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December 2008

Volume 61, Issue 12

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Environmental consequences of nuclear war

Owen B. Toon, Alan Robock, and Richard P. Turco
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A regional war involving 100 Hiroshima‐sized weapons would pose a worldwide threat due to ozone destruction and climate change. A superpower confrontation with a few thousand weapons would be catastrophic.

Batteries and electrochemical capacitors

Héctor D. Abruña, Yasuyuki Kiya, and Jay C. Henderson
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Present and future applications of electrical energy storage devices are stimulating research into innovative new materials and novel architectures.

Who is listening? What do they hear?

Stephen G. Benka
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In communicating our science, have we put too much emphasis on the information we want to convey? Perhaps there is another way to think about it.
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From αβγ to precision cosmology: The amazing legacy of a wrong paper

Michael S. Turner
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Remembering Reagan and SDI

Harrison H. Schmitt and Peter Westwick
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Scientists protest professor's dismissal

Herbert L. Berk, Nathaniel J. Fisch, Alexander Burdakov, Gennadi I. Dimov, Alexander A. Ivanov, Eduard P. Kruglyakov, Vladimir Moiseenko, Klaus Noack, Vladimir P. Pastukhov, Shigetoshi Tanaka, and Olov Ågren
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Stellarator pro and con

Allen H. Boozer and Daniel Jassby
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Peering into peer review

Tai‐Yin Huang
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Early x‐ray burst sighting

Richard D. Belian and Mario R. Perez
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Coleman tribute

Sandy Alyea
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Physics Nobel Prize to Nambu, Kobayashi, and Maskawa for theories of symmetry breaking

Bertram Schwarzschild
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In particle physics, some symmetries are so severely broken that they're hard to recognize. Others are so slightly broken that the imperfection is hard to find.

The 2008 Nobel Chemistry Prize honors the development of a fluorescent tag for bioscience

Barbara Goss Levi
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Researchers can now program cells to make their own dyes, which illuminate the activities of proteins within a cell.

X‐ray light valve emerges as a low‐cost, digital radiographic imager

Mark Wilson
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The instrument combines the physics of amorphous semiconductors, liquid crystals, and the common document scanner.

Physics Update

Jermey N. A. Matthews, Johanna L. Miller, and Stephen G. Benka
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Japan aims to internationalize its science enterprise

Toni Feder
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Money and bows to other cultures, such as merit‐based salaries and English in the lab, are cultivating good science and attracting leading scientists to spend time in Japan.

Could ‘green gasoline’ displace ethanol as the biofuel of choice?

David Kramer
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Researchers report advances in making renewable fuels that are compatible with the US petroleum infrastructure.

Italy's students protest government attack on universities

Toni Feder
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Researchers in Italy say basing both hiring and budget cuts on merit is the most they can hope for to minimize a new law's damage to universities.
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Obama is urged to quickly appoint science adviser

David Kramer
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As the transition of power begins, groups seek restoration of the status that science advising held in the White House before the Bush administration.

Imaging frontiers surveyed at Industrial Physics Forum

Jermey N. A. Matthews
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Von Braun spaceflight dreams auctioned

Toni Feder
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Congressional fellows chart political waters

Jermey N. A. Matthews
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Space debris, ITER in State Department fellow's portfolio

Jermey N. A. Matthews
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News Notes

David Kramer, Jermey N. A. Matthews, and Toni Feder
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Musimathics: The Mathematical Foundations of Music

Gareth Loy and Bradley Lehman, Reviewer
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Radiation Oncology: A Physicist's‐Eye View

Michael Goitein and Dan Jones, Reviewer
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Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture

Alan Sokal and Peter R. Saulson, Reviewer
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Atmospheric Acoustic Remote Sensing

Stuart Bradley and Gilles A. Daigle, Reviewer
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Introduction to the Theory of Coherence and Polarization of Light

Emil Wolf and Pierre Meystre, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on data acquisition

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Alexander M. Jamieson, Ivan Otterness, and Leszek A. Utracki
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A physicist's tour of the upper atmosphere

John T. Emmert
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Adapting adaptive optics

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