NSF's Tokyo office Asian Office of the Office of Naval Research Science and Technology Agency of Japan, with a translation of the Science and Technology Basic Plan
-- Gloria B. Lubkin
The information revolution that the ENIAC heralded 50 years ago has profoundly changed the ways in which physicists---along with society in general---work and interact -- Alfred E. Brenner
Although the AEC laboratories are renowned for the development of nuclear weapons, their largess in promoting scientific computing also had a profound effect on scientific and technological development in the second half of the 20th century -- Robert W. Seidel
Steady advances in supercomputing hardware and numerical algorithms are beginning to shed light on some of the most recalcitrant problems in astrophysics and cosmology -- Michael L. Norman
Although computers will be essential in coping with the petabytes of data generated each year by next-generation particle physics experiments, perhaps their greatest role will be coordinating the efforts of truly global collaborations of over a thousand researchers -- Joel N. Butler and David R. Quarrie
Theorists take steps toward understanding ladder compounds. Theorists toying with a simple model of copper and oxygen atoms joined in a ladder-like structure have predicted some behavior that has been seen in real ladder-like compounds. Will their prediction of superconductivity also hold?
Stars and stripes in manganese oxide
Galileo reveals the light and dark sides of Ganymede
Presidential candidates asked about science: One responds and two don't
Japan unveils ambitious plan for science and technology, with large boost in R&D spending. The Japanese government seems committed to overhauling the country's R&D system. Will the plan work?
NSF's Tokyo office
Asian Office of the Office of Naval Research
Science and Technology Agency of Japan, with a translation of the Science and Technology Basic Plan
Caltech hands its solar observatories to NJIT. A changing of the guards is occurring in ground-based solar physics: While some university programs are on the wane, others are stepping in to fill the gaps.
Meanwhile, at Mees Solar Observatory...
UK research council supports part-time PhD work
APS E-print Server is now on-line
The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner, Part A: Scientific Papers (Vols. I, II, V), Part B: Historical, Philosophical and Socio-Political Papers (Vol. VI), edited by A. Wightman, A. M. Weinberg and J. Mehra (reviewed by S. S. Schweber)
Health Effects of Exposure to Low-Level Ionizing Radiation, edited by W. R. Hendee and F. M. Edwards (reviewed by D. Bodansky)
Julian Schwinger: The Physicist, the Teacher and the Man, edited by Y. J. Ng (reviewed by S. Treiman)
Supernovae and Nucleosynthesis: An Investigation of the History of Matter, from the Big Bang to the Present, D. Arnett (reviewed by R. A. Chevalier)
Gravity's Fatal Attraction: Black Holes in the Universe, M. Begelman and M. Rees (reviewed by S. L. Shapiro)
Broken Symmetry: Selected Papers of Y. Nambu, edited by T. Eguchi and K. Nishijima (reviewed by R. Jackiw)
Introduction to Superconductivity, M. Tinkham (reviewed by V. Emery)
Introduction to Molecular Dynamics and Chemical Kinetics, G. D. Billing and K. V. Mikkelsen (reviewed by D.G. Truhlar)
Photothermal Spectroscopy Methods for Chemical Analysis, S. E. Bialkowski (reviewed by A. Mandelis)
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Tulane's citation-based physics rankings (mentioned in Letters).
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