Physics

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Chemistry World February 10, 2006 Jon Evans	Medical Future for Tiny Quantum Dots U.S. researchers have crossed a milestone in biological imaging by developing quantum dots small enough to pass from the blood stream into bodily tissue.
Chemistry World February 9, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Silicon Conducts an Electrical Surprise Silicon can conduct electricity when experts assumed it couldn't, sparking a surprising direction in silicon electronics.
Chemistry World February 6, 2006 Jon Evans	Head-to-Tail Monomers Improve Solar Cell Efficiency A team of researchers found that the P3HT polymer chains stacked together more tightly in high RR films, which made them absorb more light and let electrons travel more easily through them.
Geotimes February 2006 Naomi Lubick	Margaret Kivelson: Magnetically Minded The scientific community cites this geophysicist's contributions to space science with regard to the magnetic fields of Jupiter and its moons, in addition to Earth's, and her efforts to encourage women in science.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006	Liquid-Crystal Kaleidoscope The stuff of liquid-crystal displays looks different up close: This image finished 18th out of 1700 in a recent photo competition that awarded prizes for images make through microscopes.
Science News December 2005 Julie Ann Miller	Gerald F. Tape (1915-2005) This physicist during World War II became a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee and the chair of the CIA's Nuclear Intelligence Panel.
Reason December 2005 Jeese Walker	Weird Science In 2004 the U.S. Air Force released a report on the feasibility of teleportation. The average reader might suspect the Pentagon could have gotten more for its money by buying a dozen hammers, but a few analysts have stepped up to defend the project.
Reactive Reports November 2005 David Bradley	Water, Water How a strand of water just a few molecules thick could provide nanoscale clues about water's intriguing properties and why water is the dread enemy of atomic force microscopy.
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 William Sweet	The Atomic Energy Agency's Peace Prize The conferral in October of the Nobel Peace Prize on the International Atomic Energy Agency and its current director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, is noteworthy on several scores.
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Justin Mullins	Long Shot It sounds too good to be true: high-quality flat lenses that focus light and can be made in sheets and cut to size. That's the promise of a new class of materials with a negative refractive index that bend light in the opposite direction from conventional materials.
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