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2006 Index
Number 807 December 28 , 2006
  1. Direct Force Sensing at the Piconewton Level

  2. New Cranked-Up Nuclear States

Number 806 December 20 , 2006
  1. Guided Atom Laser

  2. Diamond-Quality Properties

Number 805 December 13, 2006
  1. X-Ray Rainbow

  2. Best Evidence Yet for Recent Water on Mars

Number 804 December 5, 2006
  1. The Physics Story of the Year

  2. Polarized and Unpolarized Superfluid States

Number 803 November 29, 2006
  1. Protein Folding in a Curved Space

  2. Warm Detectors Look At Brain Magnetism

  3. Optical Beehive

Number 802 November 22, 2006
  1. Dark Energy at Redshift Z=1

  2. First Direct Evidence of Turbulence in Space

Number 801 November 16, 2006
  1. Unwired Energy

  2. Entangled Ions Have Been "Purified"

Number 800 November 9, 2006
  1. Coherent Exciton Matter

  2. Measuring Absolute Magnetic Moments

Number 799 November 2, 2006
  1. Changing Blood-Cell Shapes Provide Clues for Fighting Disease

  2. Slow-Motion Boiling

Number 798 October 25, 2006
  1. New Baryons Discovered

  2. Fermion Superfluidity in an Optical Lattice

Number 797 October 16, 2006
  1. Elements 116 and 118 Are Discovered

  2. A Single Pixel Is Worth a Thousand Words

Number 796 October 11, 2006
  1. First Antimatter Chemistry

  2. Uranium Beam-Pumped UV Laser

Number 795 October 3, 2006
  1. A Baby Picture That's Worth a Nobel Prize

  2. GeV Acceleration in Only 3 Centimeters

Number 794 September 26, 2006
  1. Hypersound

  2. Ellipsoidal Universe

Number 793 September 20, 2006
  1. Stronger Hurricanes Linked to Climate Change

  2. Room-Temperature Spin Hall Effect

Number 792 September 13, 2006
  1. Particle Acceleration by Stimulated Emission of Radiation -- PASER for Short

  2. Einstein's Little Machine

Number 791 September 6, 2006
  1. Laser Optical Antennas

  2. Artificial Muscles for Lifelike Color Displays

Number 790 August 30, 2006
  1. Solar System Redefined

  2. Large-area Sensor Skins and Microphones

  3. Metallic Water

Number 789 August 22, 2006
  1. Smallest Pyramids in the Universe

  2. High-Flux, Short-Burst Gamma Ray Source

Number 788 August 10, 2006
  1. Atoms in a Trap Measure Gravity at the Micron Level

  2. The Sharpest Object Yet

Number 787 August 2, 2006
  1. A Google-Like Approach to Mammograms

  2. Darksome Titanian Lakes

Number 786 July 25, 2006
  1. Chemical Transistor

  2. Asteroid Encounter Enhancement

  3. Asian Storms Push the Earth Around

Number 785 July 17, 2006
  1. A New BEC Magnetometer

  2. Dune Tunes

Number 784 July 7, 2006
  1. Red Oxygen

  2. Squeezed Light and Gravity Waves

Number 783 July 5, 2006
  1. Plumbing the Electron's Depths

Number 782 June 27, 2006
  1. Making Radioactive Scorpion Venom Safe

  2. Warm Dense Gold

Number 781 June 19, 2006
  1. Synchronization of Extinction

  2. Can String Theory Explain Dark Energy?

Number 780 June 9, 2006
  1. A Hint of Negative Electrical Resistance

  2. Your Neighbors Would Love You on Mars

Number 779 June 2, 2006
  1. A New Kind of Acoustic Laser

  2. Existence of Atoms Reaffirmed

Number 778 May 26, 2006
  1. The Misshapen Solar System

  2. Counting Terahertz Photons

Number 777 May 18, 2006
  1. Extreme-Ultraviolet Microscope Provides Record Resolution

  2. Friction at a Distance

Number 776 May 2, 2006
  1. In Protons, Virtual Strange Quarks Less Prevalent than Thought

  2. Laser Gain without Inversion, in a Solid

Number 775 April 26, 2006
  1. Testing Special Relativity and Newtonian Gravity

  2. Quark-Gluon Plasma: Has It Been Observed?

Number 774 April 19, 2006
  1. Have Particle Masses Changed since the Early Universe?

  2. Nuclear Quantum Optics

Number 773 April 12, 2006
  1. Sharper Focusing of Hard X-Rays

  2. Nano-Earthquakes: Acoustic Waves Excite Artificial Molecules

Number 772 April 6, 2006
  1. Liquid Flowing Uphill; Might Be Used to Cool Chips

  2. Entangled Photon Holes

  3. Sunlight on a Chip

Number 771 March 29, 2006
  1. Black Hole Merger Movie

  2. A Submersible Holographic Microscope

Number 770 March 23, 2006
  1. Two-Dimensional Light

  2. Nanopores and Single-Molecule Biophysics

Number 769 March 17, 2006
  1. A New Triumph for Inflation

  2. Nanotubes Unfolded

Number 768 March 9, 2006
  1. Photons Bouncing Off Each Other?

  2. Using Fiber Optics to Pinpoint Structural Problems Early

Number 767 February 28, 2006
  1. Atom Wires

  2. Formation of Large Fluid Vortices: Corporate Merger or Hostile Takeover?

  3. America's Hottest Lab

Number 766 February 21, 2006
  1. AIP Turns 75

  2. Sharper Images of Biological Samples

  3. Molecules get More Classical at High Pressures

Number 765 February 14, 2006
  1. Attack of the Teleclones

  2. Stock Market Criticality

Number 764 February 6, 2006
  1. A Superhydrophobic Surface

  2. Looking for Black Holes in the Atmosphere

Number 763 January 30, 2006
  1. Rare e-/e+/e- State.

  2. Relativistic Electron Cooling

Number 762 January 19, 2006
  1. Fission Fragments Weighed

  2. Nuclear Molecule: Nature's Smallest Dumbbell

  3. Magnetic Micro-Coils

Number 761 January 11, 2006
  1. Best Direct Test of E=mc2

  2. Planets with Two or More Suns

  3. Nanodiamonds in Space

  4. Shock-Produced Coherent Light

Number 760 January 3, 2006
  1. How Does Matter Terminate?

  2. Art in Crystallography