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Physics News Update 1990 Index
Number 1 September 28, 1990
  1. FIFTH FORCE
  2. THE MAGELLAN SPACECRAFT
  3. SUPERCONDUCTORS BEYOND 123:
  4. GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE ASTRONOMY
  5. SOLAR CELLS
  6. METEOR COMPOSITION
Number 2 October 4, 1990
  1. SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
  2. LASER COOLING DOWN TO MICROKELVIN
  3. AMERICAN VACUUM SOCIETY MEETING IN TORONTO
  4. THE MOST PUBLISHED PHYSICIST OF THE PAST DECADE
  5. A NEW FORM OF PURE SOLID CARBON
Number 3 October 11, 1990
  1. THE SOLAR NEUTRINO PROBLEM PERSISTS
  2. THE COMPACT IGNITION TOKAMAK
  3. INHIBITION OF SPONTANEOUS EMISSION
Number 4 October 17, 1990
  1. THE 1990 NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS
Number 5 October 18, 1990
  1. SUPERNOVA 1987A PULSAR
  2. INDIUM-PHOSPHIDE CLUSTERS
  3. THE OZONE HOLE OVER ANTARCTICA
  4. THE SUPERSTRING THEORY
  5. THE AIP SCIENCE WRITING AWARD
Number 6 October 25, 1990
  1. A NEW MEASUREMENT OF THE W BOSON MASS
  2. THE SEARCH FOR THE ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENT
  3. THE SPACECRAFT ULYSSES
  4. PREDICTING EARTHQUAKES IS STILL A SHAKY SCIENCE
  5. SATURN'S LARGE WHITE SPOT
Number 7 November 1, 1990
  1. 650,000 Z PARTICLES
  2. HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR (HST) APPLICATIONS
  3. A SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPE WITH A GOLD TIP
  4. NEPTUNE'S MOON TRITON
  5. BRAZILIAN PULSAR DISAPPEARS.
Number 8 November 12, 1990
  1. USING COMPUTER ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUES
  2. SPIN EFFECTS IN PROTON-PROTON SCATTERING
  3. IS THERE A BLACK HOLE AT THE CENTER OF THE MILKY WAY?
  4. ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS OF OCEAN TEMPERATURES
  5. ARE EARTHQUAKES CHAOTIC? ARE FAULTS FRACTAL?
Number 9 November 20, 1990
  1. HYPERBRANCHED MACROMOLECULES,
  2. DID A METEOR IMPACT KILL THE DINOSAURS?
  3. THE LARGEST AND MOST LUMINOUS GALAXY
  4. CHAOTIC CONDITIONS DO NOT INSURE EFFICIENT MIXING
  5. THE TRAJECTORIES OF PARTICLES UNDERGOING A CHEMICAL REACTION
Number 10 November 27, 1990
  1. A SODIUM NEBULA AROUND JUPITER
  2. AFTER 75 YEARS GENERAL RELATIVITY
  3. EXTREMELY LIGHT AEROGELS,
  4. SATURN'S GREAT WHITE SPOT
  5. SOLID STATE MICROBATTERIES
  6. A COLD FUSION CONFERENCE AT BRIGHAM YOUNG
Number 11 December 3, 1990
  1. HERA, THE ELECTRON-PROTON COLLIDER
  2. LIGHT-FRONT TAMM-DANCOFF (LFTD)
  3. A PROTON ACCELERATOR FOR CANCER THERAPY
  4. THE CRAF AND CASINI SPACECRAFT
Number 12 December 10, 1990
  1. VENUS IS STILL VOLCANICALLY ACTIVE,
  2. ASTEROID IMPACTS KILLED THE DINOSAURS
  3. WORLD CLIMATE CHANGE
  4. THE KECK TELESCOPE
Number 13 December 17, 1990
  1. A DIGITAL SKY SURVEY
  2. CONDUCTING POLYMERS
  3. THE VERY LARGE TELESCOPE (VLT)
  4. A WIGNER CRYSTAL
  5. WAVELET TRANSFORMS
Number 14 December 27, 1990
  1. THE SOLAR NEUTRINO FLUX
  2. ORGANIC TRANSISTORS
  3. THE SOCCER-BALL STRUCTURE OF CARBON
  4. THE ASTRO OBSERVATORY
  5. TOP AND BOTTOM QUARKS