1997 Index Number 302 January 8, 1997 SYMPATHETIC COOLING A NEW ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE USES ONE- TENTH THE VOLTAGE DIGITAL MIRRORS Number 303 January 16, 1997 GETTING A PEEK AT BARE ELECTRONS A BLACK HOLE'S EVENT HORIZON HAS BEEN DETECTED Number 304 January 23, 1997 IS THE UNIVERSE CRYSTALLINE? OUR LOCAL CLUSTER OF GALAXIES IS STILL FORMING METAL INCLUSIONS COME IN SPECIAL SIZES Number 305 January 27, 1997 A RUDIMENTARY ATOM LASER Number 306 February 4, 1997 ATOM WAVES CAN BE USED TO DETECT ROTATIONAL EFFECTS PHOTONS AND LEPTONS SHALL INHERIT THE UNIVERSE REMINDER ON SUBSCRIBING TO PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE Number 307 February 12, 1997 LASER COOLING OF BULK MATTER SONOLUMINESCENCE BUBBLES COLLAPSE AT MORE THAN FOUR TIMES THE SPEED OF SOUND POLYMER QUANTUM WIRES Number 308 February 20, 1997 SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS) THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE UPGRADE A ROOM-TEMPERATURE SINGLE-ELECTRON MEMORY NAKED SINGULARITIES COULD EXIST Number 309 February 27, 1997 LEPTOQUARKS AT DESY? THE HIPPARCOS STAR CATALOG IRON AGE OF SUPERCONDUCTORS Number 310 March 6, 1997 1ST-GRADE MATH---PRIMITIVE QUANTUM COMPUTERS DECELERATION CAN BE AS IMPORTANT AS ACCELERATION THE NAMES OF ELEMENTS 104-109 COMET HALE-BOPP Number 311 March 13, 1997 EXPLOSIONS OF ATOM CLUSTERS YIELD HIGH ENERGIES ARE STANDARD SOLAR MODELS RELIABLE? DNA CHIPS Number 312 March 21, 1997 IMPORTANT PROCESSES IN SINGLE DNA MOLECULES NANOTUBES Number 313 March 24, 1997 SINGLE MAGNETIC ATOMS DISRUPT SUPERCONDUCTIVITY Number 314 March 28, 1997 STARDUST WITH RED GIANT FINGERPRINTS A ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL UNIVERSAL SUBSTRATE THE ANAPOLE MOMENT OF A NUCLEUS IS DETECTED Number 315 April 3, 1997 THE WORLD'S SMALLEST FOCUSED BEAM OF LIGHT FRACTAL MAGNETORESISTANCE A GALAXY HAS BEEN OPTICALLY SIGHTED Number 316 April 10, 1997 ICEBERGS AND OCEANS ON EUROPA SQUEEZED PHONONS HAVE BEEN PRODUCED PROTON TRANSISTOR MEMORY Number 317 April 17, 1997 IS THE UNIVERSE BIREFRINGENT? SPRINGTIME FOR COMET HALE-BOPP Number 318 April 23, 1997 AN EXCESS OF TeV-ENERGY GAMMA RAYS A SUPERFLUID ANALOGUE OF A JOSEPHSON JUNCTION FIRST RESULTS FROM JEFFERSON LAB Number 319 April 29, 1997 A NEW CELESTIAL SOURCE OF POSITRONS SOUND WAVES AND SUPERNOVAS IN BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES (BECs) ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF ELECTRONS Number 320 May 6, 1997 SINGLE-PHONON CALORIMETRY AN EXCITED ATOMIC STATE WITH A 10-YEAR LIFETIME A GIANT PIEZOELECTRIC EFFECT Number 321 May 14, 1997 A PHOTON CONVEYOR BELT THE QUANTUM WAVEFUNCTION OF A MATTER WAVE PHYSICISTS ARE 46 YEARS OLD AND MAKE $65,000 A YEAR Number 322 May 20, 1997 IN QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS ZERO-DIMENSIONAL METALS GAMMA RAY BURSTERS HAVE REVEALED THEMSELVES Number 323 May 28, 1997 AN AMORPHOUS SOLID BEHAVING LIKE A CRYSTAL THE EARLY FAINT SUN PARADOX REMINDER ON SUBSCRIBING TO PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE Number 324 June 4, 1997 A PREVIOUSLY UNDETECTED STREAM OF COMETS MORE QUALMS ABOUT EXTRASOLAR PLANET DISCOVERIES CELESTIAL HEAVYWEIGHTS THE MOST EXTENSIVE USE OF PERMANENT MAGNETS SUBSCRIPTION REQUESTS Number 325 June 11, 1997 PROTON PAIRS EJECTED FROM NUCLEI NUCLEAR WASTE FOREVER TRIGGERED STAR FORMATION VENUS' TAIL REACHES ALL THE WAY TO EARTH Number 326 June 18, 1997 UNUSUAL PROPERTIES OF CUBANE THE EARTH HAS A COMPANION IN ADDITION TO THE MOON GAMMA RAYS FROM A FREE ELECTRON LASER Number 327 June 25, 1997 A SONOLUMINESCING AIR BUBBLE MAY CONSIST CHIEFLY OF ARGON NON-EXPONENTIAL DECAY A SECOND ASTEROID BELT SILICON CARBIDE THE LIGHTEST STRONGLY INTERACTING PARTICLE, THE PION Number 328 July 2, 1997 THE MARS PATHFINDER STORING AN OPTIMUM AMOUNT OF INFORMATION IN A PHOTON HOLLOW NANOPARTICLE LUBRICANTS ONE MEASURE OF A NATION'S SCIENTIFIC STRENGTH Number 329 July 9, 1997 VERY LARGE BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY (VLBI) M THEORY HEAVY-ELEMENT CHEMISTRY Number 330 July 17, 1997 AMORPHOUS SOLID WATER (ASW) A PRESSURE STANDARD FROM QUANTUM-MECHANICAL SOUNDS THE STEREODYNAMICS OF MOLECULES Number 331 July 24, 1997 CHAOS CONTROL OF EL NINO ASTEROID MATHILDE CANCER-FIGHTING RADIOACTIVITY THE CHAOTIC MOTION OF DISKS Number 332 August 1, 1997 DID THE EARTH'S UPPER MANTLE SLIP BY 90 DEGREES THE WORLD'S FASTEST SEMICONDUCTOR SMART MATTER PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE Number 333 August 26, 1997 TRAPPING A SINGLE NANOPARTICLE BETWEEN TWO ELECTRODES QUARK STARS AT THIS YEAR'S PHYSICS OLYMPIAD Number 334 August 29, 1997 EXOTIC MESON AT BROOKHAVEN? FROST HEAVING FURTHER DISCUSSION OF COSMIC BIREFRINGENCE Number 335 September 5, 1997 FRACTIONALLY CHARGED CARRIERS VIEWING NANOSCOPIC ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS IN REAL TIME Number 336 September 11, 1997 WHAT IS THE MASS OF THE TOP QUARK? WHITE BLOOD CELLS SORT THEMSELVES BY TYPE Number 337 September 18, 1997 THE SMALLEST NONZERO BRANCHING RATIO EVER MEASURED REAL PHOTONS CREATE MATTER DNA-GOLD NANOPARTICLES Number 338 September 25, 1997 IN A GRAVITO-OPTICAL SURFACE TRAP (GOST) A LIQUID MAGNETIC FROTH MARS HAS A MAGNETIC FIELD Number 339 October 1, 1997 A NEW THEORY OF NMR FOR EXTENDED OBJECTS PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION WITH PROBE MICROSCOPY FISSION HELPS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY Number 340 October 8, 1997 TURNING ONIONS INTO DIAMONDS MOLECULAR HYDROGEN SHOULD BECOME SUPERFLUID A POLYMER THAT CAN TRANSFER ENERGY BETWEEN DIFFERENT LIGHT BEAMS Number 341 October 15, 1997 THE 1997 NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS THE FIRST SOLID MATERIAL THAT CAN REVERSIBLY SWITCH BETWEEN METAL AND INSULATOR Number 342 October 22, 1997 ONE OF THE MOST CONVECTIVE FLUIDS EVER OBSERVED IN THE LABORATORY HIGH-PRECISION COSMOLOGY SEVEN YEARS OF PHYSICS Number 343 October 24, 1997 TAKING THE TEMPERATURE OF DARK-STATE ATOMS THE CASSINI/HUYGENS SPACECRAFT Number 344 October 31, 1997 THE PHYSICS OF TRAFFIC JAMS INDUCED TRANSPARENCY IN A SOLID OBJECT PRODUCING ELEMENT 114 THE MOON FORMED IN ABOUT A YEAR Number 345 November 7, 1997 GRAVITATIONAL FRAME-DRAGGING IS OBSERVED BOILING TOPOLOGY THE PHYSICS OF COFFEE STAINS Number 346 November 13, 1997 NO CORRELATION EXISTS BETWEEN SOLAR NEUTRINOS AND SUNSPOTS RECORD HIGH LEVELS OF FUSION POWER AND ENERGY CHARGE CLOUDS IN A BOTTLE CHANNELING OF PARTICLE BEAMS USING NANOTUBES Number 347 November 19, 1997 HIGGS FACTORIES GENERAL RELATIVITY PATERNITY SUIT SETTLED HOW DOES THE SUN'S CORONA SPARE TIME Number 348 November 26, 1997 QUANTUM BOXES FOR COOPER PAIRS CAN ELECTRONS BEHAVE LIKE PLANETS? PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL FILTERS Number 349 December 3, 1997 MOST INTENSE MANMADE SOUND A PHOTONIC HALL EFFECT AND PHOTONIC MAGNETORESISTANCE SULPHUR SUPERCONDUCTIVITY Number 350 December 10, 1997 QUANTUM TELEPORTATION DO EARTHQUAKES HAVE ELECTRICAL PRECURSORS? Number 351 December 16, 1997 ELECTRON HOLOGRAPHY THE MOST PRECISE FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT TRANSISTORS WERE INVENTED 50 YEARS AGO Number 352 December 22, 1997 ATTACHING A SINGLE DNA MOLECULE TO A SILICON SURFACE THE PHYSICS OF POSTURE THE SPRING CONSTANT OF A SINGLE POLYMER CHAIN