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Magnesium Diboride: Better Late Than Never |
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With a superconducting transition temperature of 40 K and two superconducting gaps, MgB2 is full of surprises for both experimentalists and theorists -- Paul C. Canfield and George W. Crabtree |
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Rosalind Franklin and the Double Helix |
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Although she made essential contributions toward elucidating the structure of DNA, Rosalind Franklin is known to many only as seen through the distorting lens of James Watson's book, The Double Helix -- Lynne Osman Elkin |
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Low-Energy Electron Microscopy: Imaging Surface Dynamics |
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Flexibility and time resolution make LEEM a powerful tool for studying mesoscale phenomena--from surface diffusion to magnetization -- Raymond J. Phaneuf and Andreas K. Schmid |
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Physics Update |
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Letters |
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Goethe and Land Provoke Colorful Comments |
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Workshops Work for High-School Physics Teachers |
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Funding and Operating University Reactors |
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Models for Gamma-Ray Bursts |
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Beautiful, Interesting Quaternions Are Valuable for Rigid Bodies |
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Another Fermi Tale |
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Correction |
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Search & Discovery |
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Antineutrinos From Distant Reactors Simulate the Disappearance of Solar Neutrinos |
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First results from the Kamland detector in Japan home in on the parameters of solar-neutrino flavor oscillation. |
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X-ray Observations Deepen Mystery of What Happens in the Cores of Galaxy Clusters |
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Simple physics says huge amounts of gas in cluster cores should cool and collapse. Simple physics is wrong--but why? |
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Laser Technique Follows Turbulent Flow in Three Dimensions |
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Making movies of stirred-up beads illuminates the baffling problem of turbulence. |
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Issues & Events |
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Overlapping Federal Budgets Confuse the FY 2004 R&D Funding Picture |
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Defense programs and physical sciences see increases in the administration's fiscal year 2004 budget proposal, but much of the rest of science funding is flat or down. |
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US Plans to Rejoin ITER Collaboration |
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President Bush, heeding recommendations from the fusion science community, the National Research Council (NRC), and the Department of Energy (DOE), authorized the US to rejoin the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project. |
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L'Oréal and UNESCO Award Women Physicists $500 000 |
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Not just cosmetic: L'Oréal and UNESCO are rewarding five women from around the globe for their scientific contributions in crystallography, disordered materials, scaling laws of fluids and complex systems, and electron microscopy of crystals and quasicrystals. |
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MacArthur Pumps Funds Into Science Policy Positions |
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Next month sees the launch of the greatest expansion of faculty positions for science, technology, and security policy since the end of the cold war. |
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Europe's Comet Mission Delayed |
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Minutes after it took off on 11 December from Kourou, French Guiana, the Ariane 5 rocket plunged into the Atlantic Ocean with two telecommunications satellites on board. The mishap means the European Space Agency's ambitious comet probe, Rosetta, will be delayed--and must find a new target. |
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ITER Leader to Head CERN |
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Given the good impression Robert Aymar made last year as chair of an external review committee for CERN, it's no surprise he's been named director general of the European particle physics lab. |
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Chaudhari to Head Brookhaven |
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Praveen Chaudhari, a longtime scientist and manager at IBM, has been named as the new director of Brookhaven National Laboratory. |
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Canberra Fire Destroys Observatory |
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The bush fires, which ravaged more than 1050 km2 of land, destroyed the observatory's three domes, six telescopes, equipment workshops, eight staff houses, and an administration building. |
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Two Radio Telescopes Get New Directors |
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On 1 January, Richard Schilizzi took the reins as inaugural director of the SKA. And on 5 May, Robert L. Brown will take the helm of the Cornell University-run National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center. |
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Stanford Lures Blandford, Kahn; Official SESAME; LANL oversight board |
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Web watch |
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Double Helix Seaman's Scarf; George Green Society; Division of Science Resources Statistics |
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Opinion |
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Integrity in Industrial Research |
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Books |
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The Questions of Tenure, Edited by Richard P. Chait (reviewed by David Seligman) |
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Hydrogen: The Essential Element, John S. Rigden (reviewed by William Happer) |
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Higher-Order Numerical Methods for Transient Wave Equations, Gary C. Cohen (reviewed by George Em Karniadakis) |
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Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks, Mark Buchanan (reviewed by Maximino Aldana-Gonzalez) |
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Linked: The New Science of Networks, Albert-László Barabási (reviewed by Maximino Aldana-Gonzalez) |
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Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II, Jennet Conant (reviewed by Britton Chance) |
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the Frontier of Particle Physics: Handbook of QCD, Edited by M. Shifman (reviewed by George Sterman) |
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New Products |
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Focus on Spectroscopy |
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We Hear That |
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Winners Named for Wolf Prizes in Physics and Mathematics |
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APS to Present Awards at April Meeting |
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Geophysics Researchers Honored by AGU |
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National Academy Honors Achievements |
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AIP Presents Science Writing Awards |
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Two Win King Faisal Science Prize |
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Holonyak to Receive Top IEEE Medal |
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In Brief |
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Obituaries |
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George Porter |
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Edsger Wybe Dijkstra |
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Robert Edmund Apfel |
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Karl Leslie Brown |
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Philip Gerald Drazin |
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Felix Marc Hermann Villars |
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