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Select this Article FREE		Graphene: Exploring Carbon Flatland Andrey K. Geim and Allan H. MacDonald


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Select this Article		Black Holes and Their Environments Jon M. Miller and Chris S. Reynolds


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Select this Article FREE		Science and the Islamic World—The Quest for Rapprochement Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy


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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		Master Michelson's Measurement Daniel Kleppner


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LETTERS

Select this Article FREE		Dances with Physicists Jeffrey Marque, Joost Mertens, José Alberto Flores Velasco, John Hauptman, Jennifer Lowery, Charles Hayes, and Stephen G. Benka


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Select this Article FREE		Windows and Credit in Irreversibility J. C. Phillips, L. E. “Skip” Scriven, Jerry Gollub, and David Pine


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Select this Article FREE		Planning Needed for US Nuclear Weapons Ron Bourgoin


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Liquid Xenon Detector Joins the Search for Dark Matter Bertram Schwarzschild


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Select this Article FREE		Electric Fields Have Potential as a Cancer Treatment Johanna Miller


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Select this Article		Neutral Atoms are Trapped and Imaged in a Three‐Dimensional Optical Lattice Charles Day


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Select this Article		Homemade Panels Significantly Reduce Noise in a Busy Hospital Unit Charles Day


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Select this Article		Physics Update Phillip F. Schewe, Benjamin P. Stein, and Stephan G. Benka


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ISSUES AND EVENTS

Select this Article FREE		US Condensed‐Matter Community Grapples with Availability of Crystalline Samples Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Stakeholders Weigh Costs of Open‐Access Publishing Paul Guinnessy


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Select this Article		Cohen Reorganizes DHS Science with “Customer‐Focused” Research Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Science Fiction Writers Bring Creativity to DHS Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Saudi Arabia Sets Up Research University Toni Feder


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Select this Article		News Notes Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Web Watch Charles Day


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BOOKS

Select this Article		Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for The Soul of Science David Lindley and Pedro G. Ferreira, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Quantum Liquids: Bose Condensation and Cooper Pairing in Condensed‐Matter Systems A. J. Leggett and Philip W. Anderson, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Concepts of Simultaneity: From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond Max Jammer and Alberto A. Martínez, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Pattern Formation: An Introduction to Methods Rebecca Hoyle and Edgar Knobloch, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Exploring the Quantum: Atoms, Cavities, and Photons Serge Haroche, Jean‐Michel Raimond, and Pierre Meystre, Reviewer


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Select this Article FREE		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article FREE		Focus on Analytical Equipment Lawrence G. Rubin


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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		AAPT Hands out Awards


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Select this Article		Kyoto Prize Laureates Announced


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Select this Article		Goldreich Wins Shaw Prize


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Select this Article		Franklin Institute Honors Scientists, Educators


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Select this Article		In Brief


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Pierre‐Gilles De Gennes Jean‐François Joanny and Philip A. Pincus


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Select this Article FREE		Maurice René Georges Jacob J. David Jackson and Chris Quigg


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QUICK STUDY

Select this Article		Saturn's Dynamical Rings Carl D. Murray


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BACK SCATTER

Select this Article		AKARI Maps the Infrared Universe


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