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

April 2009

Volume 62, Issue 4

Issue Cover
back to top
RSS Feeds
FREE

John Wheeler's work on particles, nuclei, and weapons

Kenneth W. Ford
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
For a time, Wheeler regarded nuclear physics as the best way to “do battle with nature.” But then he became attracted to the simplicity of the muon, which is immune to the strong nuclear force. He himself, however, could not escape the ramifications of that force in a world at war.

Mechanism of fission

John A. Wheeler
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
On a morning walk across the snowy Princeton campus early in 1939, Niels Bohr suddenly understood that the rare isotope uranium‐235 was alone responsible for the recently discovered nuclear fission.

John Wheeler, relativity, and quantum information

Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, and Wojciech H. Zurek
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
From the mid‐1950s on, John Wheeler's “radical conservative‐ism” allowed him to explore without fear crazy‐sounding ideas that often led to profound physical insights.

Introducing the black hole

Remo Ruffini and John A. Wheeler
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
According to present cosmology, certain stars end their careers in a total gravitational collapse that transcends the ordinary laws of physics.

John Wheeler's mentorship: An enduring legacy

Terry M. Christensen
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
“We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.”—John Archibald Wheeler, 1976
back to top
RSS Feeds
FREE

Western US droughts: Climate happens

Joseph G. Gallagher, Jr, Robert Ayers, and Barbara Levi
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

Talking points on talking points

Rustum Roy and Joe Smith
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

Engines for the 21st century

Geoffrey A. Landis
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

Exotic spin textures show up in diverse materials

Charles Day
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
A binary semiconductor, an insulating alloy, and a bulk ferromagnet can each be coaxed into manifesting new and different forms of spin coherence.

A nonbiological system offers insight into biological synchronization

Johanna Miller
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
Porous microparticles suspended in a reagent solution can make the transition to synchronous activity in two ways—one gradual, the other sudden.

A traveling‐wave approach to high‐field MRI

Mark Wilson
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

Physics Update

Bertram M. Schwarzschild, Charles Day, Stephen G. Benka, Jermey N. A. Matthews, and Richard J. Fitzgerald
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds
FREE

The universe, yours to discover

Toni Feder
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
Astronomy enthusiasts the world over are hosting activities from puppet shows to telescope viewings to get the public to say ‘wow!’

DOE, NSF get billions in R&D funding from stimulus act

David Kramer
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
Agencies are planning to quickly spend their shares of recovery monies; further budget increases are provided in omnibus spending bill.
FREE

‘Smart grid’ gets big stimulus from US recovery plan

David Kramer
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
An updated electric grid will be more reliable and secure, but some warn that investments should await industry standards.

CERN role in thriller is boon for public outreach

Toni Feder
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
FREE

Superconductors to boost wind power

Jermey N. A. Matthews
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Show Topic
More powerful generators are key to growing offshore wind farms.

New agency is proposed to run weapons labs

David Kramer
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

New Notes

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

Web Watch

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

Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius

Silvan S. Schweber and Robert Schulmann, Reviewer
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces

Frank Wilczek and Andreas S. Kronfeld, Reviewer
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers

Chris Gainor and Pangratios Papacosta, Reviewer
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable

Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming

Fred Krupp, Miriam Horn, and Mark A. Ratner, Reviewer
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds
FREE

Focus on nanoscience and technology

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

Arthur Robert Kantrowitz

Shao Chi Lin and Derek Teare
OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

The Hall effect and rocket flight

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

Gravity anomalies

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

New Books

OpenURL
find it @ Stanford
Lead Unavailable
Close

close