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Print edition: January 1998
Features
Air pollution: the role of particles
Air pollution: the role of particles
ESF ends year with a splash
EU increases access to facilities
Planning the possibilities for big science
Cash injected into US physics education
Physics in Action
Table-top lasers crash through the water window
Hole conductivity holds promise for transparent bipolar devices
Experiments look set to resolve superconductivity debate
Exotic adventures en route to the antiworld
Table-top lasers crash through water window
News & Analysis
Astronomers fight to defend frequencies
Austria keeps faith with neutron source
Physicist investigates new approach to forensic science at the FBI
Nations agree to cut emissions
Universities face further funding cuts
Sun sets on SOLEIL synchrotron
Independent approach to collaboration
Space agency thinks small
Recruitment problems tackled by White paper
Second thoughts about life on Mars
Royal observatory split up and sold off?
Universities face further funding costs
Reviews
Learning physics from science fiction
Science in the 20th Century,
John Krige and Dominique Pestre (ed)
The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the Universe(s) Report,
Timothy Ferris
Beyond Star Trek: Physics from Alien Invasions,
Lawrence Krauss