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March 2007

Volume 60, Issue 3

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Solar Energy Conversion

George W. Crabtree and Nathan S. Lewis
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If solar energy is to become a practical alternative to fossil fuels, we must have efficient ways to convert photons into electricity, fuel, and heat. The need for better conversion technologies is a driving force behind many recent developments in biology, materials, and especially nanoscience.

Medical Diagnostic Ultrasound

E. Carr Everbach
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Although the roots of medical ultrasound lie in military technology, many of the past decade's advances have come from exploiting new understandings in the physics of mammalian tissues.

Nonlinear Dynamics of Heart Rhythm Disorders

Alain Karma and Robert F. Gilmour, Jr
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Applying the techniques of nonlinear dynamics to cardiac arrhythmias sheds light on their genesis and suggests new strategies for preventing them.
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Approaches for Improving Students' Understanding of Quantum Mechanics

Robert B. Griffiths, Travis Norsen, Walter A. Harrison, Norman Chonacky, Philip Shemella, Michael Saelim, Chandralekha Singh, Mario Belloni, and Wolfgang Christian
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Uncertainty Over Weakening Circulation

Petr Chylek
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Postscript on Chandra and Eddington

B. S. Chandrasekhar
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An Adventure in Relative Time‐Keeping

Tom Van Baak
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Note on the Torsion Tensor

Friedrich W. Hehl and Steven Weinberg
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Antibunching Observed in Cold, Dense Gases of Fermionic Atoms

Charles Day
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A two‐body correlation could help elucidate many‐body phenomena, including the emergence of high‐Tc superconductivity.

Three‐Dimensional Mapping of Dark Matter Reveals the Expected Filamentary Scaffold

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Model simulations of the large‐scale distribution of galaxies have long suggested that galaxies form on a filamentary network of dark matter. Now gravitational lensing has yielded a look at that network.

Diffraction and Modeling Solve the Structure of Ytterbium‐Cadmium Quasicrystals

Mark Wilson
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This complex icosahedral quasicrystal forms from remarkably few types of geometrical clusters.

Physics Update

Turner Brinton, Charles Day, Phillip F. Schewe, and Stephen G. Benka
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Science Survives Budget Battles

Jim Dawson
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A unique and confusing confluence of three federal budgets triggered a torrent of position papers, letter‐writing campaigns, and insider lobbying that, in the end, saved science funding for fiscal year 2007.

China Raises Stakes on Space Arms Race

Paul Guinnessy
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Experimenting with Plagiarism Detection on the Arxiv

Toni Feder
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Google to Handle Telescope Data

Karen H. Kaplan
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More Physics in US High Schools

Toni Feder
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News Notes

Jim Dawson and Toni Feder
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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To the Postdocs

Steven Weinberg
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General Relativity: An Introduction for Physicists

M. P. Hobson, G. Efstathiou, A. N. Lasenby, and Lawrence H. Ford, Reviewer
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The Physics of Semiconductors: An Introduction Including Devices and Nanophysics

Marius Grundmann and John H. Weaver, Reviewer
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An Invitation to Astrophysics

Thanu Padmanabhan and James Binney, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Test and Measurement

Lawrence G. Rubin
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AAPT Presents Awards in Seattle

Karen H. Kaplan
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NAS Awardees Named

Karen H. Kaplan
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In Brief

Karen H. Kaplan
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Brebis Bleaney

Michael Baker
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Seeing is Believing? Sonographic Artifacts

Frederick W. Kremkau
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Several physical assumptions go into the production of a sonogram from an ultrasound examination. When those assumptions are violated, the sonogram incorrectly images anatomical structures and blood flow.
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Not‐So‐Empty Space

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