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Giant Magnetoresistance: A Tale of Pure and Applied Science

Somewhere around the middle of my time as undergraduate, I discovered personal computers that did not require a minimum of three floppy disks just to write a short paper. The vastly superior capability of such machines was courtesy of the internal hard disk drive, which on an IBM 8080 held about 20MB. While hard disk […]

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Climate Change and Anthropogenic Greenhouse Warming

I am pleased to announce launch of Climate Change and Anthropogenic Greenhouse Warming: A Selection of Key Articles, 1824-1995, with Interpretive Essays, the first edition of the National Science Digital Library’s “Classic Articles in Context” series. The concentration, which includes 21 pivotal studies spanning nearly two centuries, includes interpretive essays for each article written by […]

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