Follow us: Facebook    Twitter    rss    E-mail alert
Search Issue | Previous Next

May 2003

Volume 56, Issue 5

Issue Cover
back to top
RSS Feeds

Quantum Shot Noise

Carlo Beenakker and Christian Schönenberger
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
Fluctuations in the flow of electrons can signal the transition from particlelike to wavelike behavior and signify the nature of charge transport in mesoscopic systems.

Molecular Electronics

James R. Heath and Mark A. Ratner
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
Improvements in our understanding of how molecules transport charge, and how they interface to the macroscopic world, are fueling new devices and applications.
FREE

Middle‐School Texts Don't Make the Grade

John Hubisz
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
Thousands of teachers are saddled with error‐filled physical science textbooks that fail to present what science is all about. Physicists deserve some of the blame.
back to top
RSS Feeds

Physics Update

Phil Schewe, Ben Stein, and Stephen Benka
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

Analysis and Synthesis I: What Matters for Matter

Frank Wilczek
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds
FREE

A Sound Use for Metal Foams

David Lloyd Klepper and John Banhart
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

More on Carbon Sinks

Richard L. Pitter, William G. Finnegan, Barbara A. Hinsvark, Thomas R. McGuire, Bernell Argyle, Jorge L. Sarmiento, and Nicolas Gruber
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

Cinema as Physics Lesson

Lee Chow
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

Julian Schwinger's Paradoxical Legacy

Jagdish Mehra, Kimball A. Milton, and Tian Yu Cao
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

Two‐Ion Logic Gates Open the Way to Further Advances in Quantum Computing

Barbara Goss Levi
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
Precisely controlled logic gates are key ingredients in quantum computers, which can easily outperform classical computers for some problems.

Cosmic‐Ray Muons Might Help Thwart Transport of Concealed Fissile Material

Bertram Schwarzschild
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
Physicists at Los Alamos propose a new kind of surveillance imaging that avails itself of a ubiquitous natural flux of highly penetrating radiation.

Experiments Investigate the Behavior of Pores in Artificial Vesicles

Charles Day
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
Twenty‐first century experimental techniques combine with 19th century theory to explore how cell membranes behave when breached.
back to top
RSS Feeds

Canada Catalyzes Research and Recruitment

Toni Feder
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
Aggressive spending in Canada has spruced up research labs and promises an expansion of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, but it has also led to a time lag between setting up new equipment and finding money to maintain it.

Pentagon Revamps Nuclear Doctrine

Paul Guinnessy
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
The US government's plan to overturn a ban on designing new nuclear weapons is generating controversy.

Three Millimeter Arrays Converge in Inyo Mountains

Toni Feder
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

Bahcall Awarded Dan David Prize

Toni Feder
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

News Notes

Paul Guinnessy
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

Web Watch

Charles Day
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

Special Report: War, Terrorism, and National Security Shape Bush R&D Budget in FY 2004; Civilian R&D Funding Flat

Jim Dawson and Paul Guinnessy
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
Nondefense physical sciences run a distant second to big increases in weapons development and homeland security in the administration's budget, and Congress is wondering what happened to money it authorized for NSF.
back to top
RSS Feeds
FREE

Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller

Gregg Herken and Silvan Schweber, Reviewer
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

Nature's Flyers: Birds, Insects, and the Biomechanics of Flight

David E. Alexander and Z. Jane Wang, Reviewer
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

Computational Methods in Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Olaf Kolditz and Margot Gerritsen, Reviewer
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

Defects and Geometry in Condensed Matter Physics

David R. Nelson and David Thouless, Reviewer
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

A Quantum Approach to Condensed Matter Physics

Philip L. Taylor, Olle Heinonen, and Piers Coleman, Reviewer
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

Energy and the Environment

James A. Fay, Dan S. Golomb, and Marc H. Ross, Reviewer
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

New Books

OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds
FREE

Focus on Lasers and Optics

Lawrence G. Rubin
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

SoR Presents Bingham Medal to Larson

OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

AAS Honors Science Writers

OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

In Brief

OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds
FREE

Martin David Kamen

James Arnold
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

David Todd Wilkinson

John C. Mather, Lyman Page, and P. James E. Peebles
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

Robert Wilson

Tom Hartquist
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

Melvin Lax

Robert R. Alfano, Herman Z. Cummins, Myriam Sarachik, and Joseph L. Birman
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

Bela Adalbert Lengyel

Barney Bales
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

William Glenn Sly

Bernard D. Santarsiero
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
Close

close