Physics today

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  Año 2015, Vol. 68, Número 9

  • SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

    • Liquid deuterium pressured into becoming metallic

      Sung Chang

      • Resumen

      pág. 12

      

    • Imaging a mouse’s brain through its skull

      R. Mark Wilson

      • Resumen

      pág. 14

      

    • Powerful lasers mimic intergalactic plasmas in the lab

      Johanna L. Miller

      • Resumen

      pág. 16

      

  • ISSUES AND EVENTS

    • Advanced gravitational-wave detectors open their ears

      Toni Feder

      • Resumen

      pág. 20

      

    • How many asteroids are out there, exactly?

      David Kramer

      • Resumen

      pág. 22

      

    • Physics whiz kids converge in India

      Toni Feder

      pág. 24

      

    • Mechanical metamaterials roll off the 3D printing press

      Jermey N. A. Matthews

      • Resumen

      pág. 26

      

    • Spotting coincidences in astronomical signals

      Toni Feder

      pág. 27

      

  • ARTICLES

    • Information: From Maxwell’s demon to Landauer’s eraser

      Eric Lutz, Sergio Ciliberto

      • Resumen

      pág. 30

      

    • Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles

      Marco Bettinelli, Luís D. Carlos, Xiaogang Liu

      • Resumen

      pág. 38

      

    • Climate change impacts: the growth of understanding

      Spencer Weart

      • Resumen

      pág. 46

      

  • BOOKS

    • The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity

      Adam Lidz

      Es reseña de:

      • The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity

        Sanjoy Mahajan

        2014

      pág. 53

      

    • Big science: Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military–industrial complex

      Catherine Westfall

      Es reseña de:

      • Big science: Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military–industrial complex

        Michael Hiltzik

        2015

      pág. 53

      

    • Thermodynamics: for Physicists, Chemists and Materials Scientists

      Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann

      Es reseña de:

      • Thermodynamics: for Physicists, Chemists and Materials Scientists

        Reinhard Hentschke

        2014

      pág. 54

      

    • New books

      pág. 56

      

  • QUICK STUDY

    • Photosynthetic fluorescence, from molecule to planet

      Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohe, Joseph Berry

      • Resumen

      pág. 66