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Physical Review Focus
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Physical Review Focus is a free online service that provides brief explanations of selected research papers from APS journals at a level accessible to students and researchers in all fields of physics. The stories are written in the style of a news article, including color images and occasionally related videos. Focus serves as a useful introduction to current research topics.
Current Highlights in Physical Review Focus
Cutting Ice with a Nanowire
Nanoscale simulations of a classic experiment show that it's harder to cut through ice with the pressure of a water-repelling wire than with a water-attracting one.
Image: T. Hynninen/Tampere Univ. of Technology
Paper Stretches Unevenly
The stretching of a sheet of paper shows spatial variations that become more important over time. Such uneven stretching could also be important when other materials are stressed.
Image: J. Koivisto/Aalto Univ.
A Better Picture of Molecules
A new technique gives more detailed images of molecules by measuring the quantum mechanical repulsion between the imaged molecule and a small probe molecule.
Image: Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 086103 (2010)
