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Select this Article		Runaway Breakdown and the Mysteries of Lightning Alexander V. Gurevich and Kirill P. Zybin


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Select this Article		The Uranium Bomb, the Calutron, and the Space‐Charge Problem William E. Parkins


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Select this Article		An Organic Electronics Primer George Malliaras and Richard Friend


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Select this Article		The Second Law of Thermodynamics Alan Lightman


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PHYSICS UPDATE

Select this Article		Physics Update Steven K. Blau, Stephen G. Benka, and Phillip G. Schewe


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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		Reflections on Teaching: Learning from Students Jerry Gollub


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LETTERS

Select this Article FREE		Hans Bethe: Superlative Scientist, Incomparable Mentor, Humanitarian, Friend Silvan S. Schweber


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Select this Article FREE		Ideas Generated for Transforming the Electric Infrastructure Richard Factor, Wallace E. Brand, Clark Gellings, and Kurt Yeager


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Select this Article FREE		Radioactive Sources May Enter US Illegally Jerry F. Kerrisk, Joseph C. McDonald, Bert M. Coursey, and Michael Carter


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Select this Article FREE		More Notes on Global Warming Edouard Bard, George E. Smith, and Spencer Weart


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Select this Article FREE		Albert Einstein to Max Born Albert Einstein


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Record Gamma‐Ray Flare Is Attributed to a Hypermagnetized Neutron Star in Our Galaxy Bertram Schwarzschild


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Select this Article		Evidence for a Plasma Inside a Sonoluminescing Bubble Barbara Goss Levi


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Select this Article FREE		A String‐Theory Calculation of Viscosity Could Have Surprising Applications Steven K. Blau


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ISSUES AND EVENTS

Select this Article		Accelerator Labs Regroup as Photon Science Surges Toni Feder


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Select this Article FREE		Nuclear Power Needs Government Incentives, Says Task Force Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		US Postage Stamps Feature Scientists Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Iran Hints of Nuclear Flexibility Paul Guinnessy


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Select this Article		Yucca Mountain E‐mails Indicate Data Were Falsified Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Why Women Leave Academic Physics Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Argonne Finds New Director In‐House Cheryl M. Harris


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Select this Article		Dance for Physics Toni Feder


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Select this Article		News Notes Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Web Watch Charles Day


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MEETINGS

Select this Article		Crystallographers to Convene at Disney World


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BOOKS

Select this Article		Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience Georges Charpak, Henri Broch, and James Randi, Reviewer


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Select this Article		The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus Owen Gingerich and Jim Lattis, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Advanced Astrophysics Neb Duric and T. Padmanabhan, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Astronomy Methods: A Physical Approach to Astronomical Observations Hale Bradt and T. Padmanabhan, Reviewer

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Select this Article		The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and Larry Marschall, Reviewer


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Select this Article FREE		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article FREE		Focus on Lasers and Optics Lawrence G. Rubin

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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		President Bestows National Medals of Science and Technology


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Select this Article		Gunn, Peebles, and Rees Receive 2005 Crafoord Prize


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Select this Article		In Brief


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		James Arthur Krumhansl Alan R. Bishop, James E. Gubernatis, and Avadh Saxena


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Select this Article FREE		Gustav Konrad Medicus Alan Garscadden


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Select this Article FREE		Martti Mikael Salomaa Robert Joynt and Mikio Nakahara


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Select this Article FREE		Robert Phillip Sharp Clarence R. Allen and David J. Stevenson


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Select this Article FREE		William Edward Spicer Ingolf Lindau and Piero Pianetta


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Select this Article FREE		Carl Joseph Vyborny Maryellen L. Giger and Charles E. Metz


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Select this Article FREE		Mildred Widgoff David Cutts, Robert Lanou, and Irwin Pless


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Select this Article FREE		Lemuel David Wyly Jr Ronald F. Fox, James R. Stevenson, and Henry S. Valk


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