Physics

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Chemistry World January 26, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	'Ultimate Microscope' in Sight Scientists have announced a breakthrough in x-ray microscopy which could be used to picture individual atoms in living cells without using a lens.
Popular Mechanics February 2007 Jy Murphy	Z Machine: A Particle Accelerator Hotter than the Sun With arcs of current from an electromagnetic pulse crisscrossing metal structures, this extreme machine can melt crystallized stone and unlock some more cosmic mysteries.
Chemistry World January 22, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	First Synchrotron for Neutral Molecules Scientists have built and demonstrated the first synchrotron to work on neutral molecules. It could be used to study collisions of cold, slow-moving molecules, allowing chemists to probe their behavior with a resolution impossible to achieve at higher temperatures.
Chemistry World January 17, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Molecular Magnets of Mystery Researchers have discovered a new class of molecular magnets which work above room temperature. But why the magnets work, and what their structures are, remains a perplexing mystery.
Scientific American February 2007 Karen A. Frenkel	Why Aren't More Women Physicists? These two books look for answers in the lives of a few who succeeded: La Dame D'Esprit, A Biography of the Marquise Du Chatelet and Out of the Shadows, Contributions of the Twentieth-Century Women to Physics.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Samuel K. Moore	You Tell Us: Electron Beams Zap Oil to Pump More Petrol Cold cracking uses beams of high-energy electrons to transform the thick parts of crude oil into oils, gasoline, and other petroleum products thin enough to pump through a pipeline. The question is whether a conservative, capital-intensive oil industry will buy the idea.
Chemistry World January 3, 2007 Victoria Gill	Alzheimer's Protein Fingerprint Alzheimer's disease, a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder that eventually results in wasting of the whole brain, offers a chemical clue that should make it easier to spot and possibly easier to treat.
Geotimes January 2007 Nicole Branan	Heat Flow Causes Magnetic Reversals Earth's magnetic field has done hundreds of somersaults over the last few billion years. A new study sheds some light on what causes the geomagnetic field to flip.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Elizabeth Svoboda	Fresh Spin On Logic In the last few years, a new type of memory has begun to penetrate the market for nonvolatile data storage. In addition to being much faster, spintronics processors could be much smaller than present-day processors.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Stephen Cass	Thread-Bare Theories An interview with string-theory critic Lee Smolin about the challenges facing physics.
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