From the vault: The future of the Higgs boson, by Joseph Lykken and Maria Spiropulu, December 2013.
From our archives: “The future of the #Higgs boson” by Joseph Lykken and Maria Spiropulu from December 2013
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From our archives: “Analysis of musical‐instrument tones” by Jean‐Claude Risset and Max V. Mathews from February 1969
"With computers we can not only analyse the sound of a musical instrument but also build up a synthesized copy of the sound."
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From our archives: “Color Perception” by Alan R. Robertson from December 1992
The physical stimulus that causes a color perception can be measured by straightforward physical methods, but predicting the perceived color is much more complex.
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From our archives: “Whiskey webs: Fingerprints of evaporated bourbon” by Stuart J. Williams. February 2021
When a water-diluted droplet of American whiskey evaporates, it can leave behind a self-assembled web pattern not found in Scotch or brandy.
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From our archives: “Introducing the black hole” by Remo Ruffini and John A. Wheeler
According to present cosmology, certain stars end their careers in a total gravitational collapse that transcends the ordinary laws of physics.
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From our archives: “What is the Lithosphere?” by John C. Maxwell from September, 1985
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Fom our archives: “The nuclear‐powered rocket feasible?” by H. S. Seifert from May, 1949.
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From the vault: Boltzmann's Entropy and Time's Arrow by Joel L. Lebowitz from September, 1993
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Given that microscopic physical lows are reversible, why do all macroscopic events have a preferred time direction? Boltzmann's thoughts on this question have withstood the test of time.
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“The emergence of rheology” by Hershel Markovitz from April, 1968.
From our archives: “The emergence of rheology” by Hershel Markovitz from April, 1968.
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Text overlay reading From the vault, July 1961. Optics and information theory by Richard K McDonald
From our archives: Optics and information theory by Richard K. McDonald from July 1961
Modern optical technology is being revolutionized through the use of the statistical methods of information theory in problems involving light‐gathering processes.
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From the vault: “CP symmetry violation” by James W. Cronin and Margaret Stautberg Greenwood from July, 1982
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In an informal discussion that grew out of a recent talk to physics teachers in Chicago, the codiscoverer of CP asymmetry recalls the circumstances of the observation and discusses its implications.
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Text over an image of women posing for a photo. Text reads: From the vault. May 2019. Celebrating and supporting African American women in physics" by Jami Valentine Miller
From our archives: "Fewer than 100 African American women have received PhDs in physics. AAWIP lists their names and provides resources for students, job seekers, and departments."
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Image with text showing "Carnot's contribution to thermodynamics" by Martin J. Klein, published in August 1974.
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"At first almost ignored and unread, Sadi Carnot's analysis of heat engines—published 150 years ago—contained ideas and methods that were to be developed later by Clausius and Thomson."
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From our archives: "Chandrasekhar vs. Eddington—an unanticipated confrontation" by Kameshwar C. Wali from October 1982.
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