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2002 Index
Number 618 December 23, 2002
  1. Tuning Carbon Nanotube Resonance Frequencies
  2. Quantum Simulations With Continuous Variables
  3. PRL Changes Its Publication Dates
Number 617 December 13, 2002
  1. Physics Stories of 2002
  2. Reactor Anti-Neutrino Disappearance
  3. Ion-Channel Proteins
Number 616 December 4, 2002
  1. Acoustic Microscopy
  2. Longest Atomic State Lifetime Measured From Spontaneous Decay In UV
Number 615 November 27, 2002
  1. Refraction at the Atomic Level
  2. Cool Ferric Wheels
  3. Gentle Lithography
Number 614 November 20, 2002
  1. Record-High Magnetic Fields in the Lab
  2. Megagauss in Picoseconds
  3. Nu Approach to CP Violation
Number 613 November 13, 2002
  1. A Bi-Photon de Broglie Wavelength
  2. Icicle Instability
  3. Powerful T-Lux Spotted in Virginia
Number 612 November 6, 2002
  1. Individual Base Pairs
  2. Noise Can Improve Human Balance Control
  3. Extra-Dense Glassy Ice
Number 611 October 29, 2002
  1. The Internal States of Anti-Hydrogen
  2. Testing New Physics With Nothing
  3. Tooth and Nail
Number 610 October 22, 2002
  1. Trapping DNA Through Thermophoresis
  2. Noninvasive EEGs
  3. Naval Neutrinos
Number 609 October 15, 2002
  1. Neutron Holography
  2. First Detailed Positronium Scattering Experiment
  3. Superconductivity in Lithium
Number 608 October 8, 2002
  1. The 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics
  2. 3-Dimensional Ink
  3. Quaoar
  4. SLAC is 40 Years Old
Number 607 October 2, 2002
  1. A Clean Air Act At the Quantum Scale
  2. Arctic Europa
  3. The Semiconductor Laser is 40 Years Old
Number 606 September 25, 2002
  1. Bell Labs/Lucent Researcher Did Fabricate Data
  2. Polarization in the Microwave Background
  3. Making Bosons Act Like Fermions
  4. Solar Surgery
Number 605 September 18, 2002
  1. Cold Anti-Hydrogen Atoms
  2. A Solid State Cathode Ray Tube
  3. Fast, Cheap Random Numbers
Number 604 September 13, 2002
  1. "Hyper-Focusing" a Sound Wave
  2. Self-Assembled Nanotube Networks
  3. Demagogues and the Prisoner's Dilemma
Number 603 September 9, 2002
  1. How Jupiter Got Its Stripes
  2. Atoms Light Up Very Rapidly Near Nanotubes
  3. Photonics plus Spintronics
Number 602 August 30, 2002
  1. A DNA Laser
  2. Distinguishing Between Pointlike and "Extended" Dark Matter
  3. A New Kind of Ocean Wave Has Been Discovered
Number 601 August 26, 2002
  1. Left-Handed Materials
  2. Producing Laser-Driven Ion Jets
Number 600 August 1, 2002
  1. High-Precision Tests of the Standard Model
  2. New Cosmological Upper Limit on Neutrino Mass
  3. A New Way of Measuring Complexity
  4. Physics News Update
Number 599 July 24, 2002
  1. An Ultra Low-Density Liquid
  2. Ice Ages and Spiral Arms
  3. Sonoluminescence is Chemical in Nature
Number 598 July 17, 2002
  1. Pushing the Second Law to the Limit
  2. BEC Created and Moved in Surface Microtrap
Number 597 July 9, 2002
  1. Nanotube Diagnostic X-Rays
  2. Element 118 Retraction
  3. Artificial Leaves
  4. Gamma Knife
Number 596 July 2, 2002
  1. Liquid Light
  2. Spinonics
  3. Universal Veins
Number 595 June 26, 2002
  1. Ballistic Magnetoresistance
  2. Nanospintronics: A Single-Spin Transistor
  3. An Optically Pumped Nanocrystal Quantum Dot Laser
Number 594 June 20, 2002
  1. A Protoplanetary Disk
  2. A Laser-Powered Paper Plane
  3. Evolutionary Metallurgy
Number 593 June 10, 2002
  1. Nuclear Pyramids
  2. Can Random Environmental Fluctuations Increase Air Pollution Levels?
  3. Thin Layer Lubricants
Number 592 June 4, 2002
  1. Charm School For Quarks
  2. Subglacial Lake Life
  3. Optical Pea Shooter
  4. Rapid-Response Hydrogels
Number 591 May 29, 2002
  1. The Sharpest CMB Pictures Yet
  2. Landslide Tectonism on Io?
  3. A Single-Photon LED
  4. Microsatellite Plasma Propulsion
Number 590 May 21, 2002
  1. The Most Precise Test Yet of Special Relativity
  2. Carbon Nanotube Transistors
  3. Solid Nitrogen in Nanocages
Number 589 May 16, 2002
  1. Discrete Chromium
  2. Terabit-Per-Square-Inch Hard Drive Areal Densities
  3. On-Chip Vacuum Microtriode
Number 588 May 9, 2002
  1. Bright Solitons in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
  2. Another Universe Might Lurk Only Millimeters Away
  3. Tungsten Photonic Crystal
Number 587 April 30, 2002
  1. Point Sources for Extreme Cosmic Rays?
  2. Hydrogen at Extremely High Pressures
  3. A New Optical Technique for Identifying DNA Bases
Number 586 April 24, 2002
  1. The Solar Neutrino Problem Has Been Closed
  2. Dark Matter Detectors
Number 585 April 16, 2002
  1. Quark Stars
  2. Ultrahigh-Energy Neutrinos
Number 584 April 9, 2002
  1. Infant Respiratory Disease
  2. Dimming Supernovas without Cosmic Acceleration
Number 583 April 1, 2002
  1. Science and Ultimate Reality
Number 582 March 26, 2002
  1. Micro-Tesla MRI
  2. Electrical Measurements of Individual Living Cells
  3. Atomic Force Microscopy Yields 3D Protein Structure
Number 581 March 22, 2002
  1. A Molecular BEC
  2. Hopes for a Hole-Doped Metal Superconductor
Number 580 March 13, 2002
  1. All-Optical Trapping of a Degenerate Fermi Gas
  2. Nanotubes are Hot
  3. The Largest Thing in the Solar System
Number 579 March 5, 2002
  1. A Matter-Wave Interferometer for Large Molecules
  2. Has Nuclear Fusion Been Observed in a Bubble Tank?
Number 578 February 27, 2002
  1. Fractal Carbon Nanopore Network
  2. Using Clocks in Space to Search for New Physics
Number 577 February 20, 2002
  1. Cold Antihydrogen Atoms
  2. Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
  3. Nonlinear Laser with Ultralow Threshhold
Number 576 February 7, 2002
  1. A Slice of Microbial Life
  2. Light-Activated Plastic Magnet
  3. Werner Heisenberg's Wartime Visit
Number 575 January 30, 2002
  1. Spiral Waves Break Hearts
  2. Squeezing Information from Zipping Programs
Number 574 January 23, 2002
  1. New Limits on the Search for Missing SUSY
  2. The Science of Roughness
Number 573 January 16, 2002
  1. Quantum Gravitational States
  2. Looking at Extrasolar Planets By Direct Observation
Number 572 January 8, 2002
  1. Random Noise and An Ice-Age Roller Coaster
  2. Nuclei Go Through Phases
Number 571 January 2, 2002
  1. A New Limit on the Overall Validity of Special Relativity
  2. Slowing and Storing Light in a Solid
  3. A Sonic Crystal