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January 2009

Volume 62, Issue 1

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Solving quantum field theories via curved spacetimes

Igor R. Klebanov and Juan M. Maldacena
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Strongly interacting quantum field theories are notoriously difficult to work with, but new information about some of them is emerging from their surprising correspondence with gravitational theories.
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Carbon nanotube electronics and photonics

Phaedon Avouris
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Their geometry, mechanical flexibility, and unique charge‐transport properties make carbon nanotubes ideally suited to supplant silicon in the next generation of FETs.

Panofsky agonistes: The 1950 loyalty oath at Berkeley

John David Jackson
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In 1949–51 the University of California was seriously damaged by a loyalty‐oath controversy. Wolfgang Panofsky, a promising young physics professor at Berkeley, was caught up in the turmoil.
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Imaging technologies need trained practitioners

B. D. Santarsiero and Angela M. Gronenborn
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Cocktail party at the beginning of the universe

Robert A. Putnam
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Domingo de Soto, early dynamics theorist

Jorge Mira‐Pérez
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Making partners of universities and corporations

Robert Killoren
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Correcting the record of manmade VLF radiation

George Paulikas
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Direct imaging reveals exoplanets in orbital motion

Bertram Schwarzschild
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If a planet orbiting another star is young enough, the afterglow from its heat of formation may be adequate for imaging.

Pressure unites two regimes of fluid breakup

Johanna Miller
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Bubbles of xenon near the gas's critical point are so dense that they behave like drops of water, not bubbles of air.

physics update

Richard Fitzgerald, Bertram Schwarzschild, and Stephen Benka
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Nuclear weapons at a crossroads as Obama enters office

David Kramer


See Also: Erratum

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Modernized warheads and new production facilities are on hold pending an updated nuclear policy demanded by Congress.

Applying Title IX to university science departments

Toni Feder
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Some federal funding agencies are reviewing the treatment of female students and faculty members in university departments they fund. Can such spot checks lead the way to gender equity?
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DOE invites partners in green technology

David Kramer
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“Entrepreneurs‐in‐residence” aim to spin off labs' energy technologies.
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LBNL director Chu to head DOE

David Kramer
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NASA sells technology rights to highest bidder

Jermey N. A. Matthews
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Scientists entertain Hollywood queries

Toni Feder
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Europe sets astronomy path

Toni Feder
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US, China settle on nuclear terms

David Kramer
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News Notes

Bertram Schwarzschild, Toni Feder, and David Kramer
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Solar variability does not explain late‐20th‐century warming

Philip B. Duffy, Benjamin D. Santer, and Tom M. L. Wigley
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Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines

Richard A. Muller and Robert March, Reviewer
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William and Lawrence Bragg, Father and Son: The Most Extraordinary Collaboration in Science

John Jenkin and William Evenson, Reviewer
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Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems

Vaclav Smil and Clifford E. Singer, Reviewer
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The Bethe–Peierls Correspondence

Sabine Lee and Silvan S. Schweber, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on photonics and imaging

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Theodore Eugene Madey

John T. Yates, Jr
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Julius Erich Wess

Jonathan Bagger and Hermann Nicolai
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The versatility of nanoscale mechanical resonators

Andrew N. Cleland
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Biomimetic ceramics

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