1998 Index Number 353 January 5, 1998 FRACTAL PATTERNS INSIDE CELLS CAN REVEAL BREAST CANCER THE TOP PHYSICS STORIES OF 1997 PHYSICS DEMOGRAPHICS Number 354 January 12, 1998 COSMIC INFRARED BACKGROUND DISCOVERED A 2.6 MILLION SOLAR MASS BLACK HOLE URANIUM PROSPECTING WITH NEUTRINOS Number 355 January 20, 1998 THE UNIVERSE WILL EXPAND FOREVER THE DURATION OF SONOLUMINESCENCE (SL) PULSES SINGLE-LAYER CARBON NANOTUBES CAN BE EITHER SEMICONDUCTORS OR METALS Number 356 January 27, 1998 LOCALIZATION OF LIGHT QUANTUM EVAPORATION ANOTHER VERSION OF QUANTUM TELEPORTATION Number 357 February 4, 1998 A QUANTUM TUNNELING TRANSISTOR THE SPALLATION NEUTRON SOURCE SUBSCRIPTION REMINDER Number 358 February 11, 1998 SUPERCONDUCTIVITY-DEPENDENT FRICTION INK-JET PRINTING OF LIGHT-EMITTING POLYMERS LIQUID CARBON Number 359 February 18, 1998 BIG LIGHT THROUGH LITTLE HOLES RECORD HIGH POWERS FROM QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS MOLECULAR INDIVIDUALISM Number 360 February 25, 1998 ANTHROPIC COSMOLOGY PROTON RADIOACTIVITY IN HIGHLY DEFORMED NUCLEI NANO-CDs WITH 400 GBIT/IN2 DATA STORAGE DENSITY Number 361 March 4, 1998 A REPULSIVE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE USING CHAOS TO ENCODE AND DECODE MESSAGES A NEW LIMIT ON PHOTON MASS Number 362 March 12, 1998 TUNABLE CHEMISTRY IN BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES COMPLEMENTARITY PRINCIPLE DEMONSTRATED FOR ELECTRONS WATER ON MOON, ASTEROID NEAR EARTH Number 363 March 23, 1998 NANO-ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (NEMS) NEW METHODS OF STUDYING TURBULENCE DNA WIRES Number 364 March 27, 1998 WEIRD BEHAVIOR IN QUANTUM DOTS THE FLATTEST SURFACE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM ENERGETIC COSMIC RAYS MAY BE IRON NUCLEI PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE SUBSCRIPTION REMINDER Number 365 April 2, 1998 MOVING FORWARD INTO THE PAST TWO FORMS OF LIQUID WATER MIGHT COEXIST Number 366 April 9, 1998 ANTI-HYDROGEN ATOMS AT FERMILAB THE SILICON-SILICON DIOXIDE INTERFACE IN SANDIA'S "Z" MACHINE Number 367 April 16, 1998 MICROFLUIDICS: MIXING NANOLITERS IN MICROSECONDS A SEARCH ENGINE THAT EMPLOYS QUANTUM WEIRDNESS MAPPING THE HELIOPAUSE FROM EARTH Number 368 April 23, 1998 THE STRONGEST GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS EVER MEASURED PLANETARY SYSTEMS IN THE MAKING PHYSICAL REVIEW FOCUS Number 369 April 29, 1998 A DENSE NUCLEAR ENVIRONMENT CAUSES PARTICLES TO LOSE WEIGHT IN MAGNETIC SOURCE IMAGING THE MOST DISTANT GAMMA RAY BURST ARTIFICIAL VACUUMS ON EARTH Number 370 May 6, 1998 LOOKING FOR ANTI-QUARKS INSIDE PROTONS PHYSICS TODAY MAGAZINE CELEBRATES ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY DO CATHEDRAL GLASSES FLOW? CORRECTION PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE Number 371 May 13, 1998 MAGNETIC ROTATION OF NUCLEI THE EARTH VIBRATES CONTINUOUSLY A CARBON NANOTUBE TRANSISTOR Number 372 May 20, 1998 PROTONS AND ANTIPROTONS HAVE THE SAME MASS RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES FOR ELEMENTARY PARTICLES HOW THREE HYDROGEN IONS SHARE THEIR ENERGY Number 373 May 27, 1998 CAN EPILEPTIC SEIZURES BE PREDICTED? QUANTUM DOT CELLULAR AUTOMATA A MOMENTUM MICROSCOPE FOR VIEWING SINGLE-MOLECULE COLLISIONS Number 374 June 3, 1998 THE FIRST SNAPSHOT OF AN EXTRASOLAR PLANET? A PULSAR WITH A MAGNETIC FIELD OF 8 x 1014 GAUSS TUMBLE AND FLUTTER: PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE Number 375 June 5, 1998 NEUTRINO OSCILLATION HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED NEW LIMITS ON THE MASS OF MAGNETIC MONOPOLES Number 376 June 11, 1998 THE BURGESS SHALE OF COLLOIDS WEIGHING NEUTRINOS WITH GALAXY SURVEYS THE FIRST PRACTICAL, COHERENT SOFT X RAY SOURCE CORRECTION Number 377 June 17, 1998 NANOSCALE ELECTROCHEMISTRY BEST ALPHA HEATING YET IN A TOKAMAK A SMART PIXEL Number 378 June 24, 1998 THE PHYSICS OF FOOTBALL SINGLE-SHOT FAR-INFRARED PICTURES TURNING SOLID METAL INTO A TRANSPARENT, HIGHLY REFRACTIVE FLUID Number 379 June 25, 1998 NEAREST EXTRA-SOLAR PLANET LIFE EXTINCTIONS BY COSMIC RAY JETS THE MOON WAS THE FIRST OBJECT OF PURE SCIENCE Number 380 July 1, 1998 ACOUSTIC SURGERY A NEW FORM OF SOLID CARBON EXEBYTES OF INFORMATION Number 381 July 10, 1998 NEW REASONS TO SEARCH FOR EXTRA DIMENSIONS HEAVY-FERMION SUPERCONDUCTIVITY Number 382 July 17, 1998 BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATION OF HYDROGEN ATOMS A SUN-EARTH CONNECTION EVENT THE INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS OLYMPIAD PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE Number 383 July 24, 1998 THE PERSISTENCE OF WEATHER DEGREE-GRANTING PHYSICS FACTORIES. The top US institutions for minting new physics PhDs over the past three years (1995-96-97) were MIT (with an average of 44 PhDs per year), Illinois (35), Texas (34), Maryland (34), and Berkeley and Chicago with 29 each. As for physics bachelor's, the top schools were Harvard (57 per year), MIT (55), Berkeley (47), UCSD and U Washington (38 each), UCLA and Rutgers (37), and Brigham Young (36). (Pat Mulvey, AIP Education and Employment Statistics Div., pmulvey@aip.org.) Number 384 July 28, 1998 MEASURING GRAVITY GRADIENTS WITH ATOM INTERFEROMETRY A WATER SOFTENER FOR RADIOACTIVE WASTE ULTRASMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING Number 385 August 3, 1998 GROUP DECISIONS CAN BE MATHEMATICALLY UNPREDICTABLE THE FIRST OBSERVATION OF LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATION OF INJECTED ELECTRONS NO END IN SIGHT FOR COSMIC RAY ENERGIES PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE Number 386 August 26, 1998 BLACK HOLES CANNOT SERVE AS PORTALS TO OTHER UNIVERSES TURBULENCE IN SOAP FILMS PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE Number 387 August 28, 1998 ELECTRIC NOISE CAN INCREASE HUMAN TACTILE SENSATION A TORQUE WRENCH FOR DNA CHEMISTRY MICROCHIPS Number 388 September 3, 1998 QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTION THE COLLISION BETWEEN BASEBALL AND BAT SILICYNE, A NEW FORM OF SILICON Number 389 September 4, 1998 CHAOS-BASED COMPUTING TRIPLE PHOTOIONIZATION OF LITHIUM BROWNIAN MOTION IS CHAOTIC Number 390 September 10, 1998 NANOTUBE NANOLITHOGRAPHY KAONS INSIDE SUPERNOVAS A PERIODIC TABLE FOR ARTIFICIAL ATOMS Number 391 September 15, 1998 ANOMALOUS ACCELERATION THE MOST ACCURATE MEASUREMENT YET OF THE PLANCK CONSTANT Number 392 September 23, 1998 DO COSMIC RAYS COME FROM QUASARS? THE 25 GREATEST ASTRONOMICAL FINDINGS Number 393 September 28, 1998 THE EXTRASOLAR PLANET PARADE MILLIKELVIN MOLECULES MILKY WAY IN THE LABORATORY A TRAVEL GUIDE TO EUROPEAN SCIENCE Number 394 October 1, 1998 A BLAST OF GAMMA LIGHT THE PHYSICS OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM DNA-MEMBRANE SELF-ASSEMBLIES Number 395 October 7, 1998 ECONOPHYSICS THE PHYSICS OF FLOCKING PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE SUBSCRIPTION PROCEDURE Number 396 October 14, 1998 THE 1998 PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE ELECTRON-POSITRON JETS FROM A QUASAR A PHOTONIC DOT MOLECULE Number 397 October 16, 1998 NOBELIUM-254 IS THE HEAVIEST ELEMENT TO BE STUDIED IN DETAIL THE 1998 NOBEL PRIZE FOR CHEMISTRY NULLED STARLIGHT Number 398 October 21, 1998 LOW-FIELD MRI SUPERLUMINAL TRAVEL REQUIRES NEGATIVE ENERGIES Number 399 October 26, 1998 NONLOCALITY GETS MORE REAL TUMOR GROWTH CAN BE FRACTAL Number 400 October 30, 1998 PROTONS PERSIST THE CONDUCTANCE OF A SINGLE MOLECULE STACKED ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES (SOLEDs) NANOCOMPUTERS IN A BOTTLE TO ADD OR DELETE Number 401 November 9, 1998 INFLUENCE OF COSMIC RAYS ON EARTH'S CLIMATE SUREFIRE QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT THE PETAWATT Number 402 November 13, 1998 IMMISCIBLE QUANTUM LIQUIDS THE ARROW OF TIME SONIC BANDGAPS Number 403 November 20, 1998 CLUSTERING AND COLLAPSE IN GRANULAR MATERIAL DOES CHAOS AFFECT THE COURSE OF AN ARMS RACE? Number 404 November 30, 1998 POSITRONIC WATER ANTI-MEISSNER EFFECT THE NUMBER OF NEW PHYSICS BACHELOR'S RECIPIENTS Number 405 December 7, 1998 INTRIGUING INDICATIONS OF CP VIOLATION IN B MESONS A "PERFECT MIRROR," THE MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR Number 406 December 11, 1998 JOSEPHSON EFFECT IN A BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE MRI OF SINGLE MAMMALIAN CELLS SPACE WEATHER EXERTS ITSELF IN SEVERAL WAYS Number 407 December 21, 1998 RELATIVISTIC NONLINEAR OPTICS GLUON FUSION A MULTI-WAVELENGTH SEMICONDUCTOR LASER Number 408 December 23, 1998 A TWO-DIMENSIONAL ATOM GAS THE NEOLITHIC TRANSITION IN EUROPE RELATIVISTIC SLEIGH RIDE