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March 2013

Volume 66, Issue 3

cover: In this image of a tadpole embryo, the developing stomach is highlighted in blue and pink. Recent research has shown that the position and left–right asymmetry of the stomach and other organs are dictated by bioelectric gradients, which can be manipulated by genetic and pharmacological tools. To learn more about new results in bioelectric signaling, turn to the story on page 16. (Image courtesy of Michael Levin, Tufts University.)

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Back to the beginning of quantum spacetime

Martin Bojowald
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In loop quantum gravity, spacetime emerges from excitations of an ultimate vacuum.
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1932, a watershed year in nuclear physics

Joseph Reader and Charles W. Clark
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The consequences, for good and ill, of that annus mirabilis of discovery and invention are still very much with us.

Exotic physics with slow neutrons

W. Michael Snow
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Sensitive experiments with low-energy neutrons are helping to unravel mysteries of cosmology, gravitation, and the standard model of particle physics.
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back to top Revisiting Riccioli’s free-fall calculations
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Revisiting Riccioli’s free-fall calculations

Patrick Warren
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Revisiting Riccioli’s free-fall calculations

Dietrich Leibfried
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Revisiting Riccioli’s free-fall calculations

Christopher M. Graney
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Online Friedmann resource

Carlo Beenakker
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back to top A flight of fancy: Newton in love
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A flight of fancy: Newton in love

Ilya Yashin
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back to top Chephren pyramid: Finding something in finding nothing
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Chephren pyramid: Finding something in finding nothing

W. Peter Trower
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Correction

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Dwarf galaxies orbit Andromeda in a surprisingly thin plane

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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The Milky Way’s nearby twin is a good place to look for evidence of how galaxies form.

Nanowire solar cells made efficient

R. Mark Wilson
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An array of semiconducting nanowires can absorb nearly as much light as a thin film but at lower cost.
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Bioelectric signaling controls tissue shape and structure

Johanna L. Miller
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Manipulating those signals in just the right way may have applications in regenerative and cancer medicine.
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Blood plasma not so simple after all

Ashley G. Smart
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A twisted tale of a possibly precessing pulsar

Steven K. Blau
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Mercury levels in the South China Sea

Charles Day
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Threading DNA through a nanopore

Richard J. Fitzgerald
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Momentum grows to build International Linear Collider in Japan

Toni Feder
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Signals from high-energy physics communities in other regions are key to Japan’s going forward with a proposal to host the particle accelerator.
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Internet startups look to reinvent higher education

Jermey N. A. Matthews
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Massive open online courses promise a convenient, low-cost experience, but high dropout rates threaten to slow their growth.
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Iowa lab gets critical materials research center

David Kramer
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The DOE hub is set to be the largest R&D effort toward alleviating the global shortage of rare-earth metals.

Tighter security ahead for nuclear materials in health care

David Kramer
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New requirements in 2014 will formalize the controls on radiological sources that have been implemented since the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.

Axe hangs over RHIC

Toni Feder
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Strength in numbers

Toni Feder
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The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos

Fernando Quevedo, Reviewer
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The New Quantum Age: From Bell’s Theorem to Quantum Computation and Teleportation

Daniel Gottesman, Reviewer
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Essentials of Hamiltonian Dynamics

Anton Gorodetski, Reviewer
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New books

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Focus on test and measurement

Andreas Mandelis
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Stuart Jay Freedman

Robert N. Cahn and R. G. Hamish Robertson
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What trapped atoms reveal about global groundwater

Zheng-Tian Lu
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Atom-trap trace analysis can reliably detect age-revealing noble-gas isotopes whose isotopic abundances are as low as 1 part in 1016.
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Visualizing DNA biomechanics

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