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The Puzzle of Global Sea-Level Rise |
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Measuring the rate of sea-level rise over the past century requires modeling the behavior of Earth's crust over the past 20 000 years -- Bruce C. Douglas and W. Richard Peltier |
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Surface Acoustic Waves in Materials Science |
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Laser-generated surface waves provide new tools for studying material properties, from linear elastic behavior to fracture -- Peter Hess |
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A Personal Reflection on University Research Funding |
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A veteran researcher in materials science and engineering argues that research funding needs reform at both the university and funding-agency levels -- Howard K. Birnbaum |
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Readings from the Physics
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Physics Update |
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Letters |
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Physics First, Because the Atom Unlocks Science |
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Teller 'Exiled' Himself for Science |
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'Pipeline' Provides Physicists with Flexibility |
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Science in Franco's Spain |
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Fano Footnote |
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Correction |
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Search & Discovery |
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Warm Bedrock Forms Water beneath Rapidly Moving Ice Stream in Central Greenland |
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New measurements hint at the presence of a volcano underneath the Greenland ice sheet. |
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From Superfluid to Insulator: Bose-Einstein Condensate Undergoes a Quantum Phase Transition |
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The atoms in a BEC assemble gregariously into a coherent whole, but in a periodic potential that's sufficiently strong, they can separate into an array of isolated atoms. |
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Ultracold Neutrons Exhibit Quantum States in the Earth's Gravitational Field |
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Quantization imposes a lower limit on the energy of a neutron trapped in a gravitational potential well. |
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An Energy Recovery Linac Is Seen as a Bright Idea |
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Will some future light sources be based on linear accelerators rather than synchrotron storage rings? |
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Issues & Events |
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MIT Media Lab Spawns International Offshoots |
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Famed for its fun, quirky, high-tech research and for zipping together industry and academia, the MIT Media Lab is expanding at home and abroad. |
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Math and Science Suffer in Education Bill |
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The hundreds of millions of federal dollars that in past years supported training of elementary school math and science teachers have been redirected into new math and science partnerships, and the result may be less money for the teachers. |
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Neutrino Detector Lab Looking Good |
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In an old hematite mine far below the
ragged landscape of Minnesota's Iron Range, workers have installed
about one-quarter of the 486 octagonal steel "planes" that will
make up the $40 million 5500-ton "far detector" for Fermilab's
Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search experiment. |
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Powerful NMR Machines Debut in US |
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US laboratories are installing the first batch of 900-megahertz (21-tesla) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) machines months ahead of their European and Japanese competitors. |
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Bohr Letters Clarify Mystery |
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The Niels Bohr Archive in Copenhagen has posted on the Web 11 short documents, never before made public, relating to the controversial visit of Werner Heisenberg to Bohr in German occupied Denmark in 1941. |
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Kavli Endows ITP |
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The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics is how the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will soon be known, thanks to a $7.5 million gift from local entrepreneur Fred Kavli. |
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News Notes |
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Abraham approves Yucca Mountain; AGU journals online; Medical physics fellowships |
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Web Watch |
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World Nuclear Association and Nuclear Energy Institute; Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy; Time Service Department of the US Naval Observatory |
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Books |
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The Politics of Excellence: Behind the Nobel Prize in Science, Robert Marc Friedman
(reviewed by Helge Kragh) |
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Mechanics of Motor Proteins and the Cytoskeleton, Jonathon Howard (reviewed by
Alex Mogilner) |
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Elements of Modern X-Ray Physics, Jens Als-Nielsen and Des McMorrow (reviewed
by Ian Robinson) |
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Positron Physics, M. Charlton and J. W. Humberston (reviewed by Allen P. Mills Jr) |
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Photonics: Linear and Nonlinear Interactions of Laser Light and Matter, Ralf Menzel (reviewed by Elsa M. Garmire) |
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New Books |
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New Products |
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We Hear That |
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One-Time Wolfgang Paul Award Presented |
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Society of Rheology Prizes Given |
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APS to Present Awards in Albuquerque |
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Eighteen Scientists Garner IOP Prizes |
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Kroemer Wins IEEE Medal of Honor |
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Davis Is New ACA Vice President |
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In Brief |
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Obituaries |
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John Ralph Apel |
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Paul Falk-Vairant |
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Peter Mazur |
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Robert Alexander Mendelson Jr |
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Rein Silberberg |
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Robert Allen Sparks |
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Thomas Howard Stix |
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