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Volume 60, Issue 10

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Select this Article FREE		Space Debris David Wright

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Select this Article		Clathrate Hydrates Under Pressure Wendy L. Mao, Carolyn A. Koh, and E. Dendy Sloan


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Select this Article		Frontiers of Surface Science Gabor A. Somorjai and Jeong Y. Park


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FROM THE EDITOR

Select this Article		We Still Hear That… Stephen G. Benka


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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		Some Curious Facts about Quantum Factoring N. David Mermin

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LETTERS

Select this Article FREE		Roadblocks Deter Today's Einsteins Lance Nizami and William J. Aghassi


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Select this Article FREE		Solar Energy Conversion can be Small‐Scale and Low‐Tech Robert Levy


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Select this Article FREE		Physics and Information B. Roy Frieden, Shunlong Luo, and Angel Plastino


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Select this Article FREE		Justifying the Funding of Basic Science Gianpietro Malescio


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Select this Article FREE		Footnotes on Particle‐Beam Weapon History Wolfgang Panofsky


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Select this Article FREE		Memories of Philip Morse Lee Grodzins


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Select this Article FREE		American Physics Implosion J. C. Phillips


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Select this Article FREE		Retired Scientists Cooperative Vida Vambutas


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Select this Article FREE		Some Elements Go Cubic Under Pressure Richard Nelmes, Brahama D. Sharma, and Dominik Legut


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Select this Article FREE		Corrections


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article FREE		Varying Cosmic‐Ray Flux May Explain Cycles of Biodiversity Bertram Schwarzschild


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Select this Article		Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy Measures Heat Flow Through Molecular Chains Mark Wilson


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Select this Article		Wrinkles Provide the Means to Measure the Elasticity of Thin Floppy Films Charles Day


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Select this Article		Physics Update Richard Fitzgerald, Stephen G. Benka, and Philip F. Schewe

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ISSUES AND EVENTS

Select this Article FREE		Statistical Physics is for the Birds Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Fermilab Forms Backup Plan to Avoid Science Gap Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Neutrino Experiment Artifacts Surface Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Enrollments up, but Physics Lacks Women and Minorities Toni Feder


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Select this Article		News Notes Paul Guinnessy


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Select this Article		Web Watch Charles Day


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BOOKS

Select this Article		Is Pluto a Planet? A Historical Journey Through the Solar System David A. Weintraub and William F. Bottke, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Deep Earthquakes Cliff Frohlich and Heidi Houston, Reviewer


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Select this Article		I Am a Strange Loop Douglas Hofstadter and Klaas Landsman, Reviewer


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Select this Article		New Superconductors: From Granular to High T_c Guy Deutscher and Arthur F. Hebard, Reviewer


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Select this Article		A Scientist's Guide to Talking with the Media: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists Richard Hayes, Daniel Grossman, and Stephen P. Maran, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Concepts in Thermal Physics Stephen J. Blundell, Katherine M. Blundell, and Onuttom Narayan, Reviewer


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Select this Article FREE		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article FREE		Focus on Vacuum and Cryogenics Lawrence G. Rubin


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Theodore Harold Maiman Irnee J. D'Haenens


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Select this Article FREE		Bohdan Paczyński Bruce T. Draine and Robert H. Lupton


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QUICK STUDY

Select this Article		Wavelets, a Modern Tool for Signal Processing Ivan W. Selesnick


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BACK SCATTTER

Select this Article		Hearing Links


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