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January 2006

Volume 59, Issue 1

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Oil on Troubled Waters: Benjamin Franklin and the Honor of Dutch Seamen

Joost Mertens
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Men who worked at sea knew of the calming effects of oil on water long before Franklin began his investigations. Was their practical knowledge any different from the later scientific knowledge of the learned?
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Benjamin Franklin and Lightning Rods

E. Philip Krider
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Franklin's work on electricity and lightning earned him worldwide fame and respect—ideal assets for brokering aid from France during the American Revolution.

Vehicle Design and the Physics of Traffic Safety

Marc Ross, Deena Patel, and Tom Wenzel
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Light trucks cannot safely coexist with passenger cars under existing conditions. The problem becomes particularly urgent as more and more light trucks are used simply as car substitutes.
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Physics Update

Stephen G. Benka, Phillip F. Schewe, and Benjamin P. Stein
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On Absolute Units, II: Challenges and Responses

Frank Wilczek
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Mixed Reactions to ‘No New Einstein’

Marlys Stapelbroek, T. J. Blasing, William W. Carter, Foster Morrison, Burke Ritchie, Paul Roman, Peter Thejll, and Lee Smolin
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Discussing (or Not) Our Nuclear Future

Cheryl Rofer
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Teaching Students How to Learn

Jack R. Woodyard
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Corrections

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Electrons in Atomically Thin Carbon Sheets Behave Like Massless Particles

Mark Wilson
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Traditionally found in particle‐physics and cosmology contexts, the relativistic Dirac equation also describes how electrons move in a unique two‐dimensional condensed matter system, graphene.

Densely Packed Positronium Atoms Interact Chemically

Steven K. Blau
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For the first time, experimenters have seen atoms made from an electron and a positron exchange spins and perhaps form diatomic molecules.

Optical Trap Resolves the Stepwise Transfer of Genetic Information from DNA to RNA

Charles Day
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The assembly of RNA can now be tracked with a precision finer than the distance between its bases.
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Basic Science Funding Flat, as War, Deficit, and Hurricane Recovery Squeeze Federal Budget

Jim Dawson
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Most R&D agencies barely held their own in yet another year of modest science funding. A proposed across‐the‐board 2% cut could push many science programs into the red.

Mauna Kea Telescopes Step Up Collaborations

Toni Feder
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Tight budgets and pricey instruments are spurring a trend among observatories to swap time. To work, though, cultural, technical, financial, and administrative wrinkles need to be ironed out.

Probing Dark Energy Through Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

Toni Feder
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Evolution Wins in Pennsylvania, Loses in Kansas

Jim Dawson
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A slate of “real‐world” candidates swept the intelligent design majority off the Dover, Pennsylvania, school board, while in Kansas antievolutionists not only weakened science standards, but redefined science itself.
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Building for Pakistan's Quake Zone

Paul Guinnessy
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Democrats Offer Innovation Plan

Jim Dawson
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Physicists Protest US Nuclear Policy

Toni Feder
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News Notes

Toni Feder
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons

George Pendle and David H. DeVorkin, Reviewer
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Plasma Physics for Astrophysics

Russell M. Kulsrud and Eve C. Ostriker, Reviewer
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Nuclear Renaissance: Technologies and Policies for the Future of Nuclear Power

W. J. Nuttall and Michael T. Coyle, Reviewer
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The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born, the Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolution

Nancy Thorndike Greenspan and Joan Lisa Bromberg, Reviewer
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Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie

Barbara Goldsmith and Dorothy Beckett, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Data Acquisition

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Winners of National Medals of Science, Technology Named

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Mineral Physicists Win Balzan Prize

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In Brief

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Alastair Graham Walter Cameron

Gerald J. Wasserburg
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Shiing‐Shen Chern

Robert Bryant and Dan Freed
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Frederick Hendrick Fisher

William Kuperman and Fred Spiess
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Paul Aveling Redhead

Fred Dylla and Bill Westwood
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George Patrick Leonard Walker

Stanley N. Williams and Edgardo Cañón‐Tapia
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