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Print edition: March 1998
Features
Superconducting futures for Europe
Quantum cryptography
Quantum computation
Survey pinpoints the hardest-working students
Physics in Action
Suction power provides a new route to make microdrops
Quantum evaporation reveals Bose condensate in superfluid helium
Pauli principle combats quantum noise
Post-deadline
Inkjets display promise
Atom lasers go for gain
G hangs in the balance
News & Analysis
Australia joins Gemini
Teraflop attempt
Space cuts continue
Ministers cut budget
France fails to innovate
French science in a state of flux
Fusion partners vote to cut costs
Germany predicts future markets
The rise and fall of the group of Rome
Euro threat to small firms
Plessey sold to Mitel
Concluding advice
War of words over waste
New physics and materials grants are squeezed
UK demands cash boost
Lobby efforts pay off for US scientists
Clinton appoints physicist as science advisor
Editorial
Feedback
Teleportation: who was first?
Knowing reality through society
Reviews
The solid state at the click of a mouse
Two's company for Pluto
Pluto and Charon: Icy Worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System, Alan Stern and Jaqueline Mitton
Stuff: The Materials the World is Made of, Ivan Amato
Simulations for Solid State Physics: An Interactive Resource for Students and Teachers,
Electoral Science
