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Physics World
Volume 21 No 12
December 2008

Features

Seeing in the quantum world

Barry Sanders describes how to visualize a quantum computer

The large hadron computer

How CERN will deal with the torrent of data from the LHC

Opinion

Critical Point: Shifty constants

Robert P Crease relays your thoughts on whether nature's constants need fixing

Has Bush been good for science?

George Bush's science adviser passes verdict

Reviews

Attention, President Obama

Rob Golston offers his advice to Barack Obama

Fermilab on film

The Atom Smashers documents life in a particle physics lab at a turbulent time

The parallel lives of Einstein and Eddington

A new television programme delves into the birth of the theory of relativity

Industry

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Optical tweezers: where physics meets biology

Joost van Mameren explains how optical tweezers can unravel the mechanical properties of biological molecules

Measuring ultrashort pulses needs precision

Marie Freebody speaks to Rick Trebino about the intricacies of measuring ultrashort pulses and how the devices that characterize such pulses can be commercialized

Phoenix unlocks the icy history of Mars

Jacqueline Hewett speaks to Peter Smith, the principal investigator on NASA's Phoenix mission to Mars

Jenoptik looks to solar for future growth

Michael Mertin is the man responsible for Jenoptik's recent restructure and securing future growth. Jacqueline Hewett asks him how heavily photovoltaics features in these plans

Plasmonics propagates into new optical fields

Marie Freebody speaks to Niek van Hulst about the potential wealth of applications for plasmonics

Menlo takes frequency combs to the masses

Nadya Anscombe discovers how Nobel prize winning research has been turned into a practical product

Featured Journal Article

Fully connected network of superconducting qubits in a cavity Nov 14, 2008

Dimitris I Tsomokos et al 2008 New J. Phys. 10 113020

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Headline news

Is a new force at work in the dark sector? Dec 1, 2008 1 comment

New theory tries to explain latest dark-matter search results

Renewable energy source inspired by fish Nov 28, 2008

Device exploits vortices generated by slow-moving currents

Breakthrough in the physics of ice-shelf break-up Nov 27, 2008 2 comments

Scientists come up with simple law for iceberg formation

Hawking accepts post in Canada Nov 27, 2008 3 comments

Cosmologist is first of up to 40 new chairs at Perimeter Institute

Blog

Seeing is believing Dec 2, 2008

Good scientific visualizations can also have an educational role too...

NJP shines a light on cloaking Nov 27, 2008

'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic'...

Jobs

Marie Curie European PhD positions in Environmental Physics - Rennes, France

Posting date: Nov 28, 2008
Closing date: Sep 30, 2009
Rennes, France

Doctoral Scholarships - Heidelberg, Germany

Posting date: Oct 9, 2008
Closing date: Dec 13, 2008
Heidelberg, Germany

ATLAS/CMS Support Physicists for LHC Grid Tier 1 Computing Centre at RAL - Chilton, UK

Posting date: Dec 2, 2008
Chilton, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Professorship in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics and Director of the Hubbard Theory Institute - London, UK

Posting date: Dec 2, 2008
Closing date: Jan 30, 2009
London, United Kingdom

PhD and PostDoc research positions - Delft, Netherlands

Posting date: Dec 2, 2008
Delft, Netherlands

PhD Studentships in Cosmology and Gravitation - Portsmouth, UK

Posting date: Dec 2, 2008
Closing date: Feb 20, 2009
Portsmouth, United Kingdom