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Climate Shock: Abrupt Changes over Millennial Time Scales |
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How will Earth's climate respond to ongoing changes in greenhouse gases and ocean
circulation? Answers about the future might be found in the past -- Edouard Bard |
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Intergalactic Magnetic Fields |
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Magnetic fields that spread far beyond the galaxies that created them represent a significant, and only recently revealed, component of the cosmic energy budget
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Diederik Korteweg, Pioneer of Criticality |
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Korteweg's late 19th century studies of van der Waals mixtures anticipated important
work to be done in the 20th century, and the types of questions he tackled continue to
be of interest
-- Johanna Levelt Sengers and Antonius H. M. Levelt |
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Readings
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Physics Update |
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Reference Frame |
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Truth, Ownership, and Scientific Tradition -- Robert B. Laughlin |
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Letters |
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Merits of Advanced Placement Reexamined |
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Fermi Tales |
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Correction |
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Search & Discovery |
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Physics
Nobel Prize is awarded to Giacconi, Davis, and Koshiba |
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When physicists and astronomers got to look at the heavens in x rays and neutrinos, they found wondrous surprises. |
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Chemistry Nobel Laureates Helped Develop Tools to Study Large Biological Molecules |
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This year's recipients helped adapt mass spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance to the study of proteins. |
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Time-Reversed Ultrasound Beats the Diffraction Limit |
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A new technique focuses time-reversed sound onto a spot more than an order of magnitude smaller than the sound's wavelength. |
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Issues & Events |
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NSF budget doubling stalls, but increases likely |
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A last-minute procedural move stopped a Senate bill that would have doubled NSF's budget in five years. |
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Duke beams hard gamma rays,
soft x rays |
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A growing source of gamma rays at Duke has scientists eager to glean insights into nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics. At the same facility, meanwhile, energies are being edged down toward the biologically significant water window. |
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Scientists Put Their Minds to Policy and Diplomacy |
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More than 30 professional societies sponsor scientists and engineers to take their skills to Capitol Hill each year through a program run by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Physical scientists are sponsored by the American Institute of Physics and three of its member societies: the American Physical Society (APS), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the Optical Society of America. |
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Free Electron Laser Focal Point of Industrial Physics Forum |
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Cutting-edge laser science, the role of research in industry, and the use of technology to fight terrorism were some of the topics of discussion for attendees at the 2002 Industrial Physics Forum and its academic-industrial workshop, held 27-29 October in Williamsburg, Virginia. |
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News Notes |
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Keck doors opened; Super-K restarts; Venus Express will fly; New astrobiology director; ATP grants given; New NSF centers; |
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Web Watch |
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You and the Media; Learning History of Physics; Sparkling Science: Champagne |
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Opinion |
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Educating physicists for industry: The rest of the story |
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As more and more of their students move into careers outside traditional research, physics educators have been grappling with how best to provide the necessary background, skills, and experiences to promote lifelong career success.-- Kenneth C. Hass |
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Books |
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Our
Cosmic Habitat, Martin Rees (reviewed by M. S.
Turner) |
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Bioinformatics: The Machine Learning Approach, Pierre Baldi and Søren Brunak (reviewed by G. A. Stolovitzky) |
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The Lattice Boltzmann Equation for Fluid Dynamics and Beyond, Sauro Succi (reviewed by J. M. Yeomans) |
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The Glass Transition: Relaxation Dynamics in Liquids and Disordered Materials, E. Donth (reviewed by C. A. Angell) |
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Band Theory and Electronic Properties of Solids, John Singleton (reviewed by K. M. Rabe) |
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Harmonic Superspace, A. S. Galperin, E. A. Ivanov, V. I. Ogievetsky, and E. S. Sokatchev (reviewed by S. J. Gates Jr) |
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Planetary Sciences, Imke de Pater and
Jack J. Lissauer (reviewed by W. B. Hubbard) |
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New Books |
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New Products |
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Focus on Laboratory Equipment |
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We Hear That |
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DOE Honors Lawrence Award Winners |
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AAS Recognizes Achievements |
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Optical Society Presents Prizes at Annual Meeting |
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APS Announces Award Recipients |
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Netherlands Science Prize Bestowed |
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OSA Elects New Vice President |
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In Brief |
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Obituaries |
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Franco Rasetti |
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Peter Meyer |
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Richard Raymond Carlson |
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Lawrence Nathan Hadley Jr |
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Oliver
Cecil Simpson |
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