December 2014 Issue of Physics Today Is Online & in the Mail
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In the December 2014 Issue
The Deep Space Network at 50
From rovers on the surface of Mars to Voyager 1 near the edge of the solar system, spacecraft regularly call home to Earth. For five decades, the Deep Space Network has been at the other end of the line. — Joseph Lazio and Les Deutsch
The Changing Width of Earth's Tropical Belt
The belt emerges as a fundamental climatic feature of atmospheric circulation patterns on a rotating and differentially heated planet. But locating its edges and discerning anthropogenic influences remain difficult research problems. — Thomas Birner, Sean M. Davis, and Dian J. Seidel
Top-Down Nanomanufacturing
Integrated circuits with nanomaterial components can revolutionize technology, but only if they can be economically fabricated in large numbers. — Matthias Imboden and David Bishop
...and much more!