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Print edition: October 1998
Features
Laser spectroscopy probes the nucleus
Anomaly leads to Dirac Medal
Laser spectroscopy probes the nucleus
Physics in Action
High-temperature superconductors learn from heavy fermions
Computers made to tolerate defects
News & Analysis
Superconductivity debate gets ugly
SOHO back in the sunlight
Research suffers in French budget
Secret files reveal plan to kidnap Bohr
Big science eyes industry
...as reformer takes over in Japan
Japan supports fast breeders
Rubbia plans space mission
Masters degrees threatened
Science policy: straight talk in the US
Editorial
The Richard Feynman experience
Forum
Where will technology take us?
Reviews
Radio stars admire the greats
What entropy means for executives
On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNA,
Melvyn Bragg and Ruth Gardiner
A Scientists' Tools for Business: Metaphors and Modes of Thought,
Robert Sproull
Einstein's Miraculous Year: Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics,
John Stachel (ed)