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Select this Article		Were Fundamental Constants Different in the Past? Keith A. Olive and Yong‐Zhong Qian

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Select this Article		R‐Process Nucleosynthesis in Supernovae John J. Cowan and Friedrich‐Karl Thielemann

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	+ -	Show Topic The heaviest elements are made only in cataclysmic events. Finding out whether supernovae are cataclysmic enough requires extensive astronomical observation and sophisticated computer modeling.

Select this Article		Shallow‐Water Acoustics William A. Kuperman and James F. Lynch

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	+ -	Show Topic Extracting a signal from noise can be complicated, especially along a coastline filled with marine life, shipping lanes, undersea waves, shelves, and fronts that scatter sound.

PHYSICS UPDATE

Select this Article		Physics Update Stephen Benka and Phil Schewe

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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article FREE		Whence the Force of F = ma? I: Culture Shock Frank Wilczek

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LETTERS

Select this Article FREE		An American Physics Instructor in Botswana Dan de Vries

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Select this Article FREE		Quantum World Is Only Smoke and Mirrors Aage Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson, Ole Ulfbeck, H. Dieter Zeh, and Michael Gerver

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Select this Article FREE		An Early Route to MHV Tree Amplitudes V. P. Nair

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Select this Article FREE		Suárez a Father of South American Astronomy Patricio A. A. Laura

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Select this Article FREE		Naming a Name in H⁻ Spectroscopy Daniel Kleppner

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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Attosecond Bursts Trace the Electric Field of Optical Laser Pulses Charles Day

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	+ -	Show Topic The familiar textbook sketch of light's oscillating electric field can now be drawn directly from measurements.

Select this Article		New All‐Electrical Measurement Schemes Can Detect the Spin State of a Single Electron Richard Fitzgerald

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	+ -	Show Topic Spin‐to‐charge conversion improves prospects for semiconductor‐based quantum information processing.

Select this Article		Intense X-Shaped Pulses of Light Propagate Without Spreading in Water and Other Dispersive Media Charles Day

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	+ -	Show Topic The nonlinear interaction of light with matter can imbue optical pulses with surprising and potentially useful properties.

ISSUES AND EVENTS

Select this Article FREE		Special Report: Presidential Candidates Speak Out on Science Policies Jim Dawson

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Select this Article FREE		NASA Bows to Pressure to Save Hubble Paul Guinnessy

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	+ -	Show Topic In a turnaround, NASA may extend the life of the Hubble Space Telescope by servicing it robotically. But doubts remain over the feasibility of such a mission, and over how NASA would pay for it.

Select this Article		Panel Chooses Superconducting Option for the International Linear Collider Bertram Schwarzschild

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Select this Article		Physicists Get First Take at Science Fiction Film Paul Guinnessy

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Select this Article		Japan Funds New Cosmic‐Ray Detector in Utah Toni Feder

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Select this Article		Business Leaders Urged to Heed Global Warming Science Jim Dawson

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Select this Article		News Notes Jim Dawson and Paul Guinnessy

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Select this Article		Web Watch Charles Day

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MEETINGS

Select this Article		AVS to Assemble in Anaheim Judith Barker

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BOOKS

Select this Article		The Herschel Partnership: As Viewed by Caroline Michael Hoskin and Nina Byers, Reviewer

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Select this Article		Caroline Herschel's Autobiographies Michael Hoskin and Nina Byers, Reviewer

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Select this Article		Bose–Einstein Condensation Lev Pitaevskii, Sandro Stringari, and Anthony Leggett, Reviewer

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Select this Article		Probability Theory: The Logic of Science E. T. Jaynes and Ralph Baierlein, Reviewer

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Select this Article		Introduction to Cosmology Barbara Ryden and Bruce Partridge, Reviewer

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Select this Article		Fields, Flows and Waves: An Introduction to Continuum Models D. F. Parker and James Casey, Reviewer

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Select this Article		Surface Science: An Introduction K. Oura, V. G. Lifshits, A. A. Saranin, A. V. Zotov, M. Katayama, and John T. Yates, Jr., Reviewer

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Select this Article		An Analog Electronics Companion: Basic Circuit Design for Engineers and Scientists Scott Hamilton and Lawrence Rubin, Reviewer

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Select this Article		Galaxies and the Cosmic Frontier William H. Waller, Paul W. Hodge, and Judith Irwin, Reviewer

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Select this Article		Evolution of Networks: From Biological Nets to the Internet and WWW S. N. Dorogovtsev, J. F. F. Mendes, and Albert‐László Barabási, Reviewer

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Select this Article		New Books

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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article		Focus on Photonics and Imaging Lawrence G. Rubin

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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		Bjorken, Callan Win Dirac Medal

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Select this Article		AAPT Bestows Honors

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Select this Article		In Brief

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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Victor John Emery John Tranquada, Myron Strongin, Peter Johnson, and Steven Kivelson

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Select this Article FREE		Mario Iona Herschel Neumann and Albert Bartlett

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Select this Article FREE		Edwin Albert Power David Craig and Thuraiappah “Thiru” Thirunamachandran

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Select this Article FREE		Peter Wootton Ira J. Kalet

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