We are proud to present a collection of readings from our archives that are associated with this issue. Updated throughout the month. In this age of globalization, the ICTP continues to stem the brain drain of physicists from developing nations while at the same time responding to new scientific challenges. Communication in a Disordered World Rather than decreasing efficiency, scattering can actually increase the information transfer rate for cell phones and other wireless microwave communication devices.
Mesoscopic physics helps explain how.
Today's science education, which teaches all students to do science and think like scientists, has depended on the involvement of scientists and their societies. It must continue to do so. At first glance, ferromagnetism and superconductivity look incompatible, but that hasn't turned out to be the case. If plasmas can be held at higher pressures, the potential fusion power output is significantly greater. The BaBar collaboration at SLAC and the Belle collaboration at KEK in Japan have at last produced the first compelling evidence of CP violation in any system other than the neutral K mesons.