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Select this Article FREE		China's 15‐year Science and Technology Plan Cong Cao, Richard P. Suttmeier, and Denis Fred Simon


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Select this Article		Exploring the Nanoworld with Atomic Force Microscopy Franz J. Giessibl and Calvin F. Quate


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Select this Article FREE		The Entangled Dance of Physics Stephen G. Benka


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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		Seeing Dark Matter in the Andromeda Galaxy Vera Rubin


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LETTERS

Select this Article FREE		Women in Physics: Why and Why Not? Vincente Aboites, Jerry Smith, Wei Smith, E. O. LaCasce, Robert K. Adair, Joseph Spicatum, Kamyar Hazaveh, and Evalyn Gates


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Select this Article FREE		Building Better Schools to Harvest Better Minds Howard D. Greyber


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Select this Article FREE		Fixing the Record on Descartes' Rules for Impact George E. Smith See Also: Erratum


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Mather and Smoot Share Nobel Physics Prize for Measuring the Cosmic Microwave Background Bertram Schwarzschild


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Select this Article		New Angles to Refraction and Reflection in Chiral Liquids Barbara Goss Levi


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Select this Article		Superconductor Forms Domains that Break Time‐reversal Symmetry Charles Day


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


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ISSUES AND EVENTS

Select this Article FREE		Corporations Embrace Bottom‐line Global Warming Plan Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Geological Hazards are Focus of Chinese Research Initiatives Toni Feder


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Select this Article		NSF Astronomy Seeks to Cut Spending to Afford Future Projects Toni Feder and Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Manned Mission to Service Hubble Paul Guinnessy


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Select this Article		New York Science Academy Goes Modern Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Congressional Fellows Bridge Science and Policy Toni Feder


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Select this Article FREE		State Department Clarifies Visa Policy for Foreign Scientists Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		AIP Sponsors Dufty in the State Department Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Web Watch Charles Day


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BOOKS

Select this Article		Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law and The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next Peter Woit, Lee Smolin, and Kannan Jagannathan, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Astrobiology: A Multidisciplinary Approach Jonathan I. Lunine and Iain Neill Reid, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Introduction to Microfluidics Patrick Tabeling and Sandra M. Troian, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Statistical Physics for Cosmic Structures Andrea Gabrielli, Francesco Sylos Labini, Michael Joyce, Luciano Pietronero, and Benjamin D. Wandelt, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Weak Scale Supersymmetry: From Superfields to Scattering Events and Theory and Phenomenology of Sparticles: An Account of Four‐Dimensional N = 1 Supersymmetry in High Energy Physics and Modern Supersymmetry: Dynamics and Duality Howard Baer, Xerxes Tata, Manuel Drees, Rohini Godbole, Probir Roy, John Terning, and Gordon Kane, Reviewer


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Select this Article FREE		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article FREE		Focus on Nanoscale Science and Technology Lawrence G. Rubin


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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		MacArthur Foundation Names Fellows


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Melvin Schwartz Nicholas P. Samios


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Select this Article FREE		James Alfred Van Allen Frank B. McDonald, Michelle R. Thomsen, and Donald A. Gurnett


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QUICK STUDY

Select this Article		Reprocessing Spent Nuclear Fuel David Bodansky


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BACK SCATTER

Select this Article		Flame Fractals


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