________________________________ Discover Physics & Math Newsletter 03.18.09 Greetings from the Discover Physics & Math newsletter, bringing the most interesting stories of the month straight to your inbox. Get the freshest science news delivered to your inbox every morning: Subscribe to the 80beats newsletter. Blogs 80beats: Quantum Physicist Wins $1.4M Templeton Prize For Work on “Veiled Reality”03.16.2009 80beats: Physicists Get Another Clue in the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Particle 03.16.2009 Cosmic Variance: Closing in on the Higgs Boson03.13.2009 Discoblog: A Life-Saving Slime? Military Has Eyes On Bullet-Proof Gel03.03.2009 The Man Who Found Quarks and Made Sense of the Universe03.17.2009 Murray Gell-Mann had a smash success with particles, notorious dustups with Feynman, and a missed opportunity with Einstein. 20 Things You Didn't Know About... TimeThe beginning, the end, and the funny habits of our favorite ticking force. 03.12.2009 Metamaterial Revolution: The New Science of Making Anything DisappearEngineers are working with metamaterials to create super-microscopes, optical computers, and yes, invisibility cloaks. 03.10.2009 The Kilogram Isn't What It Used to Be—It's LighterWithin a high-security, climate-controlled vault in France, the perfect kilogram is getting ever so slightly less massive—and no one knows why. 03.08.2009