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Bio Light
Devoted to organisms that chemically generate light, the bioluminescence Web pages from the University of California, Santa Barbara provide vivid images of this phenomenon in all its splendor. The site also furnishes basic information about the chemistry and biology of bioluminescence and provides links to recent research on the topic. Go to: http://lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/
- Physics
Matter waves: Be fruitful and multiply
For the first time, physicists induced atoms to amplify a selected matter wave in a manner analogous to a cascade of photons amplifying the characteristic electromagnetic wave of an optical laser.
- Materials Science
Impurity clouds from all sides now
For the first time, scientists have obtained detailed, three-dimensional images of line defects in steel.
