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November 2009

Volume 62, Issue 11

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Materials in extreme environments

Russell J. Hemley, George W. Crabtree, and Michelle V. Buchanan
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The study of materials under harsh conditions is essential to meet a range of energy challenges—from creating better turbines, reactors, and batteries to developing future energy systems in dense plasmas.
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Human‐generated sound and marine mammals

Peter L. Tyack
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Loud anthropogenic noises can alter the behavior of whales and other marine mammals, sometimes with fatal consequences.

Paul Dirac, a man apart

Graham Farmelo
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Dirac practiced theoretical physics for almost 60 years with a unique style: a sometimes baffling combination of intuition, imagination, rectilinear logic, and steam‐hammer mathematical power.
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Study of 1919 eclipse sparks talk of terms and terminology

Cyril Galvin and George L. Murphy
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Interpretations of climate‐change data

Nicola Scafetta, Bruce J. West, Benjamin R. Jordan, Philip Duffy, Benjamin Santer, and Tom Wigley
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Other climate‐change inputs

Brian A. Tinsley
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Complexities of cell differentiation

Sebastian Doniach
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Physics Today in stitches

Paul Fontana, Doug Martin, and Randolph Nanna
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Correction

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Survey of Andromeda's environs reveals relics of galactic cannibalism

Bertram Schwarzschild
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The Milky Way's nearest full‐grown neighbor—almost its twin—offers a unique opportunity for studying how galaxies grow.

Optical spectroscopy gains a third dimension

Johanna Miller
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An extension of a difficult optical technique provides unprecedented information about a semiconductor system.

Nanoscale phase competition accompanies colossal magnetoresistance

Charles Day
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Doped manganites manifest competing phases of different electronic and magnetic order. Thanks to a new technique, the phases' nanoscale battleground can now be mapped.

Physics Update

Richard J. Fitzgerald, Jermey N. A. Matthews, Steven K. Blau, Stephen G. Benka, and Johanna Miller
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International research university opens in Saudi Arabia

Toni Feder
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The well‐funded, strategically executed yet isolated experiment could fly or flop.

LLNL touts gamma‐ray source for nuclear detection

David Kramer
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Lab also sees applications in monitoring isotopic content of reactor fuel and assaying nuclear waste.

Congress rejects most of Chu's energy ‘Bell Lab‐lets’

David Kramer
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LLNL, industry team boost truck fuel efficiency

David Kramer
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Physics bachelors find jobs despite recession

Toni Feder
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News Notes

Toni Feder
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience

Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb, Catherine Westfall, and Charles Thorpe, Reviewer
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Collider: The Search for the World's Smallest Particles

Paul Halpern and Tom Ferbel, Reviewer
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Entropy and the Time Evolution of Macroscopic Systems

Walter T. Grandy, Jr and Peter Salamon, Reviewer
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Boulevard of Broken Symmetries: Effective Field Theories of Condensed Matter

Adriaan M. J. Schakel and Piers Coleman, Reviewer
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Theoretical Femtosecond Physics: Atoms and Molecules in Strong Laser Fields

Frank Grossmann and Franz X. Kärtner, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on materials

Andreas Mandelis
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Martin Jesse Klein

Raymond Mountain and Alan E. Shapiro
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Vladilen Stepanovich Letokhov

Rafael V. Ambartzumian, Petr G. Kryukov, Victor I. Balykin, and Evgeny A. Ryabov
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The surprising motion of ski moguls

David B. Bahr, W. Tad Pfeffer, and Raymond C. Browning
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A virtual CAVE

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