May 2016 Issue of Physics Today Is Online & in the Mail
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In the May 2016 Issue
The New Big Science
For several decades the character and culture of large-scale research at major facilities has been changing. Big Science isn’t what it used to be. — Robert P. Crease and Catherine Westfall
Atomic Hearts: A Decade of US Government-Sponsored Development
As the public attained a heightened awareness of the risks associated with 1970s-era medical technologies, it increasingly perceived nuclear-powered artificial hearts as too dangerous to support. — Shelley McKellar
Developing Physics Identities
A series of interviews with undergraduates yields some surprising insights into how the students come to think of themselves as physicists. — Paul W. Irving and Eleanor C. Sayre
...and much more!