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Select this Article		Beyond quantum jumps: Blinking nanoscale light emitters Fernando D. Stefani, Jacob P. Hoogenboom, and Eli Barkai


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Select this Article FREE		Preparing high‐school physics teachers Theodore Hodapp, Jack Hehn, and Warren Hein


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Select this Article FREE		Simon Newcomb, America's first great astronomer William E. Carter and Merri Sue Carter


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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		What Sam said Daniel Kleppner


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LETTERS

Select this Article FREE		Geoengineering: What, how, and for whom? Robert A. Frosch and Kevin E. Trenberth


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Select this Article FREE		University of Tsukuba defends professor's dismissal Hiroshi Mizubayashi


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Select this Article FREE		Ode to the Large Hadron Collider Andrew Croal


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Select this Article FREE		Several sports have varying surfaces Christopher Sirola


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Select this Article FREE		Dental amalgam and mercury myths Berol Robinson, Jeffrey W. Stansbury, Christopher N. Bowman, and Sheldon M. Newman


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Select this Article FREE		An inner ear magneto‐receptor? Alan H. Purdy, Sönke Johnsen, and Kenneth J. Lohmann


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Experiments show blockading interaction of Rydberg atoms over long distances Bertram Schwarzschild


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Select this Article		Casimir forces between solids can be repulsive Johanna Miller


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Select this Article		A three‐dimensional x‐ray image of a single pair of human chromosomes Charles Day


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Select this Article		physics update Stephen Benka, Jermey N. A. Matthews, Charles Day, and Richard Fitzgerald


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ISSUES AND EVENTS

Select this Article		Michigan State wins contest to host DOE's rare isotope beam lab David Kramer


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Select this Article FREE		Commercial optical traps emerge from biophysics labs Jermey N. A. Matthews


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Select this Article		Holdren appointment confirms Obama's climate change focus David Kramer


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Select this Article		Spilhaus's long run at AGU helm ends Toni Feder


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Select this Article		DOD launches ‘genius’ awards Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Science and energy are big winners in House economic stimulus plan David Kramer


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Select this Article		As citizen scientists, students tackle societal problems Stephen G. Benka


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Select this Article		News Notes David Kramer, Toni Feder, and Jermey N. A. Matthews


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Select this Article		Web Watch Charles Day


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BOOKS

Select this Article		Riding the Waves: A Life in Sound, Science, and Industry Leo Beranek and Carl Rosenberg, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin Lawrence Weinstein, John A. Adam, and Harvey S. Leff, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Equilibrium Between Phases of Matter: Phenomenology and Thermodynamics H. A. J. Oonk, M. T. Calvet, and John C. Wheeler, Reviewer


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Select this Article		How Math Explains the World: A Guide to the Power of Numbers, from Car Repair to Modern Physics James D. Stein and Austin Gleeson, Reviewer


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Select this Article FREE		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article FREE		Focus on spectroscopy Lawrence G. Rubin


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Giuseppe Franco Bassani Manuel Cardona, Gianfranco Chiarotti, and Erio Tosatti


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Select this Article FREE		Ronald Harry Ottewill Peter N. Pusey and Brian Vincent


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QUICK STUDY

Select this Article		The no‐cloning theorem William K. Wootters and Wojciech H. Zurek


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BACK SCATTER

Select this Article		Mixing up surface properties


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APS MEETS IN PITTSBURGH

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Select this Article		APS show guide


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