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Print edition: March 2000
Features
The rise and rise of the mobile phone
Fractional quantum Hall effects
Physics in Action
Vertical devices take off
Semiconductors put spin in spintronics
Amplifier means gains for atom optics
Seeing first light from extrasolar planet
Post-deadline
First for quantum triplets
Molecular condensate
Quantum mirages
News & Analysis
CERN claims quark-gluon first
Astronomers fly higher and smaller
The music of earthquakes
Helping hand for chirality
France goes philosophical
Physical sciences share national wealth
Displays firm signals a global ambition
BT and Corning join forces
What price journals in an electronic era?
World order upset by new citation study
Physicist refuses to bet on the dogs
Pioneer quits Japan for US
UK must improve innovation
Is there life below the ice?
Editorial
Feedback
My friend and his hysteretic sandwich
Reviews
Vision of physics that warrants revision
Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age, Patricia Rife
Lise Meitner: a nuclear heroine?
What Science Is and How It Works, Gregory Derry
Vision of physics that warrants revision
Muddling Through: Pursuing Science and Truths in the 21st Century, Mike Fortun and Herbert J Bernstein
Science: A messy and clumsy business
