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Print edition: October 1997
Features
Exploring the solar system: a special issue
ESF Network set up for interdisciplinary theory
New chief of EPS appointed
Irish premier unveils tribute to Nobel laureate
New company is launched to organize conferences
Friendships formed at international student conference
Congress gets revitalized
Inside the solar system
Planets: something in the air
Mysteries of the sun
Comets: history in the sky
Inside the solid planets and moons
Swedish fusion plans approved
Evaluating physics in the UK
Physics in Action
Bubbles generate unexpected stress
Power laws for cities
Porous silicon lights up micro-optics
Lasers look through opaque solids
Exotic meson surprises theorists
News & Analysis
Axis row rolls on
Fractional charge carriers discovered
Research puts scanning electron microscopy in focus
National Agencies balk at payload bill
Heavy ions split US and Europe
France plans to open up its elite schools
India invests in fast-breeder reactor
Italy opens particle factory
Japan slowly increases funds
Proliferation worries grow at US reactor
Mission to Saturn ready to blast off
National agencies balk at payload bill
New model goes on the block
Labour moves cautiously
Young blood
Jobs for the boys
Bench-top support
US revives Star Wars plan
Editorial
Forum
Pearls, pebble and pyrites
Pearls, pebbles and pyrites
Feedback
Fellow peril
Reviews
The strain of success
Norris Bradbury
Louis Cohen
David Wright
Dick Jennings
Superconducting thoughts meet sceptical resistance
The Theory of Superconductivity in the High-Tc Cuprates Phillip Anderson
Golf Balls, Boomerangs and Asteroids: The Impact of Missiles on Society Brian Kaye
Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics Peter Galison
