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Physics World
Volume 21 No 11
November 2008

Features

The large hadron computer

How CERN will deal with the torrent of data from the LHC

The global-village pioneers

Founder of the arXiv preprint server Paul Ginsparg looks at how the Internet has changed scientific communication

Ending the great drought

Michael Riordan hopes that the LHC will bring particle physics back to its experimental roots

Physics World readers' survey

What was the biggest discovery in physics over the last 20 years? Take part in our special survey

Opinion

Has Bush been good for science?

George Bush's science adviser passes verdict

Beauty and the beast

Robert P Crease asks if the LHC can be called "beautiful"

Reviews

Nature's statute book

John Taylor looks at the top laws in science

Blog life: The Adventures of My Pet Hamster

Steve Sekula on running but going nowhere

Industry

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Optical tweezers: where physics meets biology

Joost van Mameren explains how optical tweezers can unravel the mechanical properties of biological molecules

Measuring ultrashort pulses needs precision

Marie Freebody speaks to Rick Trebino about the intricacies of measuring ultrashort pulses and how the devices that characterize such pulses can be commercialized

Phoenix unlocks the icy history of Mars

Jacqueline Hewett speaks to Peter Smith, the principal investigator on NASA's Phoenix mission to Mars

Jenoptik looks to solar for future growth

Michael Mertin is the man responsible for Jenoptik's recent restructure and securing future growth. Jacqueline Hewett asks him how heavily photovoltaics features in these plans

Plasmonics propagates into new optical fields

Marie Freebody speaks to Niek van Hulst about the potential wealth of applications for plasmonics

Menlo takes frequency combs to the masses

Nadya Anscombe discovers how Nobel prize winning research has been turned into a practical product

Featured Journal Article

Fully connected network of superconducting qubits in a cavity Nov 14, 2008

Dimitris I Tsomokos et al 2008 New J. Phys. 10 113020

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Headline news

LHC repairs underway Nov 21, 2008

Damaged magnets make their way out of tunnel

Proton and neutron masses calculated from first principles Nov 21, 2008 4 comments

Quantum chromodynamics makes us heavy, say physicists

US firm unveils plans for mini nuclear reactors Nov 20, 2008 13 comments

Tiny reactors have no moving parts and could power a small town for $25m

Is entanglement always good for quantum computers? Nov 20, 2008

Most entangled states are not useful, say physicists

Blog

Einstein and Eddington film Nov 20, 2008

There's a new film about Einstein and Eddington coming to UK television screens this Saturday...

UK schools to get 1000 telescopes Nov 19, 2008

In 1609 the Tuscan polymath Galileo Galilei was the first astronomer to point a telescope skywards...

Jobs

Doctoral Scholarships - Heidelberg, Germany

Posting date: Oct 9, 2008
Closing date: Dec 13, 2008
Heidelberg, Germany

Postdoctoral research fellowship in theoretical physics - Maynooth, Ireland

Posting date: Nov 20, 2008
Closing date: Jan 5, 2009
Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Lecturer (Akademischer Rat) - Wuppertal, Germany

Posting date: Nov 19, 2008
Closing date: Dec 31, 2008
Wuppertal, Germany

Lederman Fellowship in Experimental Particle or Accelerator Physics - Batavia, IL

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Closing date: Jan 12, 2009
Batavia, IL, United States

Applied Scientist Cryocooler Development - Didcot, UK

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Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Assistant Professor - Manhattan, KS

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