physics@nature.com 2 August 2012

Bringing you the latest and best in physics news and research from Nature Publishing Group For more information, see each journal's latest table of contents: Nature Volume 487 Number 7409 pp5-124 Nature Photonics Volume 6 No 8 pp 499-566 Nature Materials Volume 11 No 8 pp 651-742 Nature Chemistry Volume 4 No 8 pp 587-686 Nature Communications Nature Nanotechnology Volume 7 No 7 pp 409-479 Nature Physics Volume 8 No 7 pp 505-573 2 August 2012 Editorials World View News News Features Comment Books and Arts Correspondence News and Views Letters Articles Advertisement Feel like your paper is lost in a sea of submissions? Scientific Reports publishes your research quickly and efficiently, and makes it freely available to the global scientific community. Learn more with our one minute illustrative video.   Editorials top Unfortunate oversight Nature doi:10.1038/488005a Full Text | PDF Marching orders Nature doi:10.1038/488005b Full Text | PDF   World View top The time is right to confront misconduct Nature doi:10.1038/488007a Full Text | PDF   News top Planetary science: 7 minutes of terror Nature doi:10.1038/488016a Full Text | PDF Publishing: Geneticists eye the potential of arXiv Nature doi:10.1038/488019a Full Text | PDF   News Features top Science funding: Duel to the death Nature doi:10.1038/488020a Full Text | PDF   Comment top NASA: Let academia lead space science Nature doi:10.1038/488027a Full Text | PDF   Books and Arts top Astronomy: Under African skies Nature doi:10.1038/488030a Full Text | PDF   Correspondence top Higgs boson: Budget cuts leave US science lagging Nature doi:10.1038/488033a Full Text | PDF   News and Views top Quantum optics: Strongly interacting photons Thad G. Walker Nature doi:10.1038/488039a Full Text | PDF   Letters top Physics@nature JOBS of the week Professor in Theoretical Physics University of Mainz, Institute of Physics, Germany Postdoctoral Researcher in Physics: In Situ Catalysis Investigations Lund University, Division of Synchrotron Radiation Research Post-doctoral / Engineering position at the interface between cell biology and physics CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France) Permanent positions at the Applied Physics Department University of Sao Paulo Theoretical Chemical Physics University of Edinburgh - School of Chemistry More Science jobs from Physics@nature EVENT Topical Research Meetings on Physics: Quantum Technologies: Taking Concepts through to Implementations 17.-18.12.12 London, UK More science events from Quantum nonlinear optics with single photons enabled by strongly interacting atoms Thibault Peyronel et al. Nature doi:10.1038/nature11361 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Quantum phase transition in a resonant level coupled to interacting leads Henok T. Mebrahtu et al. Nature doi:10.1038/nature11265 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF A Newtonian approach to extraordinarily strong negative refraction Hosang Yoon et al. Nature doi:10.1038/nature11297 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Superfluid behaviour of a two-dimensional Bose gas Rémi Desbuquois et al. Nature Physics doi:10.1038/nphys2378 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Mapping Dirac quasiparticles near a single Coulomb impurity on graphene Yang Wang et al. Nature Physics doi:10.1038/nphys2379 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Cross-sectional imaging of individual layers and buried interfaces of graphene-based heterostructures and superlattices S. J. Haigh et al. Nature Materials doi:10.1038/nmat3386 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF   Articles top Experimental free-energy measurements of kinetic molecular states using fluctuation theorems Anna Alemany et al. Nature Physics doi:10.1038/nphys2375 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Unification of trap-limited electron transport in semiconducting polymers H. T. Nicolai et al. Nature Materials doi:10.1038/nmat3384 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF A flexible and highly sensitive strain-gauge sensor using reversible interlocking of nanofibres Changhyun Pang et al. Nature Materials doi:10.1038/nmat3380 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Patterning symmetry in the rational design of colloidal crystals Flavio Romano & Francesco Sciortino Nature Communications doi:10.1038/ncomms1968 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Roles of icosahedral and crystal-like order in the hard spheres glass transition Mathieu Leocmach & Hajime Tanaka Nature Communications doi:10.1038/ncomms1974 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Ambient-stable tetragonal phase in silver nanostructures Yugang Sun et al. Nature Communications doi:10.1038/ncomms1963 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Structural correlations in the generation of polaron pairs in low-bandgap polymers for photovoltaics Raphael Tautz et al. Nature Communications doi:10.1038/ncomms1967 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Plasmonic black gold by adiabatic nanofocusing and absorption of light in ultra-sharp convex grooves Thomas Søndergaard et al. Nature Communications doi:10.1038/ncomms1976 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Multi-length scale evaluation of the temperature-tunable mechanical properties of a lyotropic mesophase Sungwon Lee et al. Polymer Journal doi:10.1038/pj.2012.99 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Advertisement Subscribe here to Nature Photonics, providing a unique forum for all aspects of photonics and optoelectronics. You have been sent this Table of Contents Alert because you have opted in to receive it. You can change or discontinue your e-mail alerts at any time, by modifying your preferences on your nature.com account at: www.nature.com/nams/svc/myaccount (You will need to log in to be recognised as a nature.com registrant). For further technical assistance, please contact our registration department For print subscription enquiries, please contact our subscription department For other enquiries, please contact our feedback department Nature Publishing Group | 75 Varick Street, 9th floor | New York | NY 10013-1917 | USA Nature Publishing Group's worldwide offices: London - Paris - Munich - New Delhi - Tokyo - Melbourne San Diego - San Francisco - Washington - New York - Boston Macmillan Publishers Limited is a company incorporated in England and Wales under company number 785998 and whose registered office is located at Brunel Road, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. © 2012 Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved.