Vote for your favorite physical science haiku!

Here are all the phsyical science entries from the academic haiku contest.  Please vote for your favorite by Monday night (Feb. 26). UPDATE: Voting is now in progress to choose the overall winner! Vote by 11:59 PM, Wednesday, February 28.

1.
C60 islands.
molecules do not like salt;
strange shapes resulting.

“Buckminsterfullerene on KBr studied by High Resolution NC-AFM: Molecular nucleation and growth on an insulator”

2.
Equations, models,
approximations to code -
Convergence error

“In theory, in practice” (from a computational chemist)

3.
CoFeB,
Thin Mg, Thin MgO,
CoFeB

TMR paper, in preparation

4.
Peaks in the spectrum!
Is that spin transfer I see?
No! Blasted cellphone!

Paper, in preparation, on GHz noise in TMR junctions

5.
The f-cking protein
is intracellular, you
moron with glasses.

Intracellular EBV LMP2b reorganizes surface proteins

6.
LMP2b
shuts down B cell signaling
in lymphocyte cells.

Title TBA

7.
Hark! The virus works!
Won’t take me another year
to get me out. Yeah!

Title TBA

8.
Supernovae Flame
Miles-per-second fire
Slows down when bended

“The Response of Model and Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flames to Curvature and Stretch”

9.
Thermonuclear
Alchemy, carbon to iron,
Feels magnetic fields.

“The Linear Instability of Astrophysical Flames in Magnetic Fields”

10.
Waves crashing, cold spray,
Churning the hot rain inwards,
On ember of star.

“On Heavy Element Enrichment in Classical Novae”

11.
BACs with LoxP sites
are what I spend all day with.
Something Recombine!

“LMP2a/b-Knockout EBV lacks the ability to transform B-lymphocytes in vitro”

12.
Chlorite, iodide.
What makes such oscillations?
Perturb, gauge response.

“Experiments and theory toward the determination of bifurcation features and the deduction of the mechanism of the oscillatory chlorite-iodide reaction”

13.
A mature science
has no need for causal talk?
Chemists shout, ” ‘Fraid not!”

“Underlying Stories: The Structure of Causal Talk in Chemistry and in Everyday Life”

14.
Epsilon-Delta
the limit as x nears y
Joys of basic math!

“On basic (higher-level) math”

15.
Even spanning trees
Add one to Hall’s condition;
Matroids show it’s true.

“Bipartite graphs with even spanning trees”

16.
Lots to say about
Fractional domination,
Believe it or not

“Minimum fractional dominating functions and maximum fractional packing functions”