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July 20/27, 2009
STORIES ELSEWHERE
Story about the Physical Review Letters paper Interfacial Jetting Phenomena Induced by Focused Surface Vibrations:
Squirting Water without a Gun, Physical Review Focus
Story about the Science paper Quantum Walk in Position Space with Single Optically Trapped Atoms:
Cesium atoms are able to take a "quantum walk", Ars Technica
Stories about the Nature Photonics paper Tunable bipolar optical interactions between guided lightwaves:
Flipping a nanoswitch with light, Ars Technica
Light Repels Light, Technology Review
Story about the Siggraph 2009 paper Dark Flash Photography:
Invisible flash takes photos without the glare, New Scientist
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WATCH January 14, 2009 Citizen science in the age of connectedness A nice column in the New York Times by biologist Aaron E. Hirsh explains the rise of Big Science — massive, centralized projects with large staffs and expensive equipment — and the emerging trend of distributed citizen science. [more] |
| "Physics
is to the rest of science what machine tools are to engineering. A
corollary is that science places power in our hands which can be used
for good or ill. Technology has been abused in this way throughout
the ages from gunpowder to atomic bombs." - John Pendry, Imperial College London |
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