1999 Index Number 409 January 7, 1999 WHAT MAKES OBJECTS SO STICKY? THE TOP PHYSICS STORIES FOR 1998 FURLONGS PER FORTNIGHT Number 410 January 13, 1999 IS THE FINE STRUCTURE CONSTANT CHANGING? HYDROGEN BONDS IN WATER HAVE COVALENT PROPERTIES Number 411 January 19, 1999 QUANTUM GAMES X RAYS IN, GAMMA RAYS OUT Number 412 January 27, 1999 ELEMENT 114 QUANTUM HOLOGRAPHY THE ADVANCED COMPOSITION EXPLORER Number 413 February 4, 1999 THE FIRST 3D PHOTONIC CRYSTAL MAGNETOELECTRONICS, SPIN ELECTRONICS, AND SPINTRONICS THE ROLE OF PHYSICS IN BIOLOGY Number 414 February 12, 1999 THE FIRST ENTANGLEMENT OF THREE PHOTONS A NEW ONLINE EXHIBIT DEVOTED TO WERNER HEISENBERG Number 415 February 18, 1999 LIGHT HAS BEEN SLOWED TO A SPEED OF 17 METERS/SECOND TUNABLE X-RAY WAVEGUIDE WITH AN AIR GAP A TWO DIMENSIONAL BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATE Number 416 February 26, 1999 WIRE-GUIDED ATOMS HOLOGRAMS OF TRANSISTOR INTERIORS A SINGLE-PHOTON TURNSTILE Number 417 March 8, 1999 WEIGHING VIRUSES PARITY NONCONSERVATION (PNC) IN ATOMS THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY CENTENNIAL Number 418 March 15, 1999 CHAOTIC GRANULAR MIXING PINPOINT POLYMERIZATION WHERE DOES FRICTIONAL HEAT GO? Number 419 March 19, 1999 NANOMETER-SCALE IMAGES OF SOUND WAVES SPACE-TIME FUZZINESS THE ANTARCTIC MUON AND NEUTRINO DETECTOR ARRAY (AMANDA) Number 420 March 31, 1999 DIRECT CP VIOLATION Number 421 March 31, 1999 CREATING ANTIMATTER WITH LASER LIGHT TABLETOP THERMONUCLEAR FUSION MOLECULAR ASTROPHYSICS Number 422 April 7, 1999 A CONTINUOUS ATOM LASER BEAM NONLINEAR ATOM OPTICS Number 423 April 14, 1999 THE SCIENCE OF GAMMA RAY BURSTERS THE MIGRATION OF PLUTONIUM PHYSICS DEPARTMENT RANKINGS POWDER LASER Number 424 April 21, 1999 DOES GOD EXIST? AN EXTENDED EXTRASOLAR PLANETARY SYSTEM Number 425 April 28, 1999 THE COSMIC NEUTRINO BACKGROUND PROGRESS TOWARDS A DICK TRACY WATCH APS CENTENNIAL PHOTOGRAPHS Number 426 May 3, 1999 MARS MAGNETISM HIGH-PRECISION STUDIES OF ANTIPROTONS PATTERNED NANOTUBE ARRAYS WRITING THE WORD "OPTICS" ON A SINGLE ATOM Number 427 May 10, 1999 WATCHING PACEMAKERS FORM IN A PETRI DISH CONTROLLING STOCHASTIC RESONANCE FERMI QUESTIONS Number 428 May 14, 1999 PI AND RANDOM NUMBERS ATOMIC STEERING COMMITTEE KING EDWARD III Number 429 May 20, 1999 THE BIGGEST LAVA OUTPOURING RYDBERG SCULPTING SUPERCONDUCTIVITY GOES PLATINUM. Number 430 May 26, 1999 INSTANT HOLOGRAPHY HELIUM ATOMS SHOOT DOWN HOLLOW FIBERS THE TEMPERATURE OF THE WORLD MEASURED VALUES FOR THE HUBBLE CONSTANT Number 431 June 2, 1999 THIRD HARMONIC MICROSCOPE. METHANE DWARFS PH.D. PHYSICISTS IN THE U.S. REPORTED A MEDIAN SALARY OF $70,000 Number 432 June 7, 1999 ELEMENTS 118 AND 116 THE SPEED OF LIGHT IS INDEPENDENT OF FREQUENCY THE SURFACE OF MARS THE PAINTINGS OF JACKSON POLLACK Number 433 June 15, 1999 ZERO-POINT MOTION IN A BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE ACOUSTIC-DEPENDENT FRICTION. Number 434 June 18, 1999 MEASURING THE FREQUENCY OF LIGHT TO NEW LEVELS OF PRECISION HOW DO COMPLEX ORGANISMS FORM? Number 435 June 21, 1999 HELIUM-6 NUCLEI SHARE DI-NEUTRONS DETECTION OF EARTH’S MAGNETIC FIELD USING NEUTRINOS DIRECT CP VIOLATION AT CERN Number 436 June 28, 1999 PERCEIVING MUSICAL PITCHES LONG BASELINE NEUTRINO OSCILLATION EXPERIMENTS FIRE OR ICE IN CALIFORNIA. Number 437 July 2, 1999 STAR MATERIAL DISCOVERED IN SOUTH PACIFIC ELECTROPHOSPHORESCENCE GETS THE GREEN LIGHT A RUDIMENTARY MUON MAP OF THE SKY Number 438 July 9, 1999 CLUSTERING IN GRANULAR GASES QUANTUM COMPUTERS PERFORM THEIR FIRST SIMULATION AIRLINER CONTRAILS Number 439 July 16, 1999 HAVING YOUR PHOTON AND SEEING IT TOO IMPLEMENTATION OF MOLECULAR SWITCHES VERSATILE CARBON NANOTUBES Number 440 July 23, 1999 ANTIPROTONS AT SOLAR MAXIMUM WHY IS THE SAHARA A DESERT? THE MOST POWERFUL FREE ELECTRON LASER Number 441 July 30, 1999 THE CHANDRA X-RAY TELESCOPE BLOCH STATES: NOT FOR ELECTRONS ONLY PARTICLE ACCELERATOR TURN-ONS Number 442 August 9, 1999 GRAVITY WAVE ANALYSIS FROM LIGO PROTOTYPE AT THE INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS OLYMPIAD IN-PLANE-GATE (IPG) TRANSISTORS Number 443 August 16, 1999 NUCLEAR THERMOMETER GALAXY FORMATION IN AMOEBAS X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY OF NON-CRYSTALS Number 444 August 19, 1999 SUPERSYMMETRY IN ATOMIC NUCLEI FACULTY POSITIONS FOR WOMEN Number 445 August 25, 1999 NEW THEORY OF EPILEPSY A LINEAR DECELERATOR FOR NEUTRAL MOLECULES Number 446 September 1, 1999 DARK MATTER ANNIHILATION AT THE GALACTIC CENTER TO MEASURE LOCAL GRAVITY NERVE CELLS MAY HOLD THEIR FIRE US HIGH-SCHOOL PHYSICS ENROLLMENTS AT A POSTWAR HIGH Number 447 September 9, 1999 A "FERMI-DEGENERATE" ATOMIC GAS ANOMALOUS ACCELERATION UPDATE Number 448 September 16, 1999 LIQUID CRYSTAL ACOUSTICS CLAY OSCILLONS VISUALIZING ELECTRONIC ORBITALS CORRECTION Number 449 September 23, 1999 ARE BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES SUPERFLUID? SEPARATING CHEMICAL ISOTOPES WITH A TABLETOP TERAWATT LASER Number 450 September 30, 1999 CHILLING MIRRORS WITH LIGHT COUNTING UP TO 100 MILLION QUANTUM COOL Number 451 October 8, 1999 SANDSTONE TORTUOSITY WAVY MICROSTRUCTURES NEPTUNE DIAMONDS Number 452 October 12, 1999 THE 1999 NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS THE 1999 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY Number 453 October 19, 1999 EXTRA INVISIBLE DIMENSIONS WAVE PROPERTIES OF BUCKYBALLS STRIPED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY Number 454 October 26, 1999 GRAVITY'S GRAVITY VACUUM TUBES ATTEMPT A COMEBACK CORRECTIONS Number 455 November 2, 1999 ORIGIN OF RADIO JETS NEAR A BLACK HOLE GOLD CHAINS ARE PRIZED MACH CONES: SHOCK WAVES IN DUSTY PLASMAS Number 456 November 9, 1999 ULTRASOUND IMAGING WITHOUT PHYSICAL CONTACT THE OXYGEN RED PHASE IO SODIUM JET Number 457 November 15, 1999 LASER LIGHT IN, 50-MEV PROTONS OUT 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE FERMI SEA Number 458 November 18, 1999 THE SHADOW OF A PLANET MICROFLUIDICS CAN BE DRIVEN BY HEAT HYDROGEN STORAGE IN NANOTUBES THE ONLINE JOURNAL PUBLISHING SERVICE (OJPS) Number 459 November 29, 1999 UNDERSEA VOLCANO SWIRLED SPHERE MAGIC NUMBERS THE TOP PHYSICISTS IN HISTORY Number 460 December 7, 1999 MEASUREMENTS OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND COOPERATIVE EVAPORATION ATOM TRAP TRACE ANALYSIS Number 461 December 10, 1999 NATURALLY OCCURRING RADIATION LEVELS ARE MUCH LOWER TODAY MAXWELL'S DEMON MADE OF SAND THE TOP PHYSICS STORIES FOR 1999 Number 462 December 17, 1999 COMPETING ARROWS OF TIME STARLIGHT REFLECTED FROM AN EXTRASOLAR PLANET Number 463 December 22, 1999 THE SOLAR WIND DISAPPEARED SPONGELIKE STRUCTURES NEAR THE SUN'S SURFACE THE RAREST NATURALLY OCCURRING ISOTOPE Number 464 December 27, 1999 SUPERCONDUCTING BALLS TWO-DIMENSIONAL COLLOIDAL CRYSTALS SEEMINGLY DEFY COULOMB'S LAW