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Brownian Motors |
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Thermal motion combined with input energy gives
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microscopic systems -- R. Dean Astumian and Peter Hänggi |
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Earthquake-Volcano Interactions |
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New measurements, statistical analyses, and models support the conjecture that a large earthquake can trigger subsequent volcanic eruptions over surprisingly long distance and time scales
-- David P. Hill, Fred Pollitz, and Christopher Newhall |
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Fractional Kinetics |
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It isn't the calculus we knew: Equations built on fractional derivatives describe the anomalously slow diffusion observed in systems with a broad distribution of relaxation times
-- Igor M. Sokolov, Joseph Klafter, and Alexander Blumen |
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Physics Update |
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Reference Frame |
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Form follows function -- John J. Hopfield |
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Letters |
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Energy Issues for Vehicles: R&D, Carbon Sequestration, Fuel Conversion |
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Intelligent Design Tangles Science and Religion |
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Can GPS Test Gravity's Speed of Propagation? |
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On the Chemical Purity of Marine Microfossils |
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Heitler, Herzberg Observed that Nitrogen Nuclei Obey Bose |
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Alan Cromer Is Alive |
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Correction |
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Search & Discovery |
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Investigation Finds that One Lucent Physicist Engaged in Scientific Misconduct |
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A stunned physics community is asking whether coauthors, institutions, or referees should have caught the misdeeds at an earlier stage |
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CERN Group Detects More than 100 Antihydrogens |
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The mating of a positron to an antiproton is a significant milestone along an arduous path toward a comparison of matter with antimatter. |
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Beam Balance Helps Settle Down Measurement of the Gravitational Constant |
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In recent years, measurements of Newton's G have been disconcertingly inconsistent. Perhaps the problem is the traditional torsion balance. |
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Why Do Lobsters Change Color When Cooked? |
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Innovative crystallographic techniques help solve an intriguing scientific and culinary puzzle. |
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Germany Reviews Big Physics Projects, Triggers Furor over Spallation Source |
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TESLA and a high magnetic field lab are among the projects that got good marks in a German assessment of nine proposed physics facilities that would cost  7 billion total. The European Spallation Source did not fare so well. |
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President's Science Council Urges More Money for Physical Sciences, Engineering |
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Citing flat or decreasing federal funding since 1993 in many areas of the physical sciences and engineering, PCAST calls for funding "parity" with the life sciences. |
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Physics Papers Sold at Auction |
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Modern physics drew nearly $1.8 million at an auction on 4 October. |
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Fusion Energy Panel Urges US to Rejoin ITER |
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A burning plasma is within reach and fusion could start providing electricity in as little as 35 years, according to several fusion researchers. |
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Teaching Physics with Superheroes |
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How did Superman get to be so strong? What killed Spider-Man's girlfriend Gwen Stacy? How fast can the Flash run? Jim Kakalios, a condensed matter experimentalist and comics buff, analyzes questions like these from action comics to teach physics in a freshman seminar at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. |
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Hubble Successor Takes Shape |
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NASA, in signing a contract last month with TRW Inc to build the next-generation space telescope, has taken a big step toward peering at objects that are around 400 times fainter than are visible with current ground- or space-based telescopes. |
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Stockpile stewardship grants; UCSC adaptive optics lab; HESS gamma-ray telescope; Atomic plans return to Japan; Cuba to sign nuclear treaties; Muon spin society; New PACS®; VLT reaches milestone |
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Tanking in Kamchatka; Beyond Discovery; MentorNet |
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Crisis in physics? |
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Physics has a lot in common with the US economy: Both have flourished during the past century beyond the wildest dreams of even the most sanguine prognosticators. But even in good times, we worry about the future.-- Joseph Lykken |
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Walter Baade: A Life in Astrophysics, Donald E. Osterbrock (reviewed by Norriss S. Hetherington) |
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Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship, George Dyson (reviewed by Arthur Kantrowitz) |
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Atom Optics, Pierre Meystre (reviewed by Vladilen Letokhov) |
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Extreme Stars: At the Edge of Creation, James B. Kaler (reviewed by Andrei Gruzinov) |
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Fundamentals of Quantum Chemistry: Molecular Spectroscopy and Modern Electronic Structure Computations, Michael R. Mueller (reviewed by Donald G. Truhlar) |
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Inviscid Incompressible Flow, Jeffrey S. Marshall (reviewed by Ömer Savas) |
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We Hear That |
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MacArthur Fellows Announced for 2002 |
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Balzan Foundation Gives Prize in Geology |
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Rubin Wins Cosmology Prize |
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IOP Announces Award Winners for 2002 |
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Cohen Is APS Vice President for 2003 |
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In Brief |
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Obituaries |
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Sheldon Datz |
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Harold Ralph Lewis |
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Charles Maisonnier |
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Adrian Nicolae Patrascioiu |
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Donald Keith Stevens |
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