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Physics Today 59 (4), 9 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207009
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Physics Today 59 (4), 9 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4797370
Physics Today 59 (4), 9 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4797371

Letters

Physics Today 59 (4), 10 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207014
Physics Today 59 (4), 10 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4797355
Physics Today 59 (4), 10 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4797356
Physics Today 59 (4), 10–12 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4797357
Physics Today 59 (4), 12 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4797358
Physics Today 59 (4), 12 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4797359
Physics Today 59 (4), 12 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4797360
Physics Today 59 (4), 12–13 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4797361
Physics Today 59 (4), 13–15 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4797362
Physics Today 59 (4), 15–16 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4797363
Physics Today 59 (4), 16 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207024
Physics Today 59 (4), 16 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4797364

Search and Discovery

Physics Today 59 (4), 18–19 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207026

Long-predicted three-atom states form fleetingly when an external magnetic field is tuned to the right resonance.

Physics Today 59 (4), 20–22 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207027

Overfishing has devastated the oceans’ stock of fish. Backscattered echoes of low-frequency signals may provide an accurate census of that stock.

Physics Today 59 (4), 22–25 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207028

Earth-like planets halfway across the galaxy can disclose themselves by bending light from background stars.

Physics Today 59 (4), 26–28 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207029

A shift in the pattern of ocean currents might signal a long-term trend, or it might simply reflect large, natural fluctuations.

Issues and Events

Physics Today 59 (4), 30–32 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207030

Thebe Medupe, a rising star in South Africa’s astronomy community, hopes his work will attract other young blacks into science and technology.

Physics Today 59 (4), 32–33 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207031

Once a discrepancy between experiments disappears, the definitions of the kilogram and three other units will be updated to keep pace with scientific measurement capabilities.

Physics Today 59 (4), 34 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207032
Physics Today 59 (4), 34 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207033
Physics Today 59 (4), 34–35 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207034
Physics Today 59 (4), 35 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207035
Physics Today 59 (4), 35 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4797365
Physics Today 59 (4), 35 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4797366
Physics Today 59 (4), 36–41 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207036

Years of relatively flat or declining funding for many of the physical sciences are being reversed in the administration’s budget proposal, but the continuing high cost of the war in Iraq, the war on terrorism, and the growing deficit mean the boon for the physical sciences is not new money but funds being transferred from other science programs.

Articles

Physics Today 59 (4), 43–49 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207037

Turbulent flows, with their irregular behavior, confound any simple attempts to understand them. But physicists have succeeded in identifying some universal properties of turbulence and relating them to broken symmetries.

Physics Today 59 (4), 50–56 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207038

A series of papers published between 1916 and 1923 broke new ground in materials research and laid the foundation for modern studies of planetary interiors.

Physics Today 59 (4), 57–62 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207039

During World War I, this university town in neutral Holland was, for Einstein, a respite from the abhorrent chauvinism of German academia. Leiden was also the home of his father figure Hendrik Lorentz and of his dear and tragic friend Paul Ehrenfest.

Opinion

Physics Today 59 (4), 64–65 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207040

Books

Physics Today 59 (4), 67 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207041
Physics Today 59 (4), 67–68 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207042
Physics Today 59 (4), 68–70 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207043
Physics Today 59 (4), 70–72 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207044
Physics Today 59 (4), 72–73 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207045
Physics Today 59 (4), 73–77 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2405535

New Products

Physics Today 59 (4), 78–79 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2405536

We Hear That

Physics Today 59 (4), 81 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207046
Physics Today 59 (4), 81–82 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207047
Physics Today 59 (4), 82 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207048
Physics Today 59 (4), 82–83 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207049
Physics Today 59 (4), 83–84 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207050
Physics Today 59 (4), 84 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207051
Physics Today 59 (4), 84 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207052
Physics Today 59 (4), 84 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207053

Obituaries

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Physics Today 59 (4), 85–86 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207054
In Special Collection: Print Obituaries
Physics Today 59 (4), 86 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207055
In Special Collection: Print Obituaries
Physics Today 59 (4), 88 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207056
In Special Collection: Print Obituaries
Physics Today 59 (4), 88–89 (2006); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207057
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