OSA meeting information on-lineContinuing the lunar orbit's 300-year role as gravity's testing ground, laser ranging to the Moon precisely confirms the foundations and structure of general relativity -- Kenneth Nordtvedt
Having met at a Solvay conference in 1933, the discoverer of the neutron and the inventor of the cyclotron carried on a lively correspondence in the late 1930s. The next time they met was in 1943, on the Manhattan Project -- Andrew P. Brown
Low-dimensional metals with moving lattice modulations display a host of unusual properties, including gigantic dielectric constants and the ability to "remember" electrical pulse lengths -- Robert E. Thorne
Livermore's big guns produce liquid metallic hydrogen. Metallic hydrogen has been a major goal for several generations of physicists. Now evidence suggests that this lightest of metals has been realized, but in an unexpected form.
Measuring distances to more supernovae sharpens the Hubble constant debate. Measuring the Hubble constant with supernovae continues to suggest an older universe than one gets with other yardsticks.
Model sheds light on a tragedy and a new type of eruption. Ten years after a natural disaster in Cameroon killed 1746 people, a new model adds support to the hypothesis that the culprit was a previously unknown type of nonvolcanic eruption.
Researchers vie to achieve a quantum-dot laser. Believing that less is more, many researchers are trying to create quantum-dot, or zero-dimensional, lasers.
Anaheim to be the setting for the 1996 convocation of CLEO/QELS
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The explosive! action-packed! fantastic! physics of computer games
Clinton's 1997 budget proposes small R&D gains and promises to start more battles on Capitol Hill
LHC "back on track" as DOE proposes to ante up $400 million to $500 million
Physics enrollments continue to fall
Molina donates Nobel money for global research
Amelio, a physicist, takes the reins at Apple
Linus Pauling: A Life in Science and Politics, T. Goertzel and B. Goertzel;
Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling, T. Hager;
Linus Pauling in His Own Words: Selected Writings, Speeches, and Interviews, edited by B. Marinacci (reviewed by D. A. Davenport)
Gender Differences in Science Careers: The Project Access Study, G. Sonnert and G. Holton;
Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender Dimension, G. Sonnert and G. Holton (reviewed by V. Kistiakowsky)
Statistical Thermodynamics of Surfaces, Interfaces, and Membranes, S. A. Safran (reviewed by M. Schick)
Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics, L. Mandel and E. Wolf (reviewed by J. H. Shapiro)
Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Systems, S. Datta (reviewed by H. van Houten)
The Solar-Terrestrial Environment, J. K. Hargreaves (reviewed by G. L. Siscoe)
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