Physics today

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  Año 2016, Vol. 69, Número 4

  • SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

    • LIGO detects gravitational waves

      Sung Chang

      • Resumen

      pág. 14

      

    • An atomic-scale optical modulator

      R. Mark Wilson

      • Resumen

      pág. 17

      

    • Printed shape-shifting materials mimic biological structures

      Johanna L. Miller

      • Resumen

      pág. 19

      

  • ISSUES AND EVENTS

    • What can Chernobyl teach us?

      Toni Feder

      • Resumen

      pág. 24

      

    • Reactor conversions need time, not more money

      David Kramer

      • Resumen

      pág. 28

      

    • Combatting professional isolation through mutual mentoring

      Toni Feder

      • Resumen

      pág. 29

      

    • A mixed bag for R&D in Obama’s last budget request

      David Kramer

      pág. 31

      

  • ARTICLES

    • Physics in 100 years

      Frank Wilczek

      • Resumen

      pág. 32

      

    • The difficult birth of NASA’s Pluto mission

      Michael J. Neufeld

      • Resumen

      pág. 40

      

    • What remote labs can do for you

      Luis de la Torre Cubillo, Juan Pedro Sánchez Fernández, Sebastián Dormido Bencomo

      • Resumen

      pág. 48

      

  • BOOKS

    • From the Great Wall to the Great Collider: China and the Quest to Uncover the Inner Workings of the Universe

      Lifan Wang (res.)

      Es reseña de:

      • From the Great Wall to the Great Collider: China and the Quest to Uncover the Inner Workings of the Universe

        Steve Nadis, Shing-Tung Yau

        International Press of Boston, 2015

      pág. 54

      

    • The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State

      Remo Ruffini (res.)

      Es reseña de:

      • The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State

        Fang Lizhi

        Henry Holt and Co., 2016

      pág. 54

      

    • Statistical Mechanics and Applications in Condensed Matter

      Erio Tosatti (res.)

      Es reseña de:

      • Statistical Mechanics and Applications in Condensed Matter

        Carlo Di Castro, Roberto Raimondi

        Cambridge U. Press, 2015

      pág. 56

      

    • The Quantum Dissidents: Rebuilding the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1950–1990

      Suman Seth (res.)

      Es reseña de:

      • The Quantum Dissidents: Rebuilding the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1950–1990)

        Olival Freire Jr.

        Springer, 2015

      pág. 57

      

    • New books

      pág. 58

      

  • QUICK STUDY

    • What did ancient people eat?

      Ashley J. Remy, Christopher W. Schmidt

      • Resumen

      pág. 78