Is there a future for JDEM?
Nature News
How did precolumbian societies extract gold?
ScienceNOW
How to keep planes from colliding with lasers
Wired.com
The current reality of cyberwar
NYTimes.com
Penrose Albright, former Homeland Security Secretary, named Global Security leader at Lawrence Livermore
Physics Today
Los Alamos National Laboratory names six scientists as 2009 Fellows
Physics Today
AAPT Executive Board Adopts A Statement on Research Experiences for Undergraduates
American Association of Physics Teachers
AVS 56th International Symposium and Exhibition
November 8, 2009 - November 13, 2009Review of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
November 14, 2009 - November 14, 2009Nano and Green Technology 2009 Conference and Symposium
November 17, 2009 - November 19, 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
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