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- The larger world of nano
Research in the social sciences and humanities can help scientists and policymakersto better understand the nanotechnology enterprise and to make it more transparentto an enthusiastic but cautious public
- When fermions become bosons: Pairing in ultracold gases
The unprecedented control over interactions and pairing in ultracold fermionicatoms provides insight into exotic strongly correlated phenomena and illuminates thephysics of superfluidity in metals, nuclei, and neutron stars
- A fifth force farce
Adecade before Alan Sokal’s famous hoax was published in Social Text, a thinlyveiled spoof was submitted to Physical Review Letters. But in that case the editorsgave as good as they got
- Conductive elastic polymers form the basis for organic skinlike electronics
When carbon nanotubes are finely dispersed in a compatible copolymer,the material’s conductivity exceeds that of any other elastomer by twoorders of magnitude.
- Study tracks the changes in a vision protein as fish evolved
In at least one respect, adhesives always behave as either viscous liquids or elastic solids,and the boundary between the two regimes is sharp.
- Experiment probes pattern formation during debonding of viscoelastic adhesives
- Physics update
- US falters on commitments to international science projects
- Petawatt laser probes nature at Texas university
- India revives neutrino research
- One man, one hundred meetings, and a physics subfield
- Recalibrating research at Motorola
- The bell tolls for Bell Labs
- News notes
- Web watch
- Special report: Science issues are prominent in this year’s presidential race
Barack Obama responds to the quadrennial PHYSICS TODAY questionnaire on science policy matters; John McCain declines invitations to participate.
- Teaching about fluids
- Variations on Sun’s role in climate change
- Constraining potential bomb builders
- An Introduction to the Physics of Interstellar Dust
- Yoshio Nishina: Father of Modern Physics in Japan
- Elements of String Cosmology,
- Rotation and Accretion Powered Pulsars
- Functional Integration: Action and Symmetries
- New books
- Focus on vacuum and cryogenics
- Henry Ellis Bass
- Dragonfly flight
- Photonic fabric
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