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2000 Index
Number 465 January 7, 2000
  1. AMPLIFYING AN ATOM WAVE
  2. HIGH PROTON POLARIZATION
  3. COSMIC RAYS OBSERVED BY GRAVITY-WAVE DETECTOR
Number 466 January 12, 2000
  1. NEUTRONS HAVE BEEN CAPTURED AND STORED IN A MAGNETIC TRAP
  2. TWO-ELECTRON PRISON BREAK
  3. SCANNING GATE MICROSCOPY
Number 467 January 18, 2000
  1. THE X-RAY BACKGROUND
  2. OTHER CHANDRA RESULTS
  3. SOLITARY, WANDERING BLACK HOLES
Number 468 January 28, 2000
  1. OPTICAL BLACK HOLES
  2. THE FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES
  3. SNOW SCREECHING ON WATER
Number 469 February 2, 2000
  1. DIGITAL ENTROPY
  2. THE MOST PROTON-RICH NUCLEUS
  3. GUIDING NEUTRAL ATOMS AROUND CURVES
Number 470 February 10, 2000
  1. A NEW FORM OF NUCLEAR MATTER
  2. D-WAVE SQUID
Number 471 February 17, 2000
  1. MOLECULES HAVE BEEN FORMED WITHIN A BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATE (BEC)
  2. QUANTUM MIRAGE
  3. FIRST SPACECRAFT IN ORBIT AROUND AN ASTEROID.
  4. ATTOSECOND LIGHT PULSES.
  5. UNEMPLOYMENT LEVELS WERE ONLY 2 PERCENT FOR U.S. PHYSICS PHDS
Number 472 February 24, 2000
  1. LIGHT AT 1 MPH
  2. ALL-OPTICAL NMR
  3. CANDIDATE DARK MATTER PARTICLES
  4. CORRECTION
Number 473 March 3, 2000
  1. ULTRAVIOLET LASER AT DESY
  2. SNOWBALLS SURVIVE IN HELLISH CONDITIONS
  3. MAXIMALLY RANDOM JAMMING
  4. DARK MATTER UPDATE
Number 474 March 10, 2000
  1. HIGHLY OPTIMIZED TOLERANCE
  2. 16 CONSECUTIVE MONTHS OF RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES
  3. ANAMORPHIC IMAGES
  4. ATMOSPHERIC INFRASOUND
Number 475 March 17, 2000
  1. STRANGE HALO ORBITS EXPECTED AT SATURN
  2. THE FIRST ENTANGLEMENT OF FOUR PARTICLES
  3. REMOVING A COMMUNICATIONS BOTTLENECK WITH INKJETS
Number 476 March 24, 2000
  1. TOPSY TURVY: THE FIRST TRUE "LEFT HANDED" MATERIAL
Number 477 March 31, 2000
  1. SIGNIFICANT BREAKTHROUGHS IN EARLY CANCER DETECTION
  2. THE BROADWAY INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
Number 478 April 6, 2000
  1. AN ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT MIMICS YEN-DOLLAR FLUCTUATIONS
  2. SUNSPOTS ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN
  3. THE MOST POWERFUL TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE
Number 479 April 13, 2000
  1. DARK ENERGY AND THE MICROWAVE BACKGROUND
  2. STORAGE OF HARD X-RAYS IN A CRYSTAL RESONATOR
  3. THE LONGEST COMET TAIL
  4. TSUNAMIS IN LAKE TAHOE
  5. UPDATE SUBSCRIPTION REMINDER
Number 480 April 24, 2000
  1. EXPLOITING QUANTUM "SPOOKINESS" TO CREATE SECRET CODES
Number 481 April 27, 2000
  1. BEST MAP YET OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND (CMB)
  2. QUANTUM HEAT
Number 482 May 3, 2000
  1. BEST MEASUREMENT OF THE GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT
  2. MAGNETIC FIELDS ARE EVERYWHERE
Number 483 May 5, 2000
  1. GRAVITY HAS BEEN MEASURED AT THE SUB-MILLIMETER SCALE
  2. 1997/98 PHYSICS DEMOGRAPHICS
Number 484 May 11, 2000
  1. THE SPEED OF LIGHT IS INDEPENDENT
  2. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MATTER MEETS ANTIMATTER?
  3. FEMTONEWTON FORCE MEASUREMENTS OF DNA MOLECULES
Number 485 May 18, 2000
  1. LASER COOLING BY COHERENT SCATTERING
  2. MAGNETIC FIELDS INSIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS
  3. MICRON-SIZED LASERS
Number 486 May 26, 2000
  1. FREELY ROTATING MAGNETIC PARTICLES
  2. ATOM CHIPS
  3. ATOMOSPHERIC GAMMA RAYS
Number 487 June 2, 2000, 2000
  1. THE FIRST GLOBAL IMAGE OF THE EARTH'S PLASMASPHERE
  2. DELIVERING GENES AND DRUGS WITH ULTRASOUND-ACTIVATED BUBBLES
Number 488 June 9, 2000, 2000
  1. METALLIC DEUTERIUM
  2. ISOTOPES DON'T HAVE TO BE RADIOACTIVE
  3. JUPITER'S MOON IO BEARS WATCHING
Number 489 June 15, 2000, 2000
  1. RHIC'S FIRST COLLISIONS ARE GOLDEN
  2. CATCHING TINY LEAKS WITH SOUND
Number 490 June 22, 2000, 2000
  1. ATOMIC SCALE LOCOMOTIVES
  2. NM-RESOLUTION VISIBLE-LIGHT MICROSCOPY
  3. THE NEXT GENERATION SPACE TELESCOPE (NGST)
Number 491 June 29, 2000, 2000
  1. NEW MEASUREMENTS OF DEUTERIUM
  2. THE NEXT PHASE OF THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT
  3. MARTIAN GULLIES
Number 492 July 6, 2000
  1. DISCOVERY OF SOFT DIPOLE RESONANCE IN HELIUM-6
  2. A SUPERCONDUCTING "SCHRODINGER'S CAT"
  3. ADAPTIVE OPTICS HAS NOW BEEN APPLIED TO HUMAN VISION
Number 493 July 12, 2000
  1. A SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSISTOR-LIKE DEVICE
  2. INTENSITY MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY (IMRT)
  3. A TIME CAPSULE FROM ARCHIMEDES
Number 494 July 17, 2000
  1. NEW FRONTIERS OF THERMODYNAMICS
Number 495 July 20, 2000
  1. DIRECT EVIDENCE FOR TAU NEUTRINOS
  2. SUPERLUMINAL LIGHT PROPAGATION
Number 496 July 24, 2000
  1. TWO-DIMENSIONAL TURBULENT FLOWS LEAK SIGNIFICANT ENERGY
  2. SINGLE-ELECTRON DETECTOR AND COUNTER
  3. ROLLING DICE AND FLIPPING BURGERS
Number 497 August 16, 2000
  1. THE MAJOR STRUCTURE OF THE RIBOSOME
  2. AN ELECTRICALLY POWERED, ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR LASER
  3. FIRST RESULTS FROM B FACTORIES
Number 498 August 22, 2000
  1. CONTROLLABLE FEMTO-PULSES
  2. NONMOLECULAR NITROGEN
  3. PYRAMID POWER
Number 499 August 25, 2000
  1. RUBIDIUM FOUNTAIN CLOCK
  2. SYNCHRONIZING CLOCKS USING ENTANGLED PARTICLES
  3. CORRECTIONS
Number 500 August 31, 2000
  1. NUCLEAR ENERGY USED TO EXCITE ATOMS
  2. BRAIDED LIGHT
  3. CRYSTAL GROWTH STARTS FLAT
  4. WOMEN IN PHYSICS
Number 501 September 7, 2000
  1. CAN ELECTRONS SPLIT UP INTO SMALLER FRAGMENTS?
  2. THE FIRST HIGH-PERFORMANCE ALL-POLYMER INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
Number 502 September 14, 2000
  1. AN INTRIGUING HINT OF THE HIGGS BOSON
  2. A PLANETESIMAL AGGREGATION EXPERIMENT
  3. TRILOBITE MOLECULES
Number 503 September 22, 2000
  1. NON-QUANTIZED MAGNETIC BUNDLES INSIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS
  2. SINGLE-MOLECULE STM CHEMISTRY
  3. ENTANGLED PHOTONS CAN DEFEAT THE DIFFRACTION LIMIT
Number 504 September 28, 2000
  1. PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE IS TEN YEARS OLD TODAY
Number 505 October 4, 2000
  1. FIRST RESULTS FROM RHIC
  2. DIRECT PHOTONS ARE SEEN IN HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS
  3. CONNECTING THE WAVE AND PARTICLE ASPECTS OF LIGHT
Number 506 October 10, 2000
  1. THE 2000 PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE
  2. QUANTUM TESTS AT THE HIGHEST ELECTRIC FIELDS
  3. SEMI-SUPERFLUIDITY
Number 507 October 10, 2000
  1. THE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY
  2. THE 2000 NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE
  3. SUMMARIZING THE THREE SCIENCE NOBELS
Number 508 October 19, 2000
  1. A PLASMA LENS FOR GeV PARTICLES
  2. HEARTBEATS ARE HIGHLY INTERRELATED DURING REM SLEEP
  3. TABLETOP POSITRON FORCE
Number 509 October 25, 2000
  1. NEURAL NOISE CAN HELP REGULATE HUMAN BLOOD PRESSURE
  2. SOUND WAVES GO ROUND AND ROUND
  3. WORLD'S SMALLEST CALORIMETER
Number 510 November 1, 2000
  1. TABLETOP LASER ACCELERATORS ARE BRIGHTER AND FASTER
  2. TEMPEST IN A TYPHOON
  3. A CELLULAR AUTOMATA MODEL
Number 511 November 8, 2000
  1. HIGH DENSITY AFM DATA STORAGE
  2. TUNABLE MICROMECHANICAL OSCILLATOR
  3. SERIAL-TO-PARALLEL CONVERSION AT 140 GBIT/SEC
Number 512 November 15, 2000
  1. STRANGELETS ARE STRANGE BUT NOT DANGEROUS
  2. STERILE NEUTRINO RESULTS
  3. GAMMA RAY BURSTS AND SUPER-NOVAS
  4. QUANTUM PHYSICS BEGAN 100 YEARS AGO
Number 513 November 22, 2000
  1. THE INTERNET IS SURPRISINGLY ROBUST
  2. COSMIC RAYS AND CLOUD COVER
Number 514 November 29, 2000
  1. NEW UPPER LIMIT ON GRAVITY WAVE EVENTS IN OUR GALAXY
  2. LIGHT AMPLIFICATION IN SILICON
  3. PERYLENE
Number 515 December 6, 2000
  1. THE LAKE DISTRICT ON MARS
  2. SCHEMES FOR ALL-OPTICAL SPIN CURRENTS
  3. AN ACOUSTIC NOSE
Number 516 December 14, 2000
  1. INTEGRATED ATOM OPTICS
  2. DRIPPING FROM FAUCETS AND CEILINGS
Number 517 December 21, 2000
  1. LIMITS ON THE COSMIC EVOLUTION OF THE FINE STRUCTURE CONSTANT
  2. WHEN BLACK HOLES COLLIDE
  3. BEAM PHOTOGRAPHY
Number 518 December 22, 2000
  1. DUAL-PROTON NUCLEAR DECAY MAY BE IN THE CARDS
  2. A HIDDEN OCEAN ON GANYMEDE
  3. A GREEN OCEAN IN BRAZIL