1996 Index Number 253 January 4, 1996 ANTIHYDROGEN ATOMS HAVE BEEN CREATED A FEYNMAN THOUGHT EXPERIMENT HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED IN AN ATOM INTERFEROMETER A GIGANTIC CELESTIAL MASER Number 254 January 11, 1996 DID NEUTRINOS KILL THE DINOSAURS? JUPITER PROBE'S EARLY RESULTS FRACTAL SCUM SWISS FACTORY TO PRODUCE Ws INSTEAD OF Zs Number 255 January 19, 1996 WATERWORLD: NEW EXTRASOLAR PLANETS HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED THE HUBBLE DEEP FIELD (HDF) THE FIRST DIRECT IMAGE OF THE SURFACE OF A STAR Number 256 January 26, 1996 MACHOS MAY MAKE UP A CONSIDERABLE FRACTION OF DARK MATTER SPACEBORNE PARTICLE PHYSICS THE FIRMEST EVIDENCE YET FOR D-WAVE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY 13,285 PHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE U.S. IN 1994 Number 257 February 6, 1996 SELF-ASSEMBLED QUANTUM DOTS OPTICAL BULLET HOLES Number 258 February 13, 1996 DO QUARKS HAVE SUBSTRUCTURE? HENRI BECQUEREL ANNOUNCED THE DISCOVERY OF RADIOACTIVITY Number 259 February 21, 1996 NEW STUDIES CONFIRM THAT CFCs CAUSE OZONE DEPLETION DARK MATTER, LIKE LUMINOUS MATTER, IS HIERARCHICAL ONE OF THE GREAT MYSTERIES OF WATER Number 260 February 27, 1996 FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO: PRIMEVAL GALAXIES ELEMENT 112 HAS BEEN DISCOVERED AT THE GSI LAB TABLETOP LASER ACCELERATORS ARE ON THE WAY Number 261 March 6, 1996 SQUEEZED PHONONS X-RAY BURSTER/PULSAR BEAM CHANNELING AT 900 GEV PHDs ARE UP BUT 1ST-YEAR STUDENTS ARE DOWN Number 262 March 14, 1996 THE SURFACE OF PLUTO HAS BEEN IMAGED THE FIRST X-RAY HOLOGRAM WITH ATOMIC RESOLUTION A NEW FORM OF ICE IN THE LATE HEAVY BOMBARDMENT (LHB) EPOCH Number 263 March 22, 1996 METALLIC HYDROGEN HAS BEEN ACHIEVED SINGLE-MOLECULE BIOSENSOR Number 264 April 1, 1996 GRANULAR MATERIALS HOW MANY GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS TAKE PHYSICS? Number 265 April 5, 1996 HAS A SUPERSYMMETRIC PARTICLE BEEN PRODUCED? INTERSTELLAR DUST PARTICLES ENTERING EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE Number 266 April 12, 1996 TAILOR-MADE QUANTUM STATES OF MOTION A NEW MATERIAL SHRINKS WHEN HEATED THE FIRST X RAYS EVER SEEN COMING FROM A COMET Number 267 April 23, 1996 A NEW THEORY OF SONOLUMINESCENCE COLLECTIVE SYNCHRONIZATION CAN ACT LIKE A PHASE TRANSITION Number 268 May 1, 1996 CHAOTIC QUANTUM PINBALL SATURN'S RINGS ARE SEEN EDGE-ON THE FIRST BINARY-STAR SYSTEMS BEAMING X RAYS AT SUB-MILLISECOND Number 269 May 6, 1996 THE LIQUID SCINTILLATOR NEUTRINO DETECTOR (LSND) THE WORLD'S RAREST ELEMENT HOLOGRAM TEMPLATE FOR ATOMS Number 270 May 9, 1996 TWO EFFORTS TO MEASURE THE HUBBLE CONSTANT THE OLDEST STARS IN THE MILKY WAY ARE 15 BILLION YEARS OLD RECORD HIGH LASER INTENSITY Number 271 May 16, 1996 SHARPER, CHEAPER PET SCANS THE ACOUSTIC ANALOG OF A LASER BINARY ASTEROIDS CORRECTION Number 272 May 23, 1996 ADVANCES IN BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES ATOM PHOTONICS THE GALILEO PROBE Number 273 May 31, 1996 SCHRODINGER'S CAT-ION SUPERCONDUCTING TUNNEL JUNCTIONS (STJ) PHYSICS BACHELOR'S DEGREES Number 274 June 7, 1996 A NEW MEASUREMENT OF COSMIC DEUTERIUM THE PHYSICS OF CAR BATTERIES WORLD'S FASTEST COMPUTER Number 275 June 14, 1996 THE FIRST QUANTUM COMMUNICATION USES "TRITS" INSTEAD OF BITS THE CLOSEST EXTRA-SOLAR PLANET A MOVIE OF THE CRAB NEBULA Number 276 June 21, 1996 POLARIZED LIGHT AS A BLACK HOLE SIGNATURE IO MAY GENERATE A MAGNETIC FIELD OF ITS OWN DIGITAL VERSATILE DISCS (DVDs) Number 277 July 1, 1996 AN EXCITON ANALOG OF A LASER 100-MILLION K TEMPERATURES IN THE SUN'S CORONA A LARGE LAKE BENEATH THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET Number 278 July 8, 1996 EXTREMELY HIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAYS MINIMAL ENERGY REQUIREMENTS IN COMMUNICATIONS THE ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE OF A SINGLE XENON ATOM Number 279 July 15, 1996 GENERATING "SOUND WAVES" IN BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF INDIVIDUAL CARBON NANOTUBES GANYMEDE IS COVERED WITH A DIRTY CRUST OF WATER ICE Number 280 July 22, 1996 EARTH'S CORE SPINS INDEPENDENTLY ICE CHANGES FROM A MOLECULAR SOLID TO AN IONIC SOLID LASER-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY FOR ISOTOPE DISCRIMINATION Number 281 July 29, 1996 SOLAR NEUTRINO FLUX IS NOT CORRELATED WITH SUNSPOT ACTIVITY THE PHYSICS OLYMPIAD IN OSLO TUNNEL JUNCTION MAGNETORESISTANCE Number 282 August 2, 1996 LASER LIGHT CAN COOL PARTICLE BEAMS IN 3 DIMENSIONS DAYS WERE ONLY 18 HOURS LONG MICROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (MEMS) PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE Number 283 August 27, 1996 POSSIBLE EVIDENCE FOR LIFE ON MARS A TRANS-SOLAR SPACE CRAFT Number 284 September 3, 1996 MOVING NATIVE ATOMS ON A SURFACE IS NOW POSSIBLE PHASE IMAGING WITH HIGH-ENERGY X-RAYS Number 285 September 9, 1996 A 3-DIMENSIONAL, FULL-COLOR SOLID-STATE DISPLAY BRAIDS PLAITED BY MAGNETIC HOLES THE PROSPECT OF ORGANIC ELECTRONIC DEVICES Number 286 September 13, 1996 PARTICLE-LIKE LOCALIZED EXCITATIONS IN A BED OF SAND THE STANDARD MODEL OF PARTICLE PHYSICS Number 287 September 20, 1996 THE QUEST FOR ANTIHYDROGEN DO MANY PHYSICS POSTDOCS CONSIDER THEMSELVES "UNDEREMPLOYED"? Number 288 September 26, 1996 SONOLUMINESCENCE FLASHES CAN HAVE A DIPOLE SHAPE PROBING ARTIFICIAL PLASMAS 6 TIMES DENSER THAN AT THE CENTER OF THE SUN Number 289 October 3, 1996 TeV-ENERGY GAMMA BURSTS QUARK-GLUON PLASMA NANOROD-SUPERCONDUCTOR COMPOSITES SOLAR NEUTRINO FLUXES VARY WITH A PERIOD OF 21.3 DAYS Number 290 October 9, 1996 THE 1996 PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE RECOGNIZES THE DISCOVERY OF SUPERFLUIDITY IN HELIUM-3 THE THEORY OF BIG BANG NUCLEOSYNTHESIS (BBN) Number 291 October 16, 1996 THE 1996 CHEMISTRY NOBEL PRIZE THE FIRST DIRECT MEASUREMENTS OF THE PROPER MOTION OF STARS PHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE U.S. PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE Number 292 October 23, 1996 CAN PULSATING STARS EMIT GRAVITATIONAL WAVES WAVEPACKET TECHNOLOGY HELIUM DROPLETS AS A NANOSCALE CRYOSTAT Number 293 October 30, 1996 SIGNAL TRANSMISSION THROUGH A MAMMALIAN NERVE-CELL NETWORK A QUANTUM COMPUTER COULD TOLERATE ERRORS A PHOTOELECTROCHROMIC (PEC) Number 294 November 6, 1996 NANOSCALE ABACUS THE SHORTEST X-RAY PULSES PHOTONIC CRYSTALS NOW OPERATE IN THE NEAR INFRARED Number 295 November 13, 1996 CAN HELIUM-3 HELP THE SOLAR NEUTRINO PROBLEM? A GRAVITOMAGNETIC FIELD A SEARCHABLE VERSION OF PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE Number 296 November 20, 1996 DO NEUTRINOS PUSH PULSARS AROUND? LASER MANIPULATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL CELL MEMBRANES WHAT'S HAPPENING ON OTHER WORLDS? Number 297 November 27, 1996 FERMILAB HAS MADE ANTIHYDROGEN ATOMS A REFRACTIVE LENS FOR X RAYS QUANTUM DECOHERENCE MAGNETIC LEVITATION OF LIQUID HELIUM-4 A NANOTUBE HAS BEEN USED AS A MICROSCOPE PROBE Number 298 December 4, 1996 THE HIGGS BOSON DOES EXIST AS A PHYSICAL PARTICLE SOME QUASARS SEEM TO BE IGNITED IN GALAXY COLLISIONS AN ALL-SILICON OPTOELECTRONIC CIRCUIT Number 299 December 13, 1996 QUARKS ARE POINTLIKE AT THE 10**-19 METER LEVEL SONOLUMINESCENCE RESEARCH VIBRATES WITH ACTIVITY HELIUM-3 CAN REMAIN SUPERFLUID IN AEROGEL Number 300 December 20, 1996 CAN HYDROGEN BE A SUPERCONDUCTOR? MOUNTAINS ON THE SUN THE CASIMIR FORCE Number 301 December 31, 1996 OXYGEN DATING THE MILKY WAY TURBULENCE MAY BE MORE OF A PROBLEM FOR ITER TINY SILICON BEAMS VIBRATE AT A FREQUENCY OF 70 MHZ SPACE WEATHER