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1993 Index
Number 109 January 8, 1993
  1. THE TEMPERATURE OF THE UNIVERSE IS 2.726 K
  2. A DENSE CLUMP OF DARK MATTER
  3. A SOURCE OF INFRARED RADIATION HAS BEEN DISCOVERED NEAR THE GALACTIC CENTER
Number 110 January 15, 1993
  1. ATOMIC HYDROGEN IN A MAGNETIC TRAP
  2. STELLAR OBSERVATIONS WITH 2-MILLIARCSECOND RESOLUTION
  3. BUCKYBALLS EMIT LIGHT
Number 111 January 21, 1993
  1. SQUID DETECTORS OPERATING IN THE MILLIATTOVOLT
  2. CHANGES IN THE EARTH'S ROTATION RATE
  3. HOW ELEMENTARY PARTICLES COME TO HAVE THE MASS THEY DO
  4. BRIGHTNESS VARIATIONS IN SUN-LIKE STARS
Number 112 January 28, 1993
  1. THE FLUX OF COSMIC RAYS FROM THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD
  2. THE RACE IS ON TO ACHIEVE BOSE CONDENSATION
  3. THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE SERVICING MISSION
  4. APPLICATIONS OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING (HTS)
Number 113 February 3, 1993
  1. THE SHAPE OF PARTICLE JETS
  2. CARBON NANOTUBES FILLED WITH ATOMIC MATERIAL
  3. THE VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY (VLBA)
  4. THE INSTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE
Number 114 February 17, 1993
  1. ULTRAHIGH-GRADIENT ACCELERATION OF INJECTED ELECTRONS
  2. THE AXIAL TILT OF MARS SHIFTS CHAOTICALLY
Number 115 February 25, 1993
  1. THE HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN REDSHIFT SURVEY
  2. THE LITHIUM-11 NUCLEUS
  3. THE CLOSEST KNOWN PULSAR, PSR J0437-4715 (
Number 116 March 3, 1993
  1. NEW MEASUREMENTS OF CP-VIOLATION
  2. GEMINGA'S PROPER MOTION
  3. PRINCETON'S INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY
Number 117 March 8, 1993
  1. HEALTHY AND DISEASED HEARTS
  2. THE EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET EXPLORER (EUVE)
  3. MANIPULATING BEAMS OF ATOMS
  4. SUPERMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
Number 118 March 12, 1993
  1. MYSTERIOUS DI-PHOTON EVENTS
  2. HELIUM CAN FORM DIATOMIC MOLECULES
  3. ARTIFICIAL ATOMS
  4. ICE-AGE CAVE ART
Number 119 March 19, 1993
  1. ELECTRONIC-MAIL CIRCULATION OF PHYSICS ARTICLES
  2. THE ADVANCED NEUTRON SOURCE (ANS)
  3. THE BERRY PHASE
  4. A 2.7-M LIQUID TELESCOPE MIRROR
Number 120 March 26, 1993
  1. LIGHT WAVES CAN BE USED AS A LENS
  2. CARBON BUCKYTUBES
  3. POLYMERS CAN BE USED TO MAKE HOLOGRAMS
Number 121 March 31, 1993
  1. OPTICAL AMPLIFICATION WITHOUT POPULATION INVERSION
  2. A MERCURY-BARIUM COPPER OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTOR
  3. NEURAL NOISE
Number 122 April 6, 1993
  1. THE CASIMIR-POLDER FORCE
  2. THE FORMATION OF THE INNER PLANETS
  3. IN THE STARBURST MODEL
  4. SCIENCE WRITERS
Number 123 April 9, 1993
  1. INTERSTELLAR DUST HAS BEEN DETECTED
  2. TROPOSPHERIC RIVERS
  3. BUCKYBALL MOLECULAR FUSION
  4. THE PHYSICS TEACHER
  5. THE NATIONAL LABS
Number 124 April 16, 1993
  1. SUPERNOVA 1993J
  2. THE TOP QUARK
Number 125 April 22, 1993
  1. NEW MEASUREMENTS OF ATOMIC MASSES
  2. ASTROPHYSICAL GAMMA RAY BURSTS COME IN TWO FORMS
  3. NEUTRAL CURRENTS IN NUCLEI
Number 126 April 28, 1993
  1. A NEW VERSION OF YOUNG'S INTERFERENCE EXPERIMENT
  2. THE RATE OF HELIUM BURNING IN MASSIVE STARS
  3. THE EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET (EUV)
  4. A BIPOLAR SPIN SWITCH
Number 127 May 5, 1993
  1. THE OPPOSITION EFFECT OF THE MOON
  2. NIST-7, THE WORLD'S BEST CLOCK,
  3. MARC. H. BRODSKY WILL BE THE NEXT DIRECTOR OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (AIP)
  4. HELIUM ATOM SCATTERING (HAS)
  5. A COMETARY BREAKUP
Number 128 May 11, 1993
  1. A RECORD HIGH SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE
  2. VERY LOOSELY BOUND NEGATIVE IONS
  3. SEARCHES FOR NONZERO ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTS
  4. PREDICTIONS OF RATIOS OF CERTAIN HADRON MASSES
Number 129 May 19, 1993
  1. OPTICAL CRYSTALS
  2. CLUSTERS OF FULLERENE MOLECULES
  3. REVERSIBLE COMPUTATION AND REVERSIBLE LOGIC
  4. PHYSICS BACHELOR DEGREES
Number 130 May 27, 1993
  1. A NEW RADIATION BELT AROUND THE EARTH
  2. THE INTERSTELLAR SPACE THAT SURROUNDS OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
  3. INTELLIGENT GELS
  4. THE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH COUNCIL (SERC)
Number 131 June 3, 1993
  1. RADIO SIGNALS FROM THE HELIOPAUSE
  2. PURIFIED DIAMOND HAS THE HIGHEST THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY
  3. LUMINESCENCE IN POROUS SILICON
Number 132 June 10, 1993
  1. THE STM CAN NOW DISTINGUISH AMONG SIMILAR MOLECULES
  2. VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASERS (VCSEL's)
  3. WHY DO LARGE THINGS RISE TO THE TOP?
Number 133 June 17, 1993
  1. THE WAVELIKE NATURE OF ELECTRONS
  2. COMET SHOEMAKER-LEVY 9
  3. THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD
  4. WHERE DOES THE NEUTRON GET ITS SPIN?
Number 134 June 24, 1993
  1. FERMAT'S LAST THEOREM HAS BEEN PROVED
  2. AN EXPLANATION IS EMERGING FOR SONOLUMINESCENCE
  3. SINGLE-LAYER CARBON NANOTUBES
  4. THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY BUDGET
Number 135 July 1, 1993
  1. DURING THE LAST THREE MINUTES
  2. NEUTRINO MASS AND SOLAR NEUTRINO UPDATE
  3. RADIOACTIVE BEAMS
  4. EXPECTED DEVELOPMENTS AND DISCOVERIES IN ASTRONOMY
Number 136 July 9, 1993
  1. MOLECULAR-LEVEL "AND" LOGIC-GATE
  2. THE ANNUAL PERSEID METEOR SHOWER
  3. THE ADVANCED LIGHT SOURCE (ALS)
  4. THE TWO DETECTOR FACILITIES PLANNED FOR THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER (LHC)
  5. THE JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (JVST)
Number 137 July 19, 1993
  1. NEUTRINO LASING IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE
  2. THE X-RAY EMITTING TAIL OF A PULSAR
  3. NEAR-INFRARED IMAGES OF VENUS
  4. THE INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS OLYMPIAD
  5. LEAD-CONTAINING SOLDERS
Number 138 July 26, 1993
  1. THE QUANTUM WAVE FUNCTION OF LIGHT
  2. THE ANDROMEDA GALAXY HAS A DOUBLE NUCLEUS
  3. THE LIQUID SCINTILLATOR NEUTRINO DETECTOR (LSND)
Number 139 August 10, 1993
  1. A STRONTIUM-COPPER-OXIDE COMPOUND
  2. URANUS IS NOT A FEATURELESS BALL
  3. HORIZON 2000
  4. 1346 PHYSICS PHD'S WERE AWARDED
  5. SPACECRAFT UPDATE
Number 140 August 13, 1993
  1. NANOTUBES LESS THAN 1 NM IN DIAMETER
  2. PENGUIN EVENTS ARE SEEN AT CORNELL
  3. THE HIGHEST MAGNETIZATION FOR A MATERIAL
  4. BUCKYBALLS MIGHT HAVE A LIQUID PHASE
  5. LANDMARKS ON VENUS
Number 141 August 25, 1993
  1. WHY DON'T MORE SUPERNOVAS LEAVE BEHIND PULSARS?
  2. WHAT MAKES AN HOURGLASS TICK?
  3. THE WORLD IS MADE MOSTLY OF GLUE
Number 142 September 1, 1993
  1. TIME-DOMAIN OPTICAL MEMORY
  2. IDA, A 20-MILE WIDE ASTEROID
  3. GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE (GMR)
  4. PHYSICISTS IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION (FSU)
Number 143 September 9, 1993
  1. SOFT GAMMA RAY REPEATERS (SGR's)
  2. THE FATE OF THE SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER
  3. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS (AJP)
  4. THE STANDARD MODEL (circa 1993)
Number 144 September 20, 1993
  1. COMPETING ATTRACTORS
  2. THE HIGH-ENERGY X-RAY BACKGROUND
  3. ORGANIC SUPERLATTICE STRUCTURE
  4. THE LASER FEEDBACK MICROSCOPE (LFM)
Number 145 September 28, 1993
  1. SUPERCONDUCTIVITY HAS BEEN OBSERVED ABOVE 150 K
  2. MICROLENSING EVENTS HINT AT THE EXISTENCE OF DARK MATTER
  3. NANOMAGNETS EXHIBIT BISTABILITY
  4. MICROSCOPIC STEAM ENGINES
Number 146 October 5, 1993
  1. BEAMS OF ULTRA-COLD, SPIN-POLARIZED HYDROGEN ATOMS
  2. THE CENTRAL TEMPERATURE OF THE SUN
  3. A B-MESON FACTORY WILL BE BUILT AT SLAC
  4. FERMILAB'S CRYOGENIC COOLING SYSTEM
Number 147 October 13, 1993
  1. THE PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE GOES TO JOSEPH TAYLOR AND RUSSELL HULSE
  2. AN ACTIVE GALAXY'S CENTER AND ITS NUCLEUS
  3. PROTON HALOES
Number 148 October 19, 1993
  1. A NANOSCOPIC STONEHENGE
  2. WHAT IS THE HIGGS BOSON AND WHY DO WE WANT TO FIND IT?
  3. POLYMER LED'S ARE NOW MORE EFFICIENT
Number 149 October 28, 1993
  1. THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (AIP)
  2. THE SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER
  3. COLD CESIUM ATOMS BOUNCE UP TO EIGHT TIMES
  4. THE EXISTENCE OF STABLE STRANGE MATTER
  5. CARBON AEROGEL
Number 150 November 5, 1993
  1. CHAINS OF CRATERS ON CALLISTO AND GANYMEDE
  2. HINGED NETWORK CRYSTALS
  3. ATOM-OPTICS TECHNIQUES FOR MICROCIRCUIT LITHOGRAPHY
  4. THE PHYSICS OF BUNGEE JUMPING
Number 151 November 15, 1993
  1. JOHN PEOPLES WILL OVERSEE THE DISMEMBERMENT OF THE SSC
  2. DISPOSSESSED AMERICAN PARTICLE PHYSICISTS
  3. A SELF-FOCUSING LASER
  4. SOLAR RADIATION VARIES
  5. MOLECULAR DYNAMICS (MD) SIMULATIONS
Number 152 November 19, 1993
  1. THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF COSMIC RAYS
  2. THE DIFFUSION-CONTROLLED AGGREGATION
  3. OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATION (OPO)
Number 153 November 29, 1993
  1. GRAVITATIONAL MICROLENSING OF QUASAR IMAGES
  2. INDIUM-BASED FULLERENES
  3. ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
Number 154 December 3, 1993
  1. THE MOST ACCURATE MEASUREMENT OF PARITY VIOLATION
  2. TABLE-TOP TERAWATT LASERS
  3. EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD
Number 155 December 13, 1993
  1. THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE REPAIR MISSION
  2. PRINCETON'S TFTR TOKAMAK HAS PRODUCED 5.6 MEGAWATTS OF POWER
  3. SOLAR WIND SPEEDS
  4. MANTLE PLUMES CONTAIN RECYCLED OCEAN CRUST AND SEDIMENT
  5. THE FIRST OBSERVED TRANSIT OF MERCURY
Number 156 December 17, 1993
  1. SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AT 250 K (-10 F)
  2. DATA FROM TWO GREENLAND ICE PROJECTS DIFFER
  3. SUPER-INTENSE LASER FIELDS MAKE ATOMS RESISTANT TO IONIZATION
Number 157 December 23, 1993
  1. ATOMIC-SCALE, ULTRAFAST MOVIES
  2. GEOELECTRIC SIGNALS: DO THEY PRECEDE EARTHQUAKES?
  3. NEUTRINO TOMOGRAPHY OF THE EARTH'S INTERIOR
  4. CORRECTIONS
Number 158 December 30, 1993
  1. THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER
  2. NICKEL-BASED SUPERCONDUCTORS
  3. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN CHAOS AND GENERAL RELATIVITY
  4. A NEW FISSION REACTOR CONCEPT