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February 2010

Volume 63, Issue 2

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Multiwave imaging and super resolution

Mathias Fink and Mickael Tanter
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Interactions between different kinds of waves can yield medical images that beat the single‐wave resolution limit.

The first wetting layer on a solid

Peter J. Feibelman
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For decades researchers imagined that hydrogen bonding imposes a hexagonal, icelike arrangement on the first water molecules on a solid. Recent theory and experiments argue for a richer view.

Hearing music in ensembles

Diana Deutsch
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Musical illusions created in the laboratory or concert hall provide insight on how the brain regroups auditory inputs.
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Making science accessible and scientists human

Bill Gill, William DeBuvitz, and Alexander Scheeline
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A light correction

Jay M. Pasachoff
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Galileo, Kepler share IYA anniversary

Michael Lieber
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Muons, deuterium, and cold fusion

Jacques Read
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Anachrony in decoherence

Robert A. Harris and Leo Stodolsky
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A reader asks: No classical electroweak theory?

James McEnnan
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Underground detector yields tantalizing hint of dark matter

Bertram Schwarzschild
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The dark matter that dominates the rotation and clustering of galaxies is thought to consist of heavy, weakly interacting particles not yet known but much sought after.

Neutral atoms are entangled in hyperfine states via Rydberg blockade

Johanna Miller
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An interaction between highly excited atoms can be used to engineer a superposition of low‐energy quantum states, as two research groups now demonstrate.

Explaining the two‐toned nature of Iapetus

Mark Wilson
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Physics Update

Richard J. Fitzgerald, Stephen G. Benka, Steven K. Blau, and R. Mark Wilson
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Obama, Detroit push the limits of electric vehicle batteries

David Kramer
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The first plug‐in hybrid and all‐electric cars are just around the corner, but their batteries still need work.

Accelerator school travels university circuit

Toni Feder
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With the use of accelerators on the rise, a mobile school aims to fill in where universities fall short.

Cuts to science budget moderated in Japan

Toni Feder
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Even as it breathes a sigh of relief, Japan's research community worries about the negative message the government's attack on science conveyed to the country's young people.

UK slashes physics budget

Paul Guinnessy
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US scientists step up their efforts at diplomacy

David Kramer
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With recent visits to North Korea and Cuba, US scientists are seeking interactions with their peers to open channels of communication.

Web Watch

Charles Day
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Finding the Big Bang

P. James E. Peebles, Lyman A. Page, Jr, R. Bruce Partridge, and John C. Mather, Reviewer
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Complexity: A Guided Tour

Melanie Mitchell and Zoltán Toroczkai, Reviewer
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Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics

Fulvio Melia and David Ballantyne, Reviewer
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The Fundamental Constants: A Mystery of Physics

Harald Fritzsch and Grant Mathews, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on bioinstrumentation and biotechnologies

Andreas Mandelis
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Edward Alan Knapp

L. M. Simmons, Jr
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Hans Wolfgang Liepmann

Roddam Narasimha
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The cytoskeleton: I‐beams of the cell

Joshua Shaevitz and Simon Nørrelykke
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Black soot and Tibetan glaciers

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