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Print edition: March 1998
Features
Superconducting futures for Europe
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
News & Analysis
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
New physics and materials grants are squeezed
Lobby efforts pay off for US scientists
Clinton appoints physicist as science advisor
Forum
2005: a pause for silicon?
Feedback
Teleportation: who was first?
Knowing reality through society
Reviews
The solid state at the click of a mouse
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,