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doi:10.1038/nphys518

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Welcome to the future - p1

doi:10.1038/nphys510

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Rubidium 'whiskers' in a vapour cell - p2

M. V. Balabas, A. O. Sushkov and D. Budker

doi:10.1038/nphys496

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Seismic signature - pp4 - 6

Paul G. Richards and Won-Young Kim

doi:10.1038/nphys495

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Thesis: The physics of life - p7

Mark Buchanan

doi:10.1038/nphys492

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Thesis: The end of the world as we know it - p7

David Goodstein

doi:10.1038/nphys503

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A touch too much - p9

doi:10.1038/nphys501

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A carousel of physics - p11

doi:10.1038/nphys504

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Nonlinear optics: Shocking superfluids - pp13 - 14

Lene Vestergaard Hau

doi:10.1038/nphys498

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Astroparticle physics: X-ray diagnosis of a quasar - p14

May Chiao

doi:10.1038/nphys499

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Quantum magnetism: A watched pot on a quantum stove - pp15 - 16

Dietrich Belitz and Theodore R. Kirkpatrick

doi:10.1038/nphys485

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Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics | Materials physics

Attosecond Physics: Better by half - pp16 - 18

Steven T. Cundiff

doi:10.1038/nphys493

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Subject Categories: Optical physics | Techniques and instrumentation

Complex networks: Role model for modules - pp18 - 19

Sergei Maslov

doi:10.1038/nphys493

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Subject Category: Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics

Biophysics: Pushed to the limit - p19

Alison Wright

doi:10.1038/nphys500

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Direct observation of the coherent precession of magnetic domain walls propagating along permalloy nanowires - pp21 - 25

Masamitsu Hayashi, Luc Thomas, Charles Rettner, Rai Moriya and Stuart S. P. Parkin

doi:10.1038/nphys464

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Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Electronics, photonics and device physics | Nanotechnology

Local fluctuations in the ageing of a simple structural glass - pp26 - 28

Horacio E. Castillo and Azita Parsaeian

doi:10.1038/nphys482

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Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics | Materials physics

Phase separation and suppression of critical dynamics at quantum phase transitions of MnSi and (Sr_1-xCa_x)RuO₃ - pp29 - 35

Y. J. Uemura, T. Goko, I. M. Gat-Malureanu, J. P. Carlo, P. L. Russo, A. T. Savici, A. Aczel, G. J. MacDougall, J. A. Rodriguez, G. M. Luke, S. R. Dunsiger, A. McCollam, J. Arai, Ch. Pfleiderer, P. Böni, K. Yoshimura, E. Baggio-Saitovitch, M. B. Fontes, J. Larrea, Y. V. Sushko and J. Sereni

doi:10.1038/nphys488

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Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics | Techniques and instrumentation

Quasiparticle dynamics in graphene - pp36 - 40

Aaron Bostwick, Taisuke Ohta, Thomas Seyller, Karsten Horn and Eli Rotenberg

doi:10.1038/nphys477

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Subject Category: Condensed-matter physics

Controllable valley splitting in silicon quantum devices - pp41 - 45

Srijit Goswami, K. A. Slinker, Mark Friesen, L. M. McGuire, J. L. Truitt, Charles Tahan, L. J. Klein, J. O. Chu, P. M. Mooney, D. W. van der Weide, Robert Joynt, S. N. Coppersmith and Mark A. Eriksson

doi:10.1038/nphys475

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Subject Categories: Electronics, photonics and device physics | Condensed-matter physics | Quantum physics

Dispersive superfluid-like shock waves in nonlinear optics - pp46 - 51

Wenjie Wan, Shu Jia and Jason W. Fleischer

doi:10.1038/nphys486

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Subject Categories: Optical physics | Electronics, photonics and device physics | Fluid dynamics

Half-cycle cutoffs in harmonic spectra and robust carrier-envelope phase retrieval - pp52 - 57

C. A. Haworth, L. E. Chipperfield, J. S. Robinson, P. L. Knight, J. P. Marangos and J. W. G. Tisch

doi:10.1038/nphys463

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Subject Categories: Optical physics | Techniques and instrumentation

Scaling of proton acceleration driven by petawatt-laser–plasma interactions - pp58 - 62

L. Robson, P. T. Simpson, R. J. Clarke, K. W. D. Ledingham, F. Lindau, O. Lundh, T. McCanny, P. Mora, D. Neely, C.-G. Wahlström, M. Zepf and P. McKenna

doi:10.1038/nphys476

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Subject Category: Plasma physics

Classes of complex networks defined by role-to-role connectivity profiles - pp63 - 69

Roger Guimerà, Marta Sales-Pardo and Luís A. N. Amaral

doi:10.1038/nphys489

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Subject Category: Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics

The dancing flea - p70

Liesbeth Venema

doi:10.1038/nphys487

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