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October 2008

Volume 61, Issue 10

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The larger world of nano

Cyrus C. M. Mody
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Research in the social sciences and humanities can help scientists and policymakers to better understand the nanotechnology enterprise and to make it more transparent to an enthusiastic but cautious public.

When fermions become bosons: Pairing in ultracold gases

Carlos A. R. Sá de Melo
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The unprecedented control over the interactions and pairing of ultracold fermionic atoms provides insight into exotic strongly correlated phenomena and illuminates the physics of superfluidity in metals, nuclei, and neutron stars.

A fifth force farce

Lawrence M. Krauss
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A decade before Alan Sokal's famous hoax was published in Social Text, a thinly veiled spoof was submitted to Physical Review Letters. But in that case the editors gave as good as they got.
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Teaching about fluids

Jerry Gollub
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Variations on Sun's role in climate change

Peter Foukal, Diedrich Schmidt, Wim Klaassen, Jay Gulledge, Anthony D. Socci, W. H. Smith, J. R. Smith, Roger W. Cohen, Nicola Scafetta, and Bruce J. West
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Constraining potential bomb builders

Ahmad Shariati and Alisa L. Carrigan
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Conductive elastic polymers form the basis for organic skinlike electronics

Mark Wilson
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When carbon nanotubes are finely dispersed in a compatible copolymer, the material's conductivity exceeds that of any other elastomer by two orders of magnitude.
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Study tracks the changes in a vision protein as fish evolved

Charles Day
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Genetic engineering, statistics, and spectroscopy are combined to address a fundamental question in biology.

Experiment probes pattern formation during debonding of viscoelastic adhesives

Johanna Miller
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In at least one respect, adhesives always behave as either viscous liquids or elastic solids, and the boundary between the two regimes is sharp.

Physics Update

Stephen G. Benka, Bertram Schwarzchile, and Charles Day
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US falters on commitments to international science projects

David Kramer
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ITER and the ILC are the latest in a series of big‐ticket science collaborations to fall victim to the US political process.

Petawatt laser probes nature at Texas university

Toni Feder
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India revives neutrino research

Toni Feder
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Some 45 years after the discovery in India of atmospheric neutrinos, a new lab and detector could put the country back on the international neutrino research scene.
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One man, one hundred meetings, and a physics subfield

Toni Feder
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Recalibrating research at Motorola

Jermey N. A. Matthews
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The bell tolls for Bell Labs

Toni Feder
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News Notes

David Kramer and Toni Feder
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Science issues are prominent in this year's presidential race

David Kramer
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Barack Obama responds to the quadrennial PHYSICS TODAY questionnaire on science policy matters; John McCain declines invitations to participate.
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An Introduction to the Physics of Interstellar Dust

Endrik Krügel and Angela Speck, Reviewer
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Yoshio Nishina: Father of Modern Physics in Japan

Dong‐Won Kim and Kenji Ito, Reviewer
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Elements of String Cosmology

Maurizio Gasperini and Gary Horowitz, Reviewer
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Rotation and Accretion Powered Pulsars

Pranab Ghosh and Werner Becker, Reviewer
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Functional Integration: Action and Symmetries

Pierre Cartier, Cécile DeWitt‐Morette, and Steven Carlip, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on vacuum and cryogenics

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Henry Ellis Bass

James M. Sabatier
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Dragonfly flight

Z. Jane Wang
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Photonic fabric

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