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May 2009

Volume 62, Issue 5

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Photoacoustics for molecular imaging and therapy

Stanislav Y. Emelianov, Pai‐Chi Li, and Matthew O'Donnell
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Sound waves generated by light are the basis of a sensitive medical imaging technique with applications to cancer diagnosis and treatment.
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Heterogeneities in granular materials

Anita Mehta, Gary C. Barker, and Jean‐Marc Luck
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Different parts of a sandpile can exhibit very different dynamical behaviors ranging from jammed to fluid. To understand them, one needs to look at the networks of contacts between individual grains.
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The detection and characterization of exoplanets

Jonathan I. Lunine, Bruce Macintosh, and Stanton Peale
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The variety of methods by which planets beyond our solar system can be found will lead to the detection and eventual characterization of Earth‐size bodies orbiting their stars at hospitable distances.
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What's bad about this habit

N. David Mermin
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ॅॆे, Hoyle, and the history of nucleosynthesis

David Arnett, George Wallerstein, Ken Croswell, and Michael S. Turner
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Calming the waters around Santa Barbara

Barry Keller and James R. Fleming
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Parallel issues in nanotech, climate science

Wolfgang Knorr
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Conferences are avenue for getting published

Fred E. Camfield
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Knives determine ages of humans

Roger Musson
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New kind of ultralong dimers are observed

Charles Day
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The dimeric bond joins the chemists' familiar roster of ionic, covalent, hydrogen, and van der Waals.

The competition is gaining on platinum as a catalyst for hydrogen fuel cells

Barbara Goss Levi
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A new iron‐based catalyst is active enough to compete with its expensive rival, but more work is needed to make a viable fuel cell.

Ice chains on copper are built from pentagons

Johanna Miller
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Magnetic waves pervade the Sun's corona

Charles Day
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Alfvén waves manifest magnetism's dominance of coronal dynamics. Whether they heat the Sun's corona remains uncertain.

Physics Update

Bertram Schwarschild, Stephen Benka, Jermey N. A. Matthews, and Richard Fitzgerald
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Hunkered down, academe waits for the full fallout of the economic crisis

Toni Feder
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With academic jobs an early victim of the fiscal slump, many in the rising generation may have little choice but to leave science.
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Recession blurs outlook for corporate research

Jermey N. A. Matthews
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Companies are reducing costs by canceling high-risk R&D projects or moving them to alliances with academia, federal laboratories, and other companies.

Science representatives seek to ease tensions in Middle East

David Kramer
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US science delegation visits Syria with hope of improving bilateral relations. Similar overtures with Iran suffer a setback.

LLNL's laser fusion facility complete, but will it work?

David Kramer
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Medical physics standardizes clinical training

Toni Feder
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Public safety is the motivation behind new requirements for becoming certified as a medical physicist.

New Argonne head is chosen

David Kramer
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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The Quantum Ten: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition and Science

Sheilla Jones and Michael Eckert, Reviewer
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Statistical Physics of Particles and Statistical Physics of Fields

Mehran Kardar and David Chandler, Reviewer
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Galactic Dynamics

James Binney, Scott Tremaine, and Ken Freeman, Reviewer
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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

Leonard Susskind and Don Page, Reviewer
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Focus on lasers and optics

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Nikolai Borisovich Delone

Vladimir P. Krainov, Gérard Mainfray, See Leang Chin, Joseph H. Eberly, Pierre Agostini, and Mikhail V. Fedorov
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Follow the light: Ellipsometry and polarimetry

Hans Arwin and David E. Aspnes
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Viruses in 3D

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CLEO∕IQEC 2009 meets in Baltimore

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New Books

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