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March 2010

Volume 63, Issue 3

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Physics in China

Charles Day
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In its range and depth, physics in China is much like physics in other big, technologically advanced countries. The historical, political, and social contexts, however, are China's own.

Universal insights from few‐body land

Chris H. Greene
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The ability to tune atomic interactions has inspired theorists and experimentalists to investigate those properties of few‐particle systems that hold universally, regardless of the specific nature of the interparticle force.

Ultracold neutral plasmas

Thomas C. Killian and Steven L. Rolston
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By ionizing cold atoms or molecules with a laser, researchers get a glimpse of one of nature's extreme regimes, in which many usual rules and approximations no longer apply.
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London bridge's wobble and sway

Bernard J. Feldman
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Frame dragging on flybys

Allen D. Allen, Michael Martin Nieto, and John D. Anderson
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Carbon from coal plants

Robert L. Parker
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Electrostatic trick might affect human body

Walter Margulis
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Inspired by a century of physics

Martin U. Castillo
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Human discoveries predated by nature

Michael Lewis
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Costs of raising the bar for medical physicists

Gregory A. Davis
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Spatial coherence from ducks

Wayne H. Knox, Miguel Alonso, and Emil Wolf
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Correction

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A complex symmetry arises at a spin chain's quantum critical point

Barbara Goss Levi
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The relation between the E8 Lie group and the mass excitations in the Ising model was predicted more than 20 years ago, but seeing it is an experimental coup.
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Diffraction around the head makes hearers mislocate sound sources

Bertram Schwarzschild
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When light is obstructed by a small sphere, diffraction creates a bright spot at the center of the sphere's shadow. Psychoacousticians are studying the acoustic analogue of that bright spot.

Holograms tie optical vortices in knots

Mark Wilson
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Using techniques from mathematics and optical wavefront engineering, researchers demonstrate that lines of zero intensity in a light beam can be shaped into links and loops of arbitrary topology.

Model sheds light on the language of color

Johanna Miller
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The process by which human societies collectively decide which segments of the visible spectrum get their own names can be studied by computer simulation.

Physics Update

Jermey N. A. Matthews, Steven K. Blau, Stephen G. Benka, Johanna L. Miller, and Richard J. Fitzgerald
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New neutron source aims to be top in energy and environmental stewardship

Toni Feder
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From windmills to green roofs, the European Spallation Source may be setting a trend for major scientific facilities.

A voice for Africa's physicists

Toni Feder
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Roundtable participants find near‐consensus on free access to results of publicly funded research

David Kramer
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Publishers and subscribers urge agencies to freely distribute scientific journal articles based on federally sponsored research.

ArXiv survival tied to new funding model

Paul Guinnessy
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Government handling of helium gets report card: Think again

Toni Feder
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Science Board details China's leap in science and technology

David Kramer
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News Notes

David Kramer
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Introduction to Modern Traffic Flow Theory and Control: The Long Road to Three‐Phase Traffic Theory

Boris S. Kerner and L. Craig Davis, Reviewer
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Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science and Mind and Nature: Selected Writings on Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics

Hermann Weyl and Jeremy Butterfield, Reviewer
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Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics: Basic Theory and Advanced Methods

Dominik Marx, Jürg Hutter, and Donald G. Truhlar, Reviewer
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Gamma‐Ray Bursts: The Brightest Explosions in the Universe

Gilbert Vedrenne, Jean‐Luc Atteia, and Lynn Cominsky, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on test and measurement

Andreas Mandelis
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Frank James Low

George Rieke
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Slow antihydrogen

Gerald Gabrielse
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A new VISTA on the southern sky

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