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Annular Modes and Climate Prediction |
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Links between stratospheric wind patterns and ground-based climate offer hope of improved long-range weather forecasting and provide a possible explanation for some conspicuous climate trends of the past few decades -- John M. Wallace and David W. J. Thompson |
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Large Extra Dimensions: A New Arena for Particle Physics |
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The electroweak unification energy may be the only fundamental scale in nature. If so, new dimensions, black holes, quantum gravity, and string theory will become experimentally accessible in this decade -- Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, and Georgi Dvali |
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The Grid: A New Infrastructure for 21st Century Science |
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As computer networks become cheaper and more powerful, a new computing paradigm is poised to transform the practice of science and engineering -- Ian Foster |
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Readings from the Physics
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Physics Update |
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Reference Frame |
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Models, morals, and metaphors -- Leo P. Kadanoff |
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Letters |
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Physics First: Of Insight, Pool Balls, Stasis, and the Scientist in the Crib |
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Physics First: Of Insight, Pool Balls, Stasis, and the Scientist in the Crib - Lederman Reply |
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An Earlier Bar to Rescaling Units |
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Is The Universe's Expansion Accelerating? |
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A Moment of Gravity |
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Search & Discovery |
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Magnetism and Superconductivity Fight for Control in High-Tc Superconductors |
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Researchers interested in exploring the competition between forces that pair electrons and those that align the atomic spins have found it useful to look at the area around magnetic flux lines threading through the material. |
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Ultrashort Laser Pulses Can Control X-Ray Switch |
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The ability to direct pulses of x-ray synchrotron radiation using femtosecond lasers may open a new avenue for time-resolved x-ray studies. |
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Correcting a Correction Weakens a Whiff of Supersymmetry |
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Since the mid-1980s, Kinoshita and various colleagues have been laboring to calculate the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (am) from the standard model of particle theory with ever greater precision. |
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Issues & Events |
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Astronomers Envision Linking World Data Archives |
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Virtual observatories could change the sociology of astronomy. But to bring them about, financial, political, technical, and sociological challenges must first be met. |
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Federal R&D Tops $103 Billion, but Physics Stays Flat |
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Four years of federal budget surpluses are giving way to deficit spending, thanks in large part to terrorists, war, and recession. As the unanticipated spending began late in the budget process, overall science appropriations increased significantly. |
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Marburger Focuses on War against Terrorism |
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When John Marburger became the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on 23 October, his appointment was greeted with both enthusiasm and skepticism in the science community. |
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UK Joins ESO |
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After dragging its feet for years, the UK is joining the European Southern Observatory in July. The move will give the country's astronomers access to the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and ESO's other facilities in Chile. |
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Tarter to Leave Livermore's Top Job |
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"The budget is roughly through Congress. The National Ignition Facility [NIF] is back on track. The lab is in good shape," says C. Bruce Tarter, explaining his decision to step down as director of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as soon as a successor is found. |
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News Notes |
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Orbach named to DOE science; Enhancing the VLA |
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Web Watch |
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BBSO Active Region Monitor; Complexity Digest; Bad Physics |
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Books |
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Electrodynamics from Ampère to Einstein, Olivier Darrigol
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Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin (reviewed by
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Physics
for Radiation Protection, James E. Martin (reviewed
by James A. Deye) |
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Nine Crazy Ideas in Science: A Few Might Even Be True, Robert Ehrlich (reviewed by William H. Ingham) |
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New Books |
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New Products |
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We Hear That |
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Manin, Shor Win King Faisal Prize |
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APS to Present Awards at March Meeting |
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AAPT Elects New Vice President |
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Russel Chosen to Head SoR |
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In Brief |
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Obituaries |
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Ralph P. Shutt |
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Fred David Rosi |
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Job
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