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Bursting money bins, the ice and water structure
by Franco Bagnoli
Published online: 10 June 2015
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epn/2015301
In the classic comics by Carl Barks, “The Big Bin on Killmotor Hill” [1], Uncle Scrooge, trying to defend his money bin from the Beagle Boys, follows a suggestion by Donald Duck, and fills the bin with water. Unfortunately, that night is going be the coldest one in the history of Ducksburg. The water freezes, bursting the “ten-foot walls” of the money bin, and finally the gigantic cube of ice and dollars slips down the hill up to the Beagle Boys lot.
It’s all about trust…
by Herman C.W. Beijerinck
Published online: 10 June 2015
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epn/2015302
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Little big photon
by Vladan Vuletić
Published online: 10 June 2015
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epn/2015303
A photon, the constituent particle of light, carries only a tiny amount of energy. Furthermore photons do not interact with one another in vacuum, and generally only very weakly in optical media. Nonetheless, it has recently become possible for a single photon to switch on or off hundreds of other photons, or to generate entanglement between thousands of atoms.
The Netherlands’ Physical Society, NNV, a vibrant community of 4000 physicists
by Jan van Ruitenbeek
Published online: 10 June 2015
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epn/2015304
It was a lively conference, the annual meeting of the Netherlands’ Physical Society (Nederlandse Natuurkundige Vereniging, NNV) on April 10 at Eindhoven University of Technology. In addition to the plenary morning sessions and six parallel sessions in the afternoon, there were award ceremonies for the Teacher of the year and for the best Bachelor thesis, a Young Speakers Contest and a Physics Market. And the 2015 winner of the prestigious Physica award, Marileen Dogterom, delivered the Physica lecture. But what precisely is the NNV?
Nuclear physics for medicine: how nuclear research is improving human health
by Angela Bracco
Published online: 10 June 2015
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epn/2015305
The Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC) is an associated Committee of the European Science Foundation (ESF). Its mission is to strengthen European Collaboration in nuclear science through the promotion of nuclear physics, and its trans-disciplinary use and application in collaborative ventures between research groups.
Cosmic rays, clouds and climate
by Wolfgang Kundt
Published online: 10 June 2015
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epn/2015306
This article has no abstract.
