charpak, and John F. Ahearne, Reviewer
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Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About

Donald E. Knuth, Reviewer and Saul A. Teukolsky, Reviewer
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Helium Three

E. R. Dobbs and Robert B. Hallock, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Materials

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Educators Honored by AAPT

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Young International Scientists Garner New Award

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Franklin Medals to Be Awarded

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OSA Presents Awards for Engineering Excellence

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AGU President‐Elect for 2002 is Orcutt

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In Brief

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Victor Iosifovich Belinicher

Sasha Chernyshev, Konstantin Kikoin, and Victor L'vov
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William McCullough MacDonald

Alex J. Dragt and James J. Griffin
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Marcellus Lee ‘Marc’ Wiedenbeck

Lawrence W. Jones and William C. Parkinson
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