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July 2008

Volume 61, Issue 7

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Grand challenges in basic energy sciences

Graham R. Fleming and Mark A. Ratner
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Research focused in five related areas will allow unprecedented control over the microscopic world and could be the key to a sustainable future.

Energy efficiency in the built environment

Leon R. Glicksman
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Residential and commercial buildings constitute the largest energy‐consuming sector in the US. Implementing efficiency measures can be an economically viable solution for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Home photovoltaic systems for physicists

Thomas W. Murphy, Jr.
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Installing a modest photovoltaic system and using it to run a suite of appliances can be educational and immensely satisfying. This brief how‐to guide will help get you started.
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The wizard's legacy

Frank Lock, Robert Oppenheimer, and Jane Daniels
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Credentials and conformity

Howard D. Greyber
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Schrödinger solution for the Morse oscillator

Donald G. Truhlar and Lucjan Piela
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Bits on Quantum Information

Gregg Jaeger
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Policy analyst or crusading journalist

Thomas C. Halsey
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Making lemonade in the library

Dana L. Roth
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UV survey finds 40% of the baryons missing from the nearby universe

Charles Day
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Most baryons exist in the near vacuum between clusters of galaxies. Accounting for all the baryons continues to challenge astronomers.

Statistical mechanics elucidates constraints on the ultimate accuracy of biochemical sensing

Charles Day
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Some biochemical interactions are akin to detecting a sporadic signal against a noisy background.

Electron‐scattering experiments resolve short‐range correlations among nucleons

Mark Wilson
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Researchers at Jefferson Lab confirm that high‐momentum neutron–proton pairs in a carbon nucleus are 20 times more prevalent than proton–proton pairs.

Physics Update

Stephen G. Benka and Phillip F. Schewe
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Passenger jets collect data for research on climate change and pollution

Toni Feder
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Next time you settle in for a long flight, consider that instruments for sampling the outside air for atmospheric research may also be on board.

DOE urged to proceed more deliberately with global plan to expand nuclear power

David Kramer
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Critics of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership say the Department of Energy is rushing to commercialize unproven technologies.
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Social networks link interdisciplinary scientists

Jermey N.A. Matthews
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Analysis of social networks has become a many‐body problem, attracting physicists and uniting once‐divergent disciplines.

Budding engineers compete to build more efficient, greener cars

David Kramer
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University teams take varied technological approaches in vying for the Challenge X prize.

Experiments, jobs cut at DOE labs

Toni Feder
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US stellarator aborted

Toni Feder
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Report: Young scientists need more support

David Kramer
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Industrial physics practices highlighted

Jermey N.A. Matthews
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News Notes

Toni Feder
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AIP energy journal

Web watch

Charles Day
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Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment; InterNano; Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
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Education for the global energy challenge

Roel Snieder and Sally M. Benson
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What We Know About Climate Change

Kerry Emanuel and George Kiladis, Reviewer
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Science for Sale The Perils, Rewards, and Delusions of Campus Capitalism

Daniel S. Greenberg and William H. Wing, Reviewer
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The Paraboloidal Reflector Antenna in Radio Astronomy and Communication: Theory and Practice

Jacob W. M. Baars and George Swenson, Jr., Reviewer
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How Mathematics Happened: The First 50,000 Years

Peter S. Rudman and David Joyce, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on software

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Vladimir Idelevich Perel

Mikhail Dyakonov, Alexei Efros, Igor Merkulov, and Boris Shklovskii
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Frederick Seitz

Edwin L. Goldwasser, Andrew V. Granato, and Ralph O. Simmons
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How do auroras form?

Robert J. Strangeway
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A key element is a current, aligned along Earth's magnetic field, that results from the coupling of plasmas in and above our planet's atmosphere.
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Simulating a “big one”

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