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Published:Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST
Last Revised: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST
- Physics in China
SummaryIn its range and depth, physics in China is much like physics in other big, technologically advanced countries. The historical, political, and social contexts, however, are China’s own.
Hide summary - Universal Insights from Few-Body Land
SummaryThe ability to tune atomic interactions has inspired theorists and experimentalists to investigate those properties of few-particle systems that hold universally, regardless of the specific nature of the interparticle force
Hide summary - Ultracold neutral plasmas
SummaryBy ionizing cold atoms or molecules with a laser, researchers get a glimpse of one of nature’s extreme regimes, in which many usual rules and approximations no longer apply
Hide summary - A complex symmetry emerges at the quantum critical point of an Ising-spin chain
SummaryThe relation between the E₈ Lie group and the mass excitations in the Ising model was predicted more than 20 years ago, but seeing it is an experimental coup.
Hide summary - Diffraction around the head makes hearers mislocate sound sources
SummaryWhen light is obstructed by a small sphere, diffraction creates a bright spot at the center of the sphere’s shadow. Psychoacousticians are studying the acoustic analogue of that bright spot.
Hide summary - Holograms tie optical vortices in knots
SummaryUsing techniques from mathematics and optical wavefront engineering, researchers demonstrate that lines of zero intensity in a light beam can be shaped into links and loops of arbitrary topology.
Hide summary - Model sheds light on the language of color
SummaryThe process by which human societies collectively decide which segments of the visible spectrum get their own names can be studied by computer simulation.
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Hide summary - New neutron source aims to be top in energy and environmental stewardship
SummaryFrom windmills to green roofs, the European Spallation Source may be setting a trend for major scientific facilities.
Hide summary - A voice for Africa's physicists
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Hide summary - Roundtable participants find near-consensus on free access to results of publicly funded research
SummaryPublishers and subscribers urge agencies to freely distribute scientific journal articles based on federally sponsored research.
Hide summary - ArXiv survival tied to new funding model
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Hide summary - Government handling of helium gets report card: Think again
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Hide summary - Science Board details China’s leap in science and technology
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Hide summary - Web watch
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Hide summary - London bridge’s wobble and sway
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Hide summary - Frame dragging on flybys
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Hide summary - Carbon from coal plants
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Hide summary - Electrostatic trick might affect human body
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Hide summary - Inspired by a century of physics
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Hide summary - Human discoveries predated by nature
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Hide summary - Costs of raising the bar for medical physicists
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Hide summary - Spatial coherence from ducks
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Hide summary - Introduction to Modern Traffic Flow Theory and Control: The Long Road to Three-Phase Traffic Theory
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Hide summary - Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science, Mind and Nature: Selected Writings on Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics
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Hide summary - Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics: Basic Theory and Advanced Methods
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Hide summary - Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Brightest Explosions in the Universe
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Hide summary - New books
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Hide summary - Focus on test and measurements
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Hide summary - Frank James Low
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Hide summary - Slow Antihydrogen
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Hide summary - A new VISTA on the southern sky
Summary95.55.Fw, 98.38.Hv, 98.38.Jw
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