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Reference Frame

Physics Today 60 (4), 8–9 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731953

Letters

Physics Today 60 (4), 10 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731954
Physics Today 60 (4), 10–12 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731955
Physics Today 60 (4), 10 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4808473
Physics Today 60 (4), 12 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731956
Physics Today 60 (4), 12 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731957

Search and Discovery

Physics Today 60 (4), 15–18 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731958

Radiation from a modified antenna can be focused onto a spot 30 times smaller than the radiation's wavelength.

Physics Today 60 (4), 18–20 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731959

A crystal form that is unstable in isolation can be confined in tin to yield a material with unprecedented resistance to compression or extension.

Physics Today 60 (4), 20–21 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731960

By assuming compression inhibits cell division, two independent simulations account for the growth and size of a simple model organ.

Physics Update

Physics Today 60 (4), 22 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731961
Physics Today 60 (4), 22 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4796391
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Physics Today 60 (4), 22 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4796396

Issues and Events

Physics Today 60 (4), 24–26 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731962

Realizing overland supersonic flight is likely to proceed at a subsonic pace.

Physics Today 60 (4), 26–28 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731963

But DOE warns that the design team's hope for completion of the 31-kilometer-long machine by 2019 may be too optimistic.

Physics Today 60 (4), 28–30 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731964

From the 1940s through the 1980s, most physicists entering the job market snapped up positions in academia, shunning industrial posts, but that trend reversed itself by the early 1990s.

Physics Today 60 (4), 30 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731965
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Physics Today 60 (4), 34 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4796404

Articles

Physics Today 60 (4), 36–41 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731971

The discovery of strong focusing inspired Robert Wilson's ingenious idea to use mobile particle accelerators as a countermeasure against atomic weapons.

Physics Today 60 (4), 43–48 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731972

Because superfluid eddies can only be formed from quantized vortex lines, one might expect quantum turbulence to be very different from its classical counterpart. But that's not necessarily so.

Physics Today 60 (4), 50–54 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731973

Electrons confined in ultrathin metal films provide a window on the peculiar world of quantum mechanics.

Physics Today 60 (4), 56–57 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731974

Books

Physics Today 60 (4), 59 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731975
Physics Today 60 (4), 59–60 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731976
Physics Today 60 (4), 60–62 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731977
Physics Today 60 (4), 62–64 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731978
Physics Today 60 (4), 64 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731979
Physics Today 60 (4), 64–68 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731980

New Products

Physics Today 60 (4), 70–72 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731981

We Hear That

Physics Today 60 (4), 74 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731982
Physics Today 60 (4), 74 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731983
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Obituaries

In Special Collection: Print Obituaries
Physics Today 60 (4), 76–78 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731988
In Special Collection: Print Obituaries
Physics Today 60 (4), 78–79 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731989
In Special Collection: Print Obituaries
Physics Today 60 (4), 79–80 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731990

Quick Study

Physics Today 60 (4), 82–83 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731991

The well-established mathematics of probability theory notwithstanding, assessing the validity of a scientific hypothesis remains a thorny proposition.

Back Scatter

Physics Today 60 (4), 96 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731992
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