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Select this Article FREE		The 18th‐century battle over lunar motion Siegfried Bodenmann


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Select this Article		The quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators Xiao‐Liang Qi and Shou‐Cheng Zhang


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Select this Article FREE		Bell Labs and the ruby laser Donald F. Nelson, Robert J. Collins, and Wolfgang Kaiser


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Select this Article FREE		Resuscitating industrial research without monopoly money Michael Riordan, Larry W. Sumney, Ralph K. Cavin, III, and Orville R. Butler


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Select this Article FREE		Newcomb looked to astronomy's future William E. Carter and Merri Sue Carter


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Select this Article		Optical cycling paves the way for laser‐cooled molecules Johanna Miller


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Select this Article		Graphene reveals the Hall‐mark of strongly interacting electrons Barbara Goss Levi


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Select this Article		Gamma‐ray telescopes show origins of cosmic rays Bertram Schwarzschild


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Select this Article		Physics Update Richard J. Fitzgerald, Jermey N. A. Matthews, Steven K. Blau, and Stephen G. Benka


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Select this Article FREE		Academic research, DOE facilities are buoyed by recovery act David Kramer


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Select this Article		Multiple detectors to watch for double beta decay Toni Feder


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Select this Article		US seeks science ties to salve relations with Muslim world David Kramer See Also: Erratum


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Select this Article		Nuclear waste dump doubles as low‐radiation site for science Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Web Watch Charles Day


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Select this Article		On Superconductivity and Superfluidity: A Scientific Autobiography Vitaly L. Ginzburg and Valery Pokrovsky, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Lives in Science: How Institutions Affect Academic Careers Joseph C. Hermanowicz and Robert C. Hilborn, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Advanced Condensed Matter Physics Leonard M. Sander and Karsten Flensberg, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and the Bomb David C. Cassidy and Alvin M. Saperstein, Reviewer


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Select this Article FREE		New Books


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Select this Article FREE		Focus on photonics and biomedical optics Andreas Mandelis


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QUICK STUDY

Select this Article		Gravitational‐wave detection via radio‐pulsar timing Paul Demorest, Joseph Lazio, and Andrea Lommen


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