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October 2010

Volume 63, Issue 10

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Shaping optical space with metamaterials

Martin Wegener and Stefan Linden
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By controlling the local electric and magnetic properties of a material, researchers can tailor the flow of light and create exotic optical devices.

Multiferroics: Past, present, and future

Nicola A. Spaldin, Sang‐Wook Cheong, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh
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Working in concert, theorists and experimentalists have found promising new ways to get two traditional foes—ferroelectricity and magnetism—to coexist.
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The evolution of the science museum

Alan J. Friedman
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Once resources for the scholar and serious student, science museums are now dedicated to public education. But just how institutions define and meet their educational goals is a continuing story.
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Heavy‐ion fusion in the US

C. Martin Stickley
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Amending the story of helium‐3

Daniel Jassby, Wayne Garber, and Stan Sykora
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Reflections on Franck and photosynthesis

Robert M. Pearlstein
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Loudness, pitch, and Feynman's ear

Bernard H. Soffer
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The lowdown on siphons

Alan Harris
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Smarter use of rare earths

Stanley R. Trout
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A brief lesson in viscosity

David A. Cornell, Clifford V. Johnson, and Peter Steinberg
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Correction

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Flavor oscillation may be different in neutrinos and antineutrinos

Bertram Schwarzschild
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An unanticipated violation of matter–antimatter symmetry could reconcile conflicting experimental evidence about the possible existence of sterile neutrinos.

Isotope ratios hint at a piece of pristine Earth

Johanna Miller
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Could any material on Earth have remained isolated and undisturbed for 4.5 billion years? And if it did, how could we tell?

Putting quantum gases under the microscope

Barbara Goss Levi
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Microscopes with single‐site resolution are vital for using ultracold atoms to simulate strongly correlated electrons in solids.

Physics Update

Charles Day, Jermey N. A. Matthews, Steven K. Blau, and Ashley G. Smart
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Obama announces reforms to simplify and reduce export controls

David Kramer
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Universities welcome efforts to scale back federal controls over campus research by foreign nationals.

US astronomy community sets plan to fit tight times

Toni Feder
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Balance, flexibility, and broad science mark the latest decadal survey. And, nitpicking aside, the survey is finding wide endorsement among astronomers and astrophysicists.
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Suborbital research hitches a ride on commercial space cruisers

Toni Feder
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NASA hires industry to transport scientific payloads bound for microgravity environments.

The state of physics in US high schools

Toni Feder
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News Notes

Toni Feder
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Recently on Physics Today online

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Quantum Theory at the Crossroads: Reconsidering the 1927 Solvay Conference

Guido Bacciagaluppi, Antony Valentini, and Martin Jähnert, Reviewer
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Polarisation: Applications in Remote Sensing

S. R. Cloude and Howard Zebker, Reviewer
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Cremona Violins: A Physicist's Quest for the Secrets of Stradivari

Kameshwar C. Wali and Gabriel Weinreich, Reviewer
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The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence

Paul Davies and Richard Carrigan, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

Andreas Mandelis
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Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge

Jayant V. Narlikar
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Albert Victor Crewe

Lee C. Teng and Roger H. Hildebrand
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Boris Peter Stoicheff

Richard G. Brewer
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The customized reflections of freeform mirrors

R. Andrew Hicks
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Multiferroic vortices

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