Physics

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Fast Company September 2006 Tracy Staedter	Good Vibrations Take a step, and you generate 6 to 8 watts of energy -- which then dissipates into thin air. But now an architectural firm in London is looking at ways to capture that energy on a mass scale and turn it into electricity.
IEEE Spectrum September 2006 J R Minkel	A Tabletop UV Microscope With the recent demonstration of a high-resolution ultraviolet microscope that fits on a tabletop, semiconductor manufacturing and basic science researchers alike may soon have a far easier time getting the images they need.
Wired September 2006 Adam Rogers	Physics Wars String theory was supposed to reconcile the subatomic world with the vast reaches of spacetime. Now Lee Smolin wants to unravel it.
Chemistry World August 30, 2006 Tom Westgate	Lasers Shed Light on Magnetic Resonance A new way of measuring nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in liquid samples could have implications across spectroscopy and imaging, report researchers.
Chemistry World August 23, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Laser Light Cast on Quantum Evolution Researchers have demonstrated for the first time why a technique called coherent control is able to break molecular bonds selectively using finely-tuned pulses of laser light.
Scientific American September 2006 George Johnson	The Inelegant Universe Two new books argue that it is time for string theory to give way: The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin... Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter Woit...
Geotimes August 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Todd Hoeksema: A Flare for All Things Solar The researcher at the Wilcox Solar Observatory at Stanford University in California helped NASA create a new "roadmap" for future solar physics research.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 JR Minkel	A Smashing Bad Time For the United States "In decay" might well describe the state of experimental particle physics in the United States, if the country doesn't make a strong push in coming years to host the world's next big particle smasher.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Alexander Hellemans	Engineering Warms To Frozen Light Separate groups in the U.S. and Europe say that they have built and successfully tested more compact, rugged, and efficient means of delaying light pulses. Their work may clear the way for applications in optical switching and quantum communications.
Scientific American July 31, 2006 Mark Alpert	The Neutrino Frontier Scientists are fascinated by neutrino oscillations because they may reveal phenomena that cannot be explained by the Standard Model, the highly successful but incomplete theory of particle physics.
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