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Print edition: May 1997
Features
The acoustics of concert halls
Supercomputers speed up computation
Nanochemistry of grain boundaries
New voice for Europe
Eastern European physicists are in a fix
Exploit science
New initiatives in education
The sound of success
Accreditation first for Institute
Institute policy statements
Living in a material world
Superconductors speed up computation
Big science seeks industry
Physics in Action
Photons combine to visualize living tissue
X-rays probe small-scale polymer motions
Superlubricity: when friction stops
Granular material separate the rough from the smooth
Orbiting debris poses increasing threat to space missions
News & Analysis
US wavers on CERN
Boost for amplifier
Europe unveils neutron plans
Cluster will fly again
EC plans 5th Framework
Blue list labs to compete with universities
Germany plans world-beating linac
Will DESY go nuclear?
Japan's image is tarnished
Hale not hearty
Dreams of a muon collider
First for START
Space station held up
Nirex plan rejected
UK universities cut back on physics
Forum
Single number fails to do justice to research quality
What are the strengths and weaknesses of physics in Europe?
Feedback
Rotons remembered
Age concern
Reviews
Scanning the sky with a camera
Passionate about soft condensed matter
Welcome to the Department of Virtual Physics
Edward Purcell
Chien-Shiung Wu
Robert Dicke
Deryck Goodwin
Ambitious thoughts in search of tangible tests
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind Roger Penrose with Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright and Stephen Hawking
The Photographic Atlas of the Starts H J P Arnold, Patrick Doherty and Patrick Moore
Fragile Objects Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Jacques Badoz
Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics ed John Bahcall and Jeremiah Ostriker
