The breakup of the Soviet Union has led to welcome progress in nuclear disarmament but also to a worrisome vulnerability of the vast nuclear stockpiles accumulated there. The US has been working with Russia to tighten controls on fissile material that could be used in nuclear weapons -- Frank von Hippel
Sometimes theory and experiment are both correct but do not agree with each other; sometimes a wrong theory agrees with experiment. One must therefore be careful not to jump to conclusions -- Amikam Aharoni
Physicists and friends celebrating Hans Bethe's scientific ingenuity and moral influence throughout his first 60 years at Cornell University -- Irwin Goodwin
Inhaling hyperpolarized noble gas helps magnetic resonance imaging of lungs. Lungs are very hard to image. Magnetic resonance imaging of inhaled noble gases optically pumped to high levels of nuclear polarization may offer the solution clinicians are looking for.
Sodium atoms kicked by standing waves provide a new probe of quantum chaos. Several features of quantum chaos have been demonstrated in a system of sodium atoms interacting with a modulated standing wave of light. The system can be tuned continuously from a regime that can be described classically to one where a quantum description is necessary.
Astronomical image processing may improve breast cancer diagnostics. Medical and astronomical researchers have collaborated to apply sophisticated image processing techniques to detect microcalcifications in mammograms.
X rays illuminate dynamics on near-atomic length scales. Eighty years after x rays were first used to determine the structures of well-ordered crystals, coherent x-ray beams are beginning to probe the atomic-scale dynamics of random distributions of matter.
Gibbons veers from nonpartisan past to attack Republican cuts in science
Pseudo-history redux: FBI clears atomic bomb physicists of spying
A new program offers expertise from business and the arts to science majors. An apparently unique formal undergraduate program at Wisconsin's Carthage College may meet the challenge of preparing science students for the real world while not taking anything away from their science education.
Chinese renege on invitations to scientific societies
IBM research secures toehold in China with new laboratory
Trieste physics center gets new director
AIP writing awards go to Taubes, Ride and O'Shaughnessy
Big government and little analysts -- Frank von Hippel
The Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies, Volumes 1 and 2, A. Sandage and J. Bedke (reviewed by S. van den Bergh)
Quantum Optics, D. F. Walls and G. J. Milburn (reviewed by W. P. Schleich)
The Observational Foundations of Physics, A. Cook (reviewed by R. Peierls)
Lectures in Particle Physics, D. Green (reviewed by A. Firestone)
Theory and Design of Charged Particle Beams, M. Reiser (reviewed by E. P. Lee)
The Music of the Heavens: Kepler's Harmonic Astronomy, B. Stephenson (reviewed by J. R. Voelkel)
Laser Spectroscopy: Techniques and Applications, E. R. Menzel (reviewed by R. N. Zare)
Group Theory and Physics, S. Sternberg (reviewed by M. E. Mayer)
Holographic Interferometry Principles and Methods, edited by P. K. Rastogi (reviewed by K. A. Stetson)
The 1994 Annual Report of the American Institute of Physics. (Link to AIP HomePage)
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