Follow us: Facebook    Twitter    rss    E-mail alert
Search Issue | Previous Next

November 2008

Volume 61, Issue 11

Issue Cover
back to top
RSS Feeds
FREE

The physics of networks

Mark Newman
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
Statistical analysis of interconnected groups—of computers, animals, or people—yields important clues about how they function and even offers predictions of their future behavior.

Rare isotopes in the cosmos

Hendrik Schatz
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
Such stellar processes as heavy‐element formation and x‐ray bursts are governed by unstable nuclear isotopes that challenge theorists and experimentalists alike.

Research needs for future internal combustion engines

Dawn K. Manley, Andrew McIlroy, and Craig A. Taatjes
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
The challenges of internal combustion require a broad collection of research discoveries to make the transition from hardware‐intensive, experience‐based fuel development and engine design to simulation‐intensive, science‐based design.
back to top
RSS Feeds
FREE

Science not yet without borders

Stephen J. Harris, Joel Seligson, Victor J. Friedman, William F. Katz, and Barry Sanders
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

Physics: A calling or assembly line

Ramesh Gopalan, Lance Nizami, and Anita Mehta
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

Fine points on Productive Learning

Stanisław Głazek and Diane Grayson
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

Fleshing out the search for WIMPs

T. A. Girard and Bertram Schwarzschild
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

Flocking for survival

Muthana Al‐Ghazi
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

Radio interferometry measures the black hole at the Milky Way's center

Bertram Schwarzschild
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
Looking for structure at the galactic center on the size scale predicted by general relativity requires very‐long‐baseline interferometry at the shortest radio wavelengths.

Two models combined can forecast lava flow accurately and promptly

Johanna Miller
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
Changes in an erupting volcano can be monitored by satellite, but computing their consequences is a challenge.

Physics Update

Stephen G. Benka, Bertram Schwarzschild, Steven K. Blau, and Jermey N. A. Matthews
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds
FREE

Big changes may loom for small business research program

David Kramer
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
Congress weighing more funding for grants program and letting in venture‐capital‐controlled companies.

Mishap shuts down LHC until April

Bertram Schwarzschild
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
Damage to the Large Hadron Collider's magnets by an electrical fault and by the subsequent helium‐vessel rupture is still to be assessed.

Europe sets priorities in astroparticle physics

Toni Feder
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
Increased funding and global cooperation are key to realizing a wish list of astroparticle physics experiments unveiled this fall.
FREE

Are organic LEDs ready for the big screen?

Jermey N. A. Matthews
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

DOE officials detail security concerns at labs

David Kramer
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

Bubble fusion scientist disciplined

Barbara Goss Levi
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

NSF–EPA centers study safety of nanomaterials

Toni Feder
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

News Notes

Jermey N. A. Matthews and Toni Feder
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

Web Watch

Charles Day
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

A broader view of the role of humans in the climate system

Roger A. Pielke, Sr
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

The Demon and the Quantum: From the Pythagorean Mystics to Maxwell's Demon and Quantum Mystery

Marlan O. Scully and Gian Paolo Beretta, Reviewer
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

Group Theory: Application to the Physics of Condensed Matter

Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Gene Dresselhaus, Ado Jorio, and Volker Heine, Reviewer
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

Panofsky on Physics, Politics, and Peace: Pief Remembers

Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky and George Trilling, Reviewer
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

Volcanism on Io: A Comparison with Earth

Ashley Davies and David Williams, Reviewer
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

New Books

OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds
FREE

Focus on materials

Lawrence G. Rubin
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds
FREE

Willis Eugene Lamb Jr

Marlan O. Scully
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

Maurice M. Shapiro

Gaurang B. Yodh
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds
FREE

On ships, trains, and the equation of time

Anna Sajina
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

Flapping flags in tandem

OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
Close

close