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Print edition: August 1998
Features
Optical sensors: a path to better gas detection
Thermophotovoltaics: the potential for power
Fuel cells: power for the future
The physics of El Niño
COST adds value to Euro collaboration
Finding a path to quantum computing
Physics in Action
How does a thin film rupture?
Of seas and surgeries: acoustics of the future
Microscopes get to the point
How does thin film rupture?
Post-deadline
Electronic ink - write on
Hydrogen condensate is go
Negative resistance puzzles researchers
News & Analysis
UK to build CERN detectors
Sweden delays CERN pull-out
Earth calling SOHO - where are you?
EU advisory bodies slim down
Scientists to be evaluated by new rules
American hesitation puts ITER in limbo
Who spends what - and where
The secret of a successful mission
Japanese physicist elected
More than just seeing the surface
France has new regulator
Bomb monitoring attacked
Americans like it, but are awful at it
Talking physics with the Dalai Lama
Cash bonanza for UK science
Call for industrial links
Editorial
Forum
Is physics sustainable?
Feedback
A sociologist says
Reviews
Panoramic view picks out physics
Hans Kramers: a master thinker
Master of Modern Physics: The Scientific Contribution of H A Kramers, Dirk ter Haar
The Ascent of Science, Brian Silver
Made to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century, Philip Ball
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