2009 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society
November 30, 2009 - December 4, 2009The Origin of Galaxies: Lessons from the Distant Universe
December 12, 2009 - December 17, 2009Elihu Boldt
15 July 1931 - 12 September 2008
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD
Brian Pippard
07 September 1920 - 21 September 2008
Cambridge University
Cambridge, UK
In the Magazine November 2009
Materials in extreme environments
The study of materials under harsh conditions is essential to meet a range of energy challenges—from creating better turbines, reactors, and batteries to developing future energy systems in dense plasmas
Human-generated sound and marine mammals
Loud anthropogenic noises can alter the behavior of whales and other marine mammals, sometimes with fatal consequences
Paul Dirac, a man apart
Dirac practiced theoretical physics for almost 60 years with a unique style: a sometimes baffling combination of intuition, imagination, rectilinear logic, and steam-hammer mathematical power
International research university opens in Saudi Arabia
The well-funded, strategically executed yet isolated experiment could fly or flop
The surprising motion of ski moguls
Regularly spaced bumps that arise on ski slopes defy intuition by migrating uphill, even though skiers and snow move downhill
Physics Update
Arresting colloidal gel structures
Musicality of speech changes with mood
Politics and Policy