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Physics World
Volume 22 No 1
January 2009

Features

Breaking new ground

Jon Cartwright tells the story of a physicist who thinks earthquake prediction could be possible

Seeing in the quantum world

Barry Sanders describes how to visualize a quantum computer

And the survey says...

The results of a special readers' survey are now in...

Quiz of the year 2008

The answers are all based on events that have been reported in Physics World over the last 12 months. There is a prize of £50 for the reader who gets the most questions right

Opinion

Critical Point: Science toys

Robert P Crease meets avid toy collector Tim Rowett

Reasons to be cheerful

The economy may be in a nosedive but there is plenty to look forward to in science this year

Reviews

Atomic arias

Oppenheimer takes centre stage, reports Robert P Crease

Web life: The Periodic Table of Videos

A periodic table with links to videos on all 118 chemical elements

Industry

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Optical tweezers: where physics meets biology

Joost van Mameren explains how optical tweezers can unravel the mechanical properties of biological molecules

Measuring ultrashort pulses needs precision

Marie Freebody speaks to Rick Trebino about the intricacies of measuring ultrashort pulses and how the devices that characterize such pulses can be commercialized

Phoenix unlocks the icy history of Mars

Jacqueline Hewett speaks to Peter Smith, the principal investigator on NASA's Phoenix mission to Mars

Jenoptik looks to solar for future growth

Michael Mertin is the man responsible for Jenoptik's recent restructure and securing future growth. Jacqueline Hewett asks him how heavily photovoltaics features in these plans

Plasmonics propagates into new optical fields

Marie Freebody speaks to Niek van Hulst about the potential wealth of applications for plasmonics

Menlo takes frequency combs to the masses

Nadya Anscombe discovers how Nobel prize winning research has been turned into a practical product

Featured Journal Article

Fully connected network of superconducting qubits in a cavity Nov 14, 2008

Dimitris I Tsomokos et al 2008 New J. Phys. 10 113020

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Headline news

Graphene transistor speeds up Jan 5, 2009

Devices based on ‘wonder material’ could soon catch-up with silicon

The best of 2008 Dec 22, 2008 11 comments

Monthly highlights from the year in physics

Obama nominates physicist as science advisor Dec 22, 2008 6 comments

'Science holds the key to our survival' says incoming US president

Random motion of bacteria could drive micromotors Dec 18, 2008 1 comment

Tiny organisms could spin a rotor, say physicists

Blog

Blast on BBC 4 Jan 5, 2009

Want to watch BLAST take off? BBC 4 is due to air the eponymous astrophysics documentary later this week...

And the survey says... Dec 22, 2008

The results of a special readers' survey marking Physics World's 20th anniversary are now in...

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