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June 2009

Volume 62, Issue 6

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Probing stars with optical and near‐IR interferometry

Theo ten Brummelaar, Michelle Creech‐Eakman, and John Monnier
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New high‐resolution data and images, derived from the light gathered by separated telescopes, are revealing that stars are not always as they seem.

Auralization of spaces

Michael Vorländer
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Being able to determine and re-create what a room sounds like is useful not only in concert halls and opera houses but also in classrooms, houses, and virtual reality.

Plasticity and toughness in bone

Robert O. Ritchie, Markus J. Buehler, and Paul Hansma
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Our bones are full of microscopic cracks, but the hierarchical character of the bones' structure—from molecular to macroscopic scales—makes them remarkably resistant to fracture.
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Berkeley loyalty oath tested politics, fear—not loyalty

Kenneth W. Ford, Howard D. Greyber, Robert P. Crease, and J. D. Jackson
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Physics contest could honor student, school

Costas J. Efthimiou
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Recharging the batteries

Allen E. Fuhs and Héctor Abruña
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Correction

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Carefully timed radio pulses sustain quantum phase

Charles Day
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After subtle modifications, a technique borrowed from nuclear magnetic resonance can suppress the bane of quantum information processing: decoherence.

Balloon‐borne telescope resolves cosmic far‐IR background into starburst galaxies

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Their distribution of redshifts manifests the falling cosmic rate of star formation since its heyday some two billion years after the Big Bang.

Meteor trails track upper atmospheric winds

Mark Wilson
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An old technique gets a makeover using radar that combines high power and interferometry.

Resonant radio waves rotate tokamak plasma

Charles Day
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An experiment at MIT's Alcator tokamak has demonstrated a technique that could make fusion plasma easier to confine.

Physics Update

Stephen Benka, Richard Fitzgerald, Jermey N. A. Matthews, and Mark Wilson
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US photovoltaics industry may be too small for Obama's big solar energy plans

David Kramer
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But a government‐industry consortium might provide a boost for US PV manufacturers.
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Florence fetes Galileo

Toni Feder
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But a government‐industry consortium might provide a boost for US PV manufacturers.

Marburger calls for a new academic field of study in ‘the science of science policy’

David Kramer
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Science adviser to George W. Bush says researchers, models, and decision tools could bring more rationality to science budgets and policies.

Austria averts CERN withdrawal

Toni Feder
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Nuclear museum reopens in New Mexico

Toni Feder
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German center takes new collaborative form for FEL science

Toni Feder
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News Notes

David Kramer
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius

Hans C. Ohanian and Michel Janssen, Reviewer
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Cosmology

Steven Weinberg and J. Richard Bond, Reviewer
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Quantum Computing Explained

David McMahon and K. Birgitta Whaley, Reviewer
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Air‐Ice‐Ocean Interaction: Turbulent Ocean Boundary Layer Exchange Processes

Miles McPhee and Mary‐Louise Timmermans, Reviewer
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Focus on sensors

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Rogue waves

Chris Garrett and Johannes Gemmrich
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A different kind of volcano

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New Books

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