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Number 667 December 30, 2003
  1. World's First Light Emitting Transistor
  2. Glial Cells and Epilepsy
  3. Improved Tandem Organic LEDs
Number 666 December 18, 2003
  1. Bringing the Nucleon into Sharper Focus
  2. A True One-Dimensional Atomic System
Number 665 December 10, 2003
  1. Light Frozen in a Hall of Atomic Mirrors
  2. Do Quantum Measurements Change If the Detector Moves?
Number 664 December 3, 2003
  1. The Top Physics Stories of 2003
  2. Relativistic Chaos
Number 663 November 25, 2003
  1. BEC Made From Fermion Molecules
  2. Magnetic Graphite
  3. Do Microfluid Pumps Give Humans Their Sensitive Hearing?
Number 662 November 18, 2003
  1. A Liquid Wall in a Fusion Energy Device
  2. Electron Spins Can Control Nuclear Spins
Number 661 November 11, 2003
  1. The Furthest Manmade Thing
  2. ITER Tops the DOE List of Facility Priorities
  3. A Better Look at Atomic Vibrations
  4. Gallium Clusters are Too Small to Melt
Number 660 November 4, 2003
  1. Micro-Origami Fabricated Micromirrors
  2. Acceleration Disrupts Quantum Teleportation
  3. A Close Look at Hagfish Slime
Number 659 October 28, 2003
  1. A Map of the Universe
  2. An Electrical Micro-Generator
  3. The High and Low Notes of the Universe
Number 658 October 21, 2003
  1. Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets
  2. Evidence for an Unusually Active Sune
  3. Can a Single Gas Bubble Sink a Ship?
Number 657 October 14, 2003
  1. Cosmology Theories Come and Go
  2. Why Don't Alcohol and Water Mix Very Well?
  3. A New Type of Medium Interface Features Negative Refraction
Number 656 October 7, 2003
  1. The 2003 Physics Nobel Prize
  2. The 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine
Number 655 September 26, 2003
  1. An Ultrabright Tunable Photon-Pair Source
  2. The Relativity of Time
  3. Malleability of Spacetime
Number 654 September 17, 2003
  1. A Single-Atom Laser
  2. The Laser Interferometry Space Antenna (LISA)
  3. The Fraction of Physics Graduate Students
Number 653 September 12, 2003
  1. Nanotube Velcro
  2. Good Vibrations Help a Frog Locate Tasty Prey
  3. Horizontal Brazil Nut Effect
Number 652 September 4, 2003
  1. A Spinless BEC
  2. Pressing Forward from Teeth to Superconductors
  3. Non-Contact Friction
Number 651 August 28, 2003
  1. The Big Rip: A New Cosmic Doomsday
  2. Ultracold Molecular Bose Gases
Number 650 August 20, 2003
  1. Giant Helium Molecules
  2. Like-Charged Biomolecules Can Attract Each Other
Number 649 August 13, 2003
  1. Detecting Plastic Explosives in Air
  2. Barium Shield to Protect the Fetus During CT Scans
  3. Cellophane and 3D Displays
Number 648 August 1, 2003
  1. A Water Molecule's Chemical Formula is Really Not H20
  2. A Nanoscopic Thermometer
Number 647 July 23, 2003
  1. The Proton has a Different Size in Different Nuclei
  2. NMR Without the Magnet or RF Coils
  3. Milling Diamond Films
Number 646 July 16, 2003
  1. Photonic Crystal Shifts Energy
  2. Picosecond X-ray Crystallography of a Protein
  3. Tumor Fly-Through Movies
Number 645 July 9, 2003
  1. Ultra-intense Light Filaments
  2. "Mottness" Might Help to Explain Cuprate Behavior
  3. Semiconductors are Cool
Number 644 June 30, 2003
  1. A Five-Quark State Has Been Discovered
  2. GH-T Squids Prodice Magnetocardiograms
Number 643 June 26, 2003
  1. The Meson Ds(2317)
  2. Mountain-Climbing Atoms
Number 642 June 19, 2003
  1. Intriguing Oddities in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions
  2. Solar Flares and Global Warming
  3. Star Out of Round
Number 641 June 12, 2003
  1. The Twisted Origin of Spheromaks
  2. A Carbon Nanotube Composite Fiber
  3. "Color Filtering" at the Atomic Level
Number 640 June 5, 2003
  1. Femtosecond Lasers for Cutting and Imaging Brain Tissue
  2. A Plasma Valve
Number 639 May 30, 2003
  1. Optical Peristalsis
  2. A New Optical Geometric Phase
Number 638 May 22, 2003
  1. A Solid State Plasma
  2. The Conventional Theory of Dark Matter
  3. Orca Acoustics
  4. A Space Mission to the Earth's Core
Number 637 May 14, 2003
  1. Plasma Wakefields Accelerate Positrons
  2. Turning Bubbles into Microscopic Syringes
  3. First-Year Physics Graduate Students
Number 636 May 7, 2003
  1. Ultra-Low-Energy Electrons Can Break Up Uracil
  2. Perfect Insulin Crystals
  3. The Tiniest Solid-State Light Emitter
Number 635 May 1, 2003
  1. A "Water Hammer" Powers Up Sonoluminescence
  2. Nicaragua is Wet Underneath
  3. Carbon Nanowire (CNW)
Number 634 April 23, 2003
  1. Shocking Color Effects
  2. Femtogram Mass Detection
  3. BECs Undergo Bragg Explosion
Number 633 April 16, 2003
  1. The First Single-Molecule, Single-Base-Resolution DNA Sequencing
  2. Charge Symmetry Breaking
  3. Tunable Photonic Crystals
Number 632 April 9, 2003
  1. First Fusion at the Z Machine
  2. First Ligo Scientific Results
Number 631 April 2, 2003
  1. The First-Ever Large China-Taiwan Scientific Collaboration
  2. Spaceship Travel to Another Universe Through a Black Hole
  3. Stretchable Gold Conductors
Number 630 March 27, 2003
  1. Supercontinuum Light is Red-Hot
  2. Watching Bricks Age
  3. Gamma Ray Bursters and Supernovas
  4. The Physics of Spear Throwing
Number 629 March 19, 2003
  1. The Sharpest Ever Optical Image of Molecular Vibrations
  2. How Does the Sun Shine?
  3. Blood Vessel Networks
Number 628 March 13, 2003
  1. Left Handed Materials
  2. The Giant Planar Hall Effect
  3. DNA Fuel for Free-Running Nanomachines
Number 627 March 7, 2003
  1. Microfluidics
  2. The Search for an RNA "Eve"
Number 626 February 26, 2003
  1. 3600 Atoms in Two Places at Once
  2. Tunable Optical Fibers
  3. Shaken Not Stirred
Number 625 February 19, 2003
  1. From Femtochemistry to Attophysics
  2. A New Limit on Photon Mass
  3. A Molecular Switch Took Only 47 Zepto-Joules
Number 624 February 13, 2003
  1. A Pinpoint Precision MAP
  2. Salt: The Movie
  3. Ultraviolet Lithography
Number 623 February 5,2003
  1. New Superburst Theory
  2. Lorentz Violations? Not Yet
  3. Ground Temperatures Since the Year 1500
Number 622 January 27,2003
  1. Butterflies and Photonic Crystals
  2. Synchronization Tomography
  3. The Physics of Stone Throwing
Number 621 January 17, 2003
  1. Scattered Chatter
  2. A Strongly Interacting Degenerate Fermi Gas
Number 620 January 13, 2003
  1. The Speed of Gravity
  2. BEC Ends Globally but Starts Locally
Number 619 January 3, 2003
  1. X-Rated Interferometry
  2. Feasible Chaotic Encryption