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2001 Index
Number 570 December 21, 2001
  1. The Bacterial Divide
  2. Dendrimer Lasers
  3. A Tiny Microphone Diaphragm Based on Fly Ears
  4. A Quantum Computer Has Factored the Number 15
Number 569 December 14, 2001
  1. Physics Stories of the Year for 2001
  2. Oceans Might Be Common and Diverse
  3. A Nano-Electron-Volt Neutral Atom Storage Ring
Number 568 December 7, 2001
  1. Ultrasound Scans are Audible to a Fetus
  2. Tracking DNA Motion with Picometer Accuracy
  3. Breaking a Quantum Symmetry on the Tabletop
Number 567 November 29, 2001
  1. Attosecond Physics Has Arrived
  2. Insulator to Metal in Only 100 Femtoseconds
Number 566 November 21, 2001
  1. Hidden Objects Revealed With Quantum Holography
  2. Puzzling Neutrino Results at Fermilab
Number 565 November 14, 2001
  1. Quantum Acoustics
  2. Singing Like a Canary
  3. The Femtosecond Delay in Electron Collective Motion
Number 564 November 7, 2001
  1. The Thinnest Superconducting Wires
  2. Pyroelectric Accelerator
  3. Sound Waves Make Filters Finer
Number 563 October 31, 2001
  1. What Is Intelligence?
  2. X-ray Flash Fly Photography
  3. All-Optical Electron Injector
Number 562 October 23, 2001
  1. Loop Quantum Gravity
  2. Implantable BioMEMs
  3. Physics News Update Subscription Reminder
Number 561 October 15, 2001
  1. CO2 Production at the Single-Molecule Level
  2. Sticky and Slippery Nanobubbles
  3. Nobel Prize Addendum
Number 560 October 9, 2001
  1. The 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics
  2. Quantum Fingerprinting
Number 559 October 3, 2001
  1. New Model of Intergalactic Magnetic Fields
  2. Ultraviolet Prompts Bacterial Trek
  3. BEC on a Chip
Number 558 September 26, 2001
  1. Entanglement of Macroscopic Objects
  2. The Black Hole of Geneva
  3. Turing Model for Ladybug Beetle Patterns
Number 557 September 20, 2001
  1. The Greening of North Latitudes
  2. An Anomalous Acoustoelectric Effect
  3. Multiplayer Quantum Games
Number 556 September 13, 2001
  1. Empty Spaces Can Exert Forces on Each Other.
  2. A Novel Interferometer
  3. "The Italian Navigator Has Landed"
Number 555 September 6, 2001
  1. Evidence for a Re-ionization Era
  2. Superconductivity at 117K in a Buckyball Crystal
  3. Laser-Like Amplification of Entangled Particles
Number 554 August 30, 2001
  1. Evidence for the Onset of Quark Effects
  2. Bronz Age Artifacts
  3. Spiraling in on Nanosprings
Number 553 August 23, 2001
  1. Superheavy Hydrogen
  2. A Superconducting Single-Photon Detector
  3. An Electromechanical Transistor
  4. Crystalline Ion Beams
Number 552 August 20, 2001
  1. Doubly Strange Nuclei
  2. The Antiproton's Mass and Charge
  3. Is Alpha, like Pi, a Fundamental Constant?
Number 551 August 8, 2001
  1. An optical atomic clock
  2. Evidence for chaos in the neocortex
  3. High temperature superconductors might be vibrational
Number 550 August 1, 2001
  1. Element 118 Has Been Erased from the Periodic Table
  2. Insect Senses Suggest Novel Neural Networks
  3. The Most Precisely Located Astronomical Object
  4. Delivery of Single Atoms on Demand
Number 549 July 24, 2001
  1. The Expeditious Construction of a Linear Collider
Number 548 July 20, 2001
  1. The Physics of Prion Diseases
  2. The Nuclear Lightouse Effect
Number 547 July 12, 2001
  1. CP Violation in the Decay of B Mesons
  2. Why Don't Circadian Rhythms Coincide With the 24-Hour Day?
  3. Caution: Slippage Might Occur
Number 546 July 5, 2001
  1. Watching Optical Tornadoes Reverse Their Spin
  2. Chains of Individual Gold Atoms
  3. The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP)
Number 545 June 22, 2001
  1. All-Optical BEC
  2. Semiconducting Magnets at High Temperature
  3. Ultraviolet From LEDs and FELs
Number 544 June 22, 2001
  1. The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
  2. Mortal Enemies Form Powerful Alliances
Number 543 June 13, 2001
  1. Not All Chaos on the Weather Map is Equal
  2. Room Temperature Spin Injection
  3. An Intel Transistor is the Smallest
Number 542 June 7, 2001
  1. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  2. Current Densities in MgB2 Superconductors
  3. The Crack of a Baseball Bat
Number 541 June 1, 2001
  1. Physicists in Industry Continue to Enjoy Rising Salaries
  2. Quick Crystallization With Sound Waves
  3. Perforated Diamond Anvils
Number 540 May 23, 2001
  1. Photodetectors From DNA
  2. Anti-Molecules
  3. A Lighter-Than-Air Plasma Can Deflect an Intense Electron Beam
Number 539 May 15, 2001
  1. Deconstructing Dimensions
  2. Computing With Waves
Number 538 May 7, 2001
  1. First Direct Evidence of Black Hole Rotation
  2. Chaotic Two Photon Laser
  3. Correction
Number 537 May 2, 2001
  1. Major New Cosmic Microwave Background Measurements
  2. Unexpected Physics Conditions in RHIC Collisions
Number 536 April 27, 2001
  1. Ultrasonic Bandgap Materials
  2. The Limits of Superluminal Propagation
  3. Complexity at Low Reynolds Number
Number 535 April 20, 2001
  1. Helium-9 Ground state Observed
  2. A Bright Idea for Carbon Nanotubes
  3. Ekpyrosis: A New Theory of the Big Bang
Number 534 April 12, 2001
  1. A Photonic Transistor
  2. A Negative Index of Refraction
Number 533 March 28, 2001
  1. A Diamond as Big as the Ritz
  2. Quantum Teleportation of a Moving Atom
  3. Fluid Oxygen Becomes Metallic
  4. Most Distant Supernova
  5. The Biggest Quasar Survey Ever
Number 532 March 28, 2001
  1. Programmable Black Hole Computers
  2. A Bose Einstein Condensate in Helium
  3. Fusion Avalanches
  4. Correction
Number 531 March 22, 2001
  1. A Scheme for the Fabrication of Large Arrays of Carbon Nanotube Field-effect Transistors
  2. Molecular Beacons for Cancer
  3. Using the Moon as a Cosmic Ray Detector
Number 530 March 16, 2001
  1. Bosenova: Supernova in a Bottle
  2. The New Magnesium Boride Superconductors
  3. Squid Detectives
Number 529 March 8, 2001
  1. The Most Spherical Thing
  2. Refrigerator on a Chip
  3. High Density Holographic Data Storage
  4. Superconductivity in Plastic
Number 528 March 1, 2001
  1. Switchable X Ray Storage
  2. A Sharp Gamma-Ray Hologram
  3. Correction
Number 527 February 23, 2001
  1. Silicon Cage Clusters: Better Than Buckyballs?
  2. Untying the Knot
  3. Permian Catastrophe Comet?
  4. Correction
Number 526 February 13, 2001
  1. All-metal Superconductivity at 40K
  2. The Higgs Search at Fermilab
  3. The First Drafts of the Human Genome
  4. The Near-Shoemaker Spacecraft
Number 525 February 13, 2001
  1. CP Violations in B Mesons: First Official Experimental Results
  2. Micro-Coliseums of Light
  3. Atomic Slide Puzzles
Number 524 February 8, 2001
  1. Data Storage densities of 100 Gbit/sq-in
  2. Negative Heat Capacity
  3. Near-field Scanner for Moving Molecules
  4. The Muon's Magnetic Moment is Misbehaving
Number 523 February 1, 2001
  1. Polymer Superstrings
  2. How Light Gets Through Tiny Holes
  3. Subluminal Chernekov Radiation
Number 522 January 26, 2001
  1. Accretion Disk Around a Massive Star
  2. How Random Noise Could Betray an Army's Outpost
Number 521 January 18, 2001
  1. At Last! Light Brought to a Halt
Number 520 January 16, 2001
  1. Planetary Octave
  2. Tilting at Optical Windmills
  3. Arrays of Low-temperature Sensors
  4. Correction
Number 519 January 4, 2001
  1. Physics News Stories of the Year
  2. Nonclassical Light