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Letters
Proponents of Colliding Cosmologies Take Exotic Turns
Search and Discovery
Bose Condensates Produce Coherent Nonlinear Behavior
The coherence of the condensate gives rise to four‐wave mixing or perhaps superradiance.
Alpha Radiation Can Damage DNA Even When It Misses the Cell Nucleus
An alpha‐particle microbeam that can precisely irradiate specific parts of cells is being used to investigate radiation‐induced genetic mutations.
Lasing Demonstrated in Tiny Cavities Made with Photonic Crystals
Researchers are moving closer to the goal of using photonic bandgap structures to make new, flexible, optical devices.
Articles
Radiation Risk and Ethics
The established worldwide practice of protecting people from radiation costs hundreds of billions of dollars a year to implement and may well determine the world's future energy system. But is it right?
Computational Materials Science: The Era of Applied Quantum Mechanics
The properties of new and artificially structured materials can be predicted and explained entirely by computations, using atomic numbers as the only input.
I. I. Rabi As Educator and Science Warrior
Rabi the educator argued passionately for science as an integral component of our culture. For Rabi the statesman, Benjamin Franklin was the figure in American history most worthy of emulation.