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2004 Index
Number 713 December 27, 2004
  1. Why Do Heart Attacks Occur Most Frequently Between 9 And 11 Am?

  2. A Pea-Sized Magnetometer

  3. DNA Stretching Cross-Stream
Number 712 December 13, 2004
  1. Is Special Relativity Wrong?

  2. Laser Lightening Rod
Number 711 December 1, 2004
  1. The Top Physics Story for 2004

  2. Soft-Metal Whiskers

  3. Non-U.S. First-Year Physics Grad Students
Number 710 November 24, 2004
  1. Mercator of the Nuclear World

  2. Detecting Megasonic Bubbles on Computer Chips

  3. Novel Quasicrystal Friction Properties
Number 709 November 17, 2004
  1. What Propels A Book To The Top Of Online Sales Charts?

  2. Atom Lithography

  3. An Avalanche Spin-Valve Transistor
Number 708 November 10, 2004
  1. Our Sixth Sense Is as Fine-Tuned as It Can Be

  2. Chemical "Defect" Engineering

  3. 100th Anniversary of Electronics
Number 707 November 3, 2004
  1. Accelerator for BECs.

  2. Cooper Pairs Unpaired
Number 706 October 27, 2004
  1. A Natural Nuclear Reactor In Gabon

  2. Swimming In Newtonian Space

  3. Supernova Debris On Earth
Number 705 October 20, 2004
  1. Crystalline Order At 40,000 K

  2. Atoms Can Transfer Their Internal "Stress" To Other Atoms
Number 704 October 13, 2004
  1. A Realistic Laser-Operated Molecular Locomotive

  2. Finding A Vein

  3. Surprising Properties of Sunlight

Number 703 October 5, 2004
  1. The 2004 Physics Nobel Prize

  2. An MRI Wind Tunnel
Number 702 September 28, 2004
  1. Twenty Million Amps of Current

  2. Red Nuclei

  3. The Helium-6 Nucleus
Number 701 September 17, 2004
  1. An Antenna for Visible Light

  2. Clock Synchronization With Entangled Photons

  3. The European Organization For Nuclear Research
Number 700 September 10, 2004
  1. Making Stellar Magnetic Fields in a Jar

  2. Can Chemical Environment Affect Nuclear Properties?

  3. Atom-Hole BECs
Number 699 September 3, 2004
  1. The Quark-Meson Coupling Model

  2. New Evidence for a Superfluid Solid
Number 698 August 26, 2004
  1. The World's Smallest Atomic Clock

  2. Optical Funnel for Focusing Cold Atoms

  3. Superprotonic Transitions
Number 697 August 19, 2004
  1. Newly Created Antihydrogen Atoms

  2. Why are Seacoasts Fractal?

  3. Nanotube Dynamos
Number 696 August 12, 2004
  1. The Massive Northeast Blackout

  2. The Long-Term Dynamics of the Electrical Grid

  3. Protein-Based Nanoactuators
Number 695 August 4, 2004
  1. Gold and Diamonds

  2. Acoustically Powered Deep-Space Electric Generator
Number 694 July 29, 2004
  1. 3D Neutron Imaging for Medicine

  2. Speech Science Sings a New Quantum Tune
Number 693 July 22, 2004
  1. Optical Hall Effect

  2. Synchronized Swimming in Bacteria

  3. Defending Networks Against Cascading Failure
Number 692 July 14, 2004
  1. Single-Spin MRFM Sensitivity at IBM

  2. Braiding Patterns in Flowing Streams
Number 691 July 7, 2004
  1. Switchable Nanotube Diodes

  2. Weak Localization of Seismic Waves

  3. Turning Passenger Trains Into Rail-Crack Detectors
Number 690 June 30, 2004
  1. Why Do Transformers Hum?

  2. Five-Photon Entanglement

  3. The Cassini Spacecraft Arrives Today at Saturn
Number 689 June 21, 2004
  1. Nanotube Water

  2. Amorphous Steel

  3. Nanoimprint Lithography

  4. Earth's Oceanic Currents and Jupiter's Bands

Number 688 June 11, 2004
  1. A New Chemotaxis Assay

  2. Performing Boolean Surgery to Unlock Biosonar's Secrets

  3. Microwave Tissue Welding
Number 687 June 4, 2004
  1. Reversing Time to Catch Snipers

  2. Observing Superfluidity in Hydrogen Molecules

  3. Microfluidic Tango: Sorting Without Diffusion
Number 686 May 28, 2004
  1. To Stop Tumors, Know How They Grow

  2. Magnetization Increases with Temperature

  3. Strontium-76 Is One of the Most Deformed Nuclei
Number 685 May 12, 2004
  1. Our Universe Has a Topology Scale of at least 24 GPC

  2. The Best Packing of M&Ms

  3. Tungsten Inverse Opal
Number 684 May 6, 2004
  1. Nuclear Car Wash

  2. The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search

  3. Persistent Holes
Number 683 April 29, 2004
  1. Illuminating the Dark Ages

  2. Magnesium-Diboride Superconductors

  3. What Kind of Fluid is a Quark-Gluon Plasma?
Number 682 April 21, 2004
  1. Exoplanet Detected Using Microlensing

  2. Parity Violation in Electron-Electron Scattering

  3. A Land Speed Record for Data Flow
Number 681 April 13, 2004
  1. First Evidence for Superfluidity in an Atom-Based Fermi Gas

  2. Greatly Improved Solar Cells
Number 680 April 8, 2004
  1. MRI With 80-Nanometer Resolution
  2. Entanglement Between a Photon and A Trapped Atom
Number 679 April 1, 2004
  1. The Core-Mantle Boundary
  2. Migraine Sufferers Exhibit "Hypersynchronized" Brain Activity
  3. Dating Water and Tracing Bones
Number 678 March 26, 2004
  1. Carbon Nanofoam is the First Pure-Carbon Magnet
  2. Tunable Surfaces
Number 677 March 18, 2004
  1. Sedna, A Planet-Like Object
  2. Unambiguous Identification of Copper Isomers
  3. Ultra-Low Friction, Without Lubricants
Number 676 March 10, 2004
  1. Microfluidic Machines
  2. Multilevel Molecular Memory
  3. High-Speed Color Telegraph
Number 675 March 3, 2004
  1. The Accelerating Expansion
  2. Sub-Wavelength Lensing
  3. Bubble Fusion
Number 674 February 23, 2004
  1. Making Decoherence Visible
  2. Negative Normal Stress
Number 673 February 18, 2004
  1. A New Approach For Calming Parkinson's Tremors
  2. Attogram Mass Detection
Number 672 February 2, 2004
  1. Element 115 Has Been Discovered
  2. Carbon Nanotube Gel
Number 671 January 30, 2004
  1. Halfway Across the BEC-BCS Prairie
Number 670 January 22, 2004
  1. Extreme Ultraviolet from Argon
  2. Pulsars with Bounce
  3. Computation in Gene Networks
Number 669 January 14, 2004
  1. Supersolid, Quantum Crystal, A Bose-Einstein Condensate in Solid
  2. Color Glass Condensate
Number 668 January 9, 2004
  1. Large Galaxies Formed Surprisingly Early
  2. Large-Scale Structures in the Early Universe
  3. Negatively Misbehaving Muons