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Physics World
Volume 21 No 5
May 2008

Features

GLAST goes for blast-off

NASA's gamma-ray mission could shed light on some of nature's most extreme astrophysical processes

The search for astroengineers

Could looking for "Dyson spheres" be a productive way of searching for extraterrestrial life?

Opinion

Embargoed science

Embargoes may have their faults but they mask wider problems in science communication

Critical Point: The Bohr paradox

Robert P Crease explains why Niels Bohr's towering role in the history of physics can be difficult to appreciate

The social physicist

Sid Redner ponders the effects of zealots and vacillators

Reviews

Mission impossible

Gordon Fraser examines media-darling Michio Kaku's views on the physics of the impossible

Blog life: Star Stryder

Pamela Gay on life as an astronomer and science communicator

Risky business

What is wrong with financial risk management today

Industry

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The 'Measurement Fair' returns to Nuremberg

Sensor + Test 2008 will offer hands-on demonstrations of the latest test and measurement technologies

From GaAs diodes to fibre Bragg gratings

Lake Shore Cryotronics celebrates 40 years making cryogenic and magnetic instrumentation

SQUID maker sets its sights on X-ray detection

Magnetic sensors boost elemental analysis

The terahertz revolution

Measurement applications for terahertz radiation are "endless"

Fibre sensor secures optical networks and pipelines

Fibre-optic acoustic sensor can detect footsteps up to 10 m away.

Featured Journal Article

How to fix a broken symmetry: quantum dynamics of symmetry restoration in a ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate Apr 30, 2008

Bogdan Damski et al 2008 New J. Phys. 10 045023

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Headline news

Einstein letter fetches record amount at auction May 16, 2008

‘Private buyer with a passion for theoretical physics’ bids £170,000

Eccentric pulsar could be part of a threesome May 15, 2008

Mysterious binary system defies explanation

Shrimp see a polarized world May 14, 2008

Biophysics experiment reveals how shrimp could find food and mates using circularly polarized light

Ozone could clean up biological-warfare agents May 13, 2008

Acidifying water increases the lifetime of ozone so that it can be used for hours

Blog

Canadian firm shelves isotope reactors May 16, 2008

The sad saga of the MAPLE nuclear reactors may have finally come to a close...

The dusty cosmos May 16, 2008

Astrophysicists have a better idea of how dust obscures the light from galaxies...

Jobs

PhD in Magnetic nanowires for trapping laser-cooled atoms - Sheffield, UK

Posting date: May 16, 2008
Sheffield, United Kingdom

Research Scientist/Higher Research Scientist - Teddington, UK

Posting date: May 15, 2008
Teddington, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Optical Higher Research Scientist - Quantum Cryptography and Few Photon Research - Teddington, Middlesex

Posting date: May 15, 2008
Closing date: May 23, 2008
United Kingdom

PhD student (M/F) - Campus Limpertsberg, Luxembourg

Posting date: May 13, 2008
Closing date: May 31, 2008
Campus Limpertsberg, Luxembourg

Research Scientists and Engineers - Optical Systems - Oxford, UK

Posting date: May 2, 2008
Oxford, United Kingdom

Professorship in Experimental Optical Quantum Electronics - Lund, Sweden

Posting date: Apr 23, 2008
Closing date: May 27, 2008
Sweden