Issues
Physics Update
Letters
Magnetic Fields Are Getting Higher on Research Lab Agendas
Search and Discovery
Theorists Take Steps Toward Understanding Ladder Compounds
Theorists toying with a simple model of copper and oxygen atoms joined in a ladder‐like structure have predicted some behavior that has been seen in real ladder‐like compounds. Will their prediction of superconductivity also hold?
Articles
The Computing Revolution and the Physics Community
The information revolution that the ENIAC heralded 50 years ago has profoundly changed the ways in which physicists—along with society in general—work and interact.
From Mars to Minerva: The Origins of Scientific Computing in the AEC Labs
Although the AEC laboratories are renowned for the development of nuclear weapons, their largess in promoting scientific computing also had a profound effect on scientific and technological development in the second half of the 20th century.
Probing Cosmic Mysteries by Supercomputer
Steady advances in supercomputing hardware and numerical algorithms are beginning to shed light on some of the most recalcitrant problems in astrophysics and cosmology
Data Acquisition and Analysis in Extremely High Data Rate Experiments
Although computers will be essential in coping with the petabytes of data generated each year by next‐generation particle physics experiments, perhaps their greatest role will be coordinating the efforts of truly global collaborations of over a thousand researchers.
