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September 2010

Volume 63, Issue 9

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The freedom of confinement in complex fluids

Amy Q. Shen and Perry Cheung
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When it comes to self‐assembly of photonic, drug‐delivery, and biomimetic materials, big opportunities can be found in small spaces.
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The discovery of superconductivity

Dirk van Delft and Peter Kes
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A century ago Heike Kamerlingh Onnes set a new standard for physics research laboratories. But careless notebook entries have confused the story of his greatest discovery.

Imaging with ambient noise

Roel Snieder and Kees Wapenaar
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Whether noise is a nuisance or a signal depends on how it's processed. By cross‐correlating noise recorded at two sensors, researchers can retrieve the waves that propagate between them and extract details about the intervening medium.
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Empirical incompleteness and the search for a theory of everything

Marcelo Gleiser
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HBCUs need better marketing

Carlton Davis and Quinton L. Williams
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Scientific societies should speak out

Alfred B. Bortz
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Forging more effective science conferences

Ludwik Kowalski
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Bologna reforms in Germany

Gerd Ulrich Nienhaus
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Historical perspective on spin‐polarized tunneling

Stephan von Molnár
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When Holmdel lab opened for business

Gene H. McCall
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Femtosecond snapshots capture atomic motion in a powdered solid

Johanna Miller
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A new technique sets the stage for ultrafast diffraction studies of materials that can't easily be crystallized.

Radio waves map matter without counting galaxies

Johanna Miller
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A new technique for charting the large‐scale structure of the universe has received its first experimental demonstration.

Laser‐generated bubbles take aim at a cell membrane

Mark Wilson
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Physics Update

Bertram M. Schwarzschild, Charles Day, Jermey N. A. Matthews, Steven K. Blau, Richard J. Fitzgerald, and Stephen G. Benka
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‘Copilot in chief’ Augustine takes on space, energy, and education

Jermey N. A. Matthews
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Prior to his retirement in 1997, the aerospace industry executive advised five US presidents on science and technology policy. He's still at it 13 years later.

NSF speeds funding for research on BP oil spill

David Kramer
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Sopping up oil with new materials, mapping the subsurface plume, and accelerating biodegradation of the slick are among dozens of time‐sensitive research projects receiving grants.

Global R&D spending up, US industry spending down

Jermey N. A. Matthews
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China, others dig more and deeper underground labs

Toni Feder
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From tiny to gargantuan, experiments are in the works to exploit the shielding from cosmic rays that being deep underground offers.

Physics olympiad meets in Croatia

Toni Feder
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Physics bachelors at work

Toni Feder
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News Notes

Toni Feder
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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The Science on Women and Science

Christina Hoff Sommers and Amy L. R. Bug, Reviewer
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The Stability of Matter in Quantum Mechanics

Elliott H. Lieb, Robert Seiringer, and Joachim Stubbe, Reviewer
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Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890–1926

Suman Seth and Eugen Merzbacher, Reviewer
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Optical Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications

Wenshan Cai, Vladimir Shalaev, and Dilip K. Paul, Reviewer
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The Hancocks of Marlborough: Rubber, Art, and the Industrial Revolution: A Family of Inventive Genius

John Loadman, Francis James, and Christine MacLeod, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on spectroscopy

Andreas Mandelis
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Indrek Martinson

Lorenzo J. Curtis
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Robert Vivian Pound

Paul Horowitz
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Vortices and tall buildings: A recipe for resonance

Peter A. Irwin
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NanoFET bioprobe

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