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Randomness Reigns in Crystalline Order

31 July 2009
Chains of spheres representing polymers can arrange themselves into a crystal, which turns out to be the highest entropy structure, according to computer simulations.

PRL (24 July 2009)

polymers: random and crystalline arrangements

Supernova Starting Gun: Neutrinos

27 July 2009
Neutrinos arriving from a nearby supernova could be used to determine the precise moment when gravitational waves should appear, which may help researchers pick out the so-far-undetectable waves.

PRL (17 July 2009)

Landmarks: Powerful Pictures

20 July 2009
Richard Feynman invented the cartoon-like pictures of particle interactions that are essential to particle physicists and published the first one in 1949.

PR (15 September 1949)

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