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April 2007

Volume 60, Issue 4

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Select this Article		Defending Against Nuclear Weapons: A 1950s Proposal Silvan S. Schweber


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	+ -	Show Topic The discovery of strong focusing inspired Robert Wilson's ingenious idea to use mobile particle accelerators as a countermeasure against atomic weapons.

Select this Article		Quantum Turbulence William F. Vinen and Russell J. Donnelly


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	+ -	Show Topic Because superfluid eddies can only be formed from quantized vortex lines, one might expect quantum turbulence to be very different from its classical counterpart. But that's not necessarily so.

Select this Article		Quantum Size Effects in Metallic Nanostructures Michael C. Tringides, Mieczyslaw Jałochowski, and Ernst Bauer


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	+ -	Show Topic Electrons confined in ultrathin metal films provide a window on the peculiar world of quantum mechanics.

REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		What has Quantum Mechanics to do with Factoring? N. David Mermin


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LETTERS

Select this Article FREE		Perspectives and Contributions Over the Past 75 Years Charles W. Misner and Pedram Roushan


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Select this Article FREE		Dark Energy and Field Equations Without λ Alex Harvey


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Select this Article FREE		A Microscopic Definition of Mass J. W. G. Wignall


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Select this Article FREE		Correction


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Time‐Reversed Microwaves Beat the Diffraction Limit Charles Day


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	+ -	Show Topic Radiation from a modified antenna can be focused onto a spot 30 times smaller than the radiation's wavelength.

Select this Article		A Novel Composite is Stiffer than Diamond Steven K. Blau


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	+ -	Show Topic A crystal form that is unstable in isolation can be confined in tin to yield a material with unprecedented resistance to compression or extension.

Select this Article		Mechanical Force May Determine the Final Size of Tissues Charles Day


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	+ -	Show Topic By assuming compression inhibits cell division, two independent simulations account for the growth and size of a simple model organ.

Select this Article		Physics Update Charles Day, Mark Wilson, and Phillip F. Schewe


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ISSUES AND EVENTS

Select this Article FREE		Quiet Boom Could Revive Supersonic Air Travel Toni Feder


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	+ -	Show Topic Realizing overland supersonic flight is likely to proceed at a subsonic pace.

Select this Article		International Linear Collider Gets Reference Design and Cost Estimate Bertram Schwarzschild


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	+ -	Show Topic But DOE warns that the design team's hope for completion of the 31‐kilometer‐long machine by 2019 may be too optimistic.

Select this Article FREE		Industry Supplants Academia as Career of Choice Karen H. Kaplan


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	+ -	Show Topic From the 1940s through the 1980s, most physicists entering the job market snapped up positions in academia, shunning industrial posts, but that trend reversed itself by the early 1990s.

Select this Article		Interim Sites for Spent Nuclear Fuel Are of Limited Value Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Campaign Aims at Scientists and Engineers Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Europe Sets Astronomy Priorities Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Europe Creates Research Funding Agency Paul Guinnessy


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Select this Article		News Notes Jim Dawson, Toni Feder, and Paul Guinnessy


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Select this Article		Web Watch Charles Day


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MEETINGS

Select this Article		CLEO∕QELS to Convene in Baltimore


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BOOKS

Select this Article		Against Technology: From the Luddites to Neo‐Luddism Steven E. Jones and Robert L. Park, Reviewer


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Select this Article		The Three‐Body Problem Mauri Valtonen, Hannu Karttunen, and Martin C. Gutzwiller, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Nano‐Hype: The Truth Behind the Nanotechnology Buzz and The Nanotech Pioneers: Where Are They Taking Us? Steven A. Edwards and Mark A. Ratner, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Introduction to Computational Science: Modeling and Simulation for the Sciences Angela B. Shiflet, George W. Shiflet, and Wouter van Joolingen, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Every Other Thursday: Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists Ellen Daniell and Catherine Fenselau, Reviewer


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Select this Article FREE		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article FREE		Focus on Photonics and Imaging Lawrence G. Rubin


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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		Broecker to Receive 2006 Crafoord Prize Karen H. Kaplan


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Select this Article		King Faisal Honor Goes to Stoddart Karen H. Kaplan


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Select this Article		Wolf, Japan Prizes to be Presented Karen H. Kaplan


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Select this Article		Lawrence Award Winners Are Selected Karen H. Kaplan


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Select this Article		New Members, Associates Are Elected to NAE Karen H. Kaplan


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Select this Article		In Brief


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Obituaries: Alan Graham MacDiarmid Alan J. Heeger


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Select this Article FREE		Obituaries: Sidney Millman Theodore H. Geballe


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Select this Article FREE		Obituaries: Donald Edward Osterbrock C. Robert O'Dell and William P. Sheehan


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QUICK STUDY

Select this Article		Data Analysis: Frequently Bayesian Glen Cowan


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BACK SCATTER

Select this Article		James Webb Space Telescope on Tour


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