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1994 Index
Number 159 January 6, 1994
  1. NEW LAMB SHIFT MEASUREMENTS DISAGREE WITH QED
  2. SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY IN FRAGMENTING
  3. THE NUMBER OF FOREIGN STUDENTS
Number 160 January 14, 1994
  1. A REJUVENATED HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
  2. GALAXY M81 LACKS DARK MATTER
  3. GAMMA-RAY FLASHES IN EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE
  4. THE SOLAR CHROMOSPHERE IS COLDER
Number 161 January 24, 1994
  1. GAMMA RAY BURSTS MAY BE EXHIBITING TIME DILATION
  2. PICOKELVIN TEMPERATURES
  3. THE CLEMENTINE SPACECRAFT
Number 162 January 31, 1994
  1. THE FIRST DIRECT OBSERVATION OF STRUCTURE IN THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND (CMB)
  2. ATOM-BOMB SIZED METEOROID EXPLOSIONS
  3. INTERMETALLIC SUPERCONDUCTORS
Number 163 February 4, 1994
  1. A MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING SYSTEM
  2. A TRANSITION BETWEEN SPIRAL AND BULLS-EYE STATES
  3. THE PHYSICS JOB MARKET IS TIGHT FOR NEW PH'Ds
  4. COBE RETIRES
Number 164 February 10, 1994
  1. THE DISCOVERY OF ELEMENT 106 HAS BEEN CONFIRMED
  2. OPTICAL LATTICES
  3. ATOMIC DREIDLS
Number 165 February 17, 1994
  1. LEPTOQUARKS HAVE NOT BEEN FOUND
  2. A SCANNING MAGNETIC FLUX MICROSCOPE
  3. MYSTERIOUS ATMOSPHERIC RADIO BURSTS
  4. THE GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS)
Number 166 February 25, 1994
  1. METASTABLE ANTIPROTONIC HELIUM ATOMS
  2. ARE ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES BORN IN THE COLLISIONS OF SPIRAL GALAXIES?
  3. PARTICLE PHYSICS WITHOUT THE SSC
  4. OBSERVATIONS OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AT 250 K
Number 167 March 3, 1994
  1. CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS VS. SOLAR FLARES
  2. SEARCHING FOR ANTIPROTON DECAY
  3. DETERMINING THE NATURE OF CHEMICAL BONDS AT NEAR-ATOMIC RESOLUTION
Number 168 March 10, 1994
  1. HIGH ENERGY SULPHUR-SULPHUR COLLISIONS
  2. AEROCRYSTAL NETWORKS
  3. SONOLUMINESCENCE CAN BE CHAOTIC
Number 169 March 17, 1994
  1. LIMITS ON THE FLUX OF MAGNETIC MONOPOLES
  2. PHONONIC CRYSTALS
  3. ASTEROID IDA SEEMS TO HAVE A MOON
  4. GERMANIUM-SILICON TRANSISTORS
  5. A HYPERVELOCITY LAUNCHER
Number 170 March 28, 1994
  1. CONTROLLING CHAOS
  2. BUILDING WHOLE INSTRUMENTS ON A CHIP
  3. HIGH-SPEED STM
  4. SOFT GAMMA RAY REPEATERS (SGR's)
Number 171 April 1, 1994
  1. FASTER TECHNIQUES FOR SEQUENCING DNA
  2. PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM
  3. WOMEN IN PHYSICS
  4. NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS
Number 172 April 7, 1994
  1. THE COLD DARK MATTER (cdm)
  2. POROUS SILICON
  3. THE SURVEY OF GALAXY REDSHIFTS
  4. FEMTOSECOND LASERS
Number 173 April 12, 1994
  1. COSMIC STRINGS
  2. IS HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY d-WAVE
  3. MOLECULAR LEVEL INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
Number 174 April 15, 1994
  1. LASER ACTION IN A DISORDERED MATERIAL
  2. A NEW NEAREST GALACTIC NEIGHBOR
  3. ULTRAHIGH ACCELERATION OF ELECTRONS
  4. WALL STREET IS BULLISH ON PHYSICS
Number 175 April 25, 1994
  1. EXPLORING MATTER ON A SCALE OF 10**-16 CM
  2. THE COSMIC X-RAY BACKGROUND (CXB)
  3. THE INVENTORY OF ELEMENTS IN SUPERNOVA REMNANTS
Number 176 April 26, 1994
  1. FERMILAB SEES SOME EVIDENCE FOR THE TOP QUARK
Number 177 May 3, 1994
  1. A QUANTUM WIRE MICROCAVITY LASER
  2. THE DENSITY OF EXTRAGALACTIC DEUTERIUM
  3. THE DETECTION OF PLANETS AROUND A PULSAR
  4. CCD TROUBLES FOR HUBBLE CAMERAS
Number 178 May 10, 1994
  1. THE LATTICE SPACING IN SILICON (220)
  2. HALTING AND REVERSING THE DESTRUCTION OF OZONE
  3. NEUTRAL ATOMS HAVE BEEN TRAPPED WITH MICROWAVES
Number 179 May 17, 1994
  1. THE RELAXATION OF A SINGLE DNA MOLECULE
  2. AN ION TEMPERATURE OF 429 MILLION K (37 keV)
  3. A THOUSANDFOLD INCREASE IN THE MAGNETORESISTANCE (MR)
  4. THE 1995 RESEARCH BUDGET REQUEST
Number 180 May 27, 1994
  1. THE EXISTENCE OF BLACK HOLES
  2. WHEN THE FRAGMENTS OF COMET SHOEMAKER-LEVY
  3. THE CLEMENTINE SPACECRAFT
Number 181 June 3, 1994
  1. ASYMMETRIC SUPERNOVA EXPLOSIONS
  2. IN A QUANTUM CASCADE (QC) LASER
  3. TWO LARGE RINGS LOOMING MYSTERIOUSLY NEAR
  4. ACOUSTIC COLOR
Number 182 June 8, 1994
  1. RADIOACTIVE ATOMS HAVE BEEN TRAPPED
  2. ONLY 21% OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ENROLL IN PHYSICS
  3. RUSSIA'S 3-TeV PROTON ACCELERATOR
Number 183 June 14, 1994
  1. PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE IS NOW USING THE AIP LISTSERVER
Number 184 June 21, 1994
  1. THE MOST PRECISE MEASUREMENT YET OF THE WEINBERG ANGLE
  2. INTERFEROMETRY OF IODINE MOLECULES
  3. MYOGLOBIN MYSTERIES MADE MANIFEST
  4. TWO PHYSICS JOURNALS WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLINE
Number 185 June 28, 1994
  1. BARE URANIUM IONS HAVE BEEN TRAPPED
  2. THE POSSIBILITY OF PLANETS ORBITING THE STAR BETA PICTORIS
  3. MAGNETIC RESONANCE FORCE MICROSCOPY
  4. A 75-NANOMETER-WIDE ELECTRON BEAM
Number 186 July 5, 1994
  1. NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPES
  2. THE EVIDENCE FOR TOP QUARK PRODUCTION
  3. INTEGRATED CIRCUITS ARE MOSTLY TWO-DIMENSIONAL
  4. REMINDER ON SUBSCRIBING TO PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE
Number 187 July 11, 1994
  1. A CIRCUMSTELLAR DUST RING
  2. THE INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM (IGM) MAY HAVE BEEN DETECTED
  3. THREEFOLD INCREASED DETAIL IN THE STRUCTURE OF A BIOMOLECULE
  4. PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE
Number 189 August 9, 1994
  1. A GEOMAGNETIC LIMIT ON PHOTON MASS
  2. THAT METAL ATOMS CAN SIT INSIDE BUCKYBALLS
  3. LIGHT EMISSION FROM SINGLE MOLECULES
  4. THE P53 MOLECULE
Number 190 August 16, 1994
  1. DIRECT IMAGES OF THE SHOEMAKER-LEVY IMPACT
  2. PHOTON-ELECTRON AND PHOTON-PHOTON COLLIDERS
  3. TIME REVERSED SOUND
  4. BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION
Number 191 August 23, 1994
  1. ULYSSES NEARS THE ANTIPODES
  2. PLASMA CRYSTALS
  3. A DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHIC STORAGE SYSTEM
  4. "THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EDWARD LEPTON,"
Number 192 August 30, 1994
  1. A SOURCE OF COHERENT X RAYS
  2. COULD QUANTUM MECHANICS PLAY A ROLE
  3. THE EXPERIMENTAL ULTRAVIOLET INDEX
Number 193 September 6, 1994
  1. IMPROVED MASS VALUES FOR NINE ELEMENTS AND FOR THE NEUTRON
  2. A QUASAR-LIKE OBJECT
  3. THE PEER REVIEW PROCESS
  4. CORRECTION
  5. REMINDER
Number 194 September 13, 1994
  1. CRITICAL EXPONENTS IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS
  2. THE SOLAR SYSTEM SITS IN AN INTERSTELLAR CLOUD
  3. ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
  4. THE TEMPERATURE OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND (CMB)
Number 195 September 20, 1994
  1. NEUTRON STAR MASSES
  2. A MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPE (MFM)
  3. TOYS WASHED OVERBOARD
  4. PROTONS MAY NOT BE SPHERICAL
Number 196 September 28, 1994
  1. AN ALL-POLYMER TRANSISTOR
  2. A QUASAR IN A NEARBY RADIO GALAXY
  3. FRACTAL DRUMS
  4. PORTABLE ANTIPROTONS
Number 197 October 5, 1994
  1. QUARK GLUON PLASMA (QGP)
  2. THE SHARPEST PICTURES YET OF THE LIVING HUMAN RETINA
  3. THE MOST ENERGETIC GAMMA BURST
  4. CRYSTALS THAT SHRINK ISOTROPICALLY WHEN HEATED
Number 198 October 12, 1994
  1. THE 1994 PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE
  2. PERHAPS THE MOST CHEMICALLY ACTIVE FORM OF MATTER IN NATURE
  3. ELEMENTS HEAVIER THAN ZINC
Number 199 October 19, 1994
  1. THE MOST DISTANT MOLECULAR GAS
  2. COSMIC-RAY NEUTRINOS
  3. INTERNET TRAFFIC FOR THE 1984-1994 DECADE
  4. THE EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY (ESRF)
Number 200 October 26, 1994
  1. ACCURATELY MEASURING THE HUBBLE CONSTANT (H)
  2. THE THEORY OF SUPERSTRINGS
Number 201 November 3, 1994
  1. VERY ENERGETIC COSMIC RAYS
  2. MAGNETIC VORTEX LINES ARE INDEED LINES
  3. THE WORLD'S LARGEST SCALE MODEL OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Number 202 November 9, 1994
  1. SO-CALLED "JUNK" DNA
  2. A NEARBY LARGE SPIRAL GALAXY
  3. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SSC STAFF?
Number 203 November 17, 1994
  1. LIGHT EMISSION IS MAPPED WITH ATOMIC RESOLUTION
  2. ATOMIC LONG JUMP
  3. INERTIAL-CONFINEMENT FUSION RESEARCH
  4. TITAN MAY HAVE OCEANS
Number 204 November 23, 1994
  1. ELEMENT 110 HAS BEEN CREATED
  2. DARK MATTER DOES NOT CONSIST OF RED DWARF STARS
  3. A SINGLE-ATOM LASER
  4. THE MOST DISTANT GALAXY
Number 205 December 1, 1994
  1. COMPOSITE FERMIONS ARE REAL
  2. THE HEARD ISLAND FEASIBILITY TEST (HIFT)
  3. MUON-MUON COLLIDERS
Number 206 December 8, 1994
  1. PLANETS AROUND BETA PICTORIS?
  2. AN ELECTRONIC MICRO-REFRIGERATOR
  3. EINSTEIN'S GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
Number 207 December 15, 1994
  1. COPPERLESS PEROVSKITE SUPERCONDUCTORS
  2. A GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE
  3. THE HIGHEST ENERGY ACCELERATOR BEAM
  4. THE ABANDONED SSC SITE
  5. REMINDER ABOUT SUBSCRIBING TO PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE
Number 208 December 22, 1994
  1. THE CERN COUNCIL HAS APPROVED THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER (LHC)
  2. ELEMENT 111 HAS BEEN DISCOVERED
  3. SOME OF THE EQUATIONS RELATED TO SUPERSYMMETRY THEORY
  4. NON-NEUTRAL PLASMAS