Proposals that would limit visas strike fear at universities

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Universities and high-tech companies worry that immigration-law changes will hurt US research. Most feared are amendments Alan Simpson proposed and retracted, but which may reappear, that would halve the time of temporary research visas and eliminate the 'outstanding researcher' green-card track.

Emigration and immigration, Scientists, Public opinion, Emigration and immigration law, Immigration law

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The spell of sonoluminescence

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Scientists have proposed several explanations for the light produced when ultrasound pervades a flask of water containing a hot toaster wire. Their theories will be presented at a Dec 1996 meeting of the Acoustical Societies of American and Japan.

Research, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Sonoluminescence, Acoustical Society of America

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The subtle flirtation of ultracold atoms

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Scientists have discovered correlations between collisions of ultracold atoms and more common phenomena. Ultracold collisions provide insight into the one-on-one interactions of atoms in Bose-Einstein condensates.

Observations, Bose-Einstein condensation, Atoms

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