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Print edition: April 2000
Features
Terahertz imaging comes into view
New designs on complex patterns
Physics in Action
Colloids reinforce glass theory
Superconducting ladders take breather
A good START for fusion
Adaptive optics brings full sky into focus
Post-deadline
Two more quantum firsts
Biodegradable MEMS
The far side of the Sun
News & Analysis
Daresbury lab faces bleak future
Japan seeks to commercialize research
NASA eyes up gamma rays
Theory group up for grabs
Marconi breeds new culture of growth
No mirrors, no problem
Fresh ideas to help women in science
Nuclear energy:part of a green future?
Photovoltaics in the 21st century
Wind power: big in Denmark
Search is on for teaching talent
Boost for Irish science
Agilent prize announced
Cosmology prize launched
ESA get flexible
May set for Royal Society
How to build your own high-tech firm
UK telescope to be built in Chile
Editorial
Feedback
In defence of anoraks
Reviews
How to build your own high-tech firm
Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth Century Physics, George Johnson
Weaving the Web: The past, Present and future of the World Wide Web by its Inventor, Tim Berners-Lee
The Entrepreneurial Engineer: Starting Your Own High-Tech Company, R Wayne Fields
