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Tiny tubes touted for tougher designs Locally developed filaments are 20 times stronger than steel — and offer a potential economic boost. By Dave Schleck, Daily PressMarch 29, 2004 NEWPORT NEWS — A refined version of the material in pencil tips could become lightweight, super-strong building blocks of spacecraft, computer electronics and skyscrapers, thanks in part to research at Jefferson Lab in Newport News.

A New Era of Discovery in Physics With Good ReasonMarch 6-12, 2004 Sean Tubbs, an associate producer for With Good Reason, visited JLab February 23 to interview Hall A Users Vina Punjabi (Norfolk State University) and Charles Perdrisat (William & Mary), Hall B User Kevin Giovanetti (James Madison University) and Hall C User Ioana Niculescu (James Madison University) about their research.

Evidence For New Form Of Atomic Matter - The Pentaquark Science a GoGoJanuary 26, 2004 An team of physicists has provided the best evidence to date of the existence of a new form of atomic matter, dubbed the "pentaquark." The research team confirmed the existence of pentaquarks by using a different approach that greatly increased the rate of detection compared to previous experiments. The results are published in the journal Physical Review Letters.

The Pentaquark: The Strongest Confirmation to Date Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteJanuary 26, 2004

Topsy Turvy: In neutrons and protons, quarks take wrong turns By Peter Weiss, Science News OnlineJanuary 3, 2004 Physicists peering inside the neutron are seeing glimmers of what appears to be an impossible situation. The vexing findings pertain to quarks, which are the main components of neutrons and protons. The quarks, in essence, spin like tops, as do the neutrons and protons themselves.

Demolition Derby of Physics Jars Loose Clues on Subatomic Glue By James Glanz, Science Times, New York TimesDecember 30, 2003

The spins of the proton's two valence up quarks are aligned parallel to the overall proton spin, but the same is not true for the proton's valence down quark.

Scores at Norview High are on the rise By Kristen King, The Virginian-PilotNovember 27, 2003 NORFOLK — Tori Jacobs turned her Algebra I classroom at Norview High into a monstrous X-Y graph recently, strung a red streamer between two desks and challenged students to calculate the slope of the line.

JLab Upgrade Named Near-Term Priority In DOE 20-Year Facility Plan November 11, 2003

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Message from SURA President Jerry Draayer I want to express my deep concern for the impact that Hurricane Isabel has had on both your personal and working lives. Having lived through the ravages of Andrew down in Louisiana a few years back, which took down more than half of the trees in my back yard and ripped up parts of our home and left us without power for ten days, I know how hard it can be to pick up the pieces and move on - literally, as well as figuratively.

Messages from Lab Management In an e-mail message to JLab's Hall B collaboration, Hall B Leader Volker Burkert, wrote: Dear Collaborators:

CEBAF celebrates seven years of physics CERN CourierNovember 2003 Douglas Higinbotham reports from the Jefferson Lab symposium on results that span the boundary between nuclear-meson models and quark-gluon physics.

Left to right: Gwyn Williams, George Neil and Kevin Jordan of JLab's high-power terahertz demonstration experiment.

Russian and 2 Americans Win Nobel Prize Physics Honors By Kenneth Chang, The New York TimesOctober 8, 2003 A Russian and two Americans, one originally from Russia and one from England, won the Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday for their insights on how electricity can flow through some materials without resistance and some fluids can flow without friction.

Nobel Prize in physics awarded By Matt Moore, CNews WorldOctober 7, 2003 STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Russian, a Russian-American and a Briton who also has U.S. citizenship will share this year's Nobel Prize in physics for theories about how matter can show bizarre behaviour at extremely low temperatures.

Two Americans, Russian Win Nobel Prize in Physics By Patrick McLoughlin, ReutersOctober 7, 2003 STOCKHOLM, Oct 7 — Three scientists who worked separately to explain the nature of matter at extremely low temperatures won the 2003 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday. The three — Russians Vitaly Ginzburg and Alexei Abrikosov and British-born Anthony Leggett — worked on theories that led to the development of magnetic imaging scanners.

(from top to bottom) Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg and Anthony J. Leggett will share this year's Nobel Prize in physics. Jefferson Lab Built on Nobel Prize Winning Physics October 5, 2003