Print edition: May 2000
Features
Neuromagnetism: tracking the dynamics of the brain
The Z-pinch approach to fusion
Physics in Action
Freezing by heating
Seeing organic displays in a new light
Strange quarks put the proton in a spin
Surprises in self-assembled rings
Post-deadline
Comet tail breaks record
DNA forms liquid crystal
News & Analysis
Dielectric mirrors set to shine on
Allegre out after reshuffle
Danes sense new demand
Hubble prepares for the next ten years
Gamma rays down under
Toshiba gets a taste for basic research
Switzerland plans futuristic train link
Can the Grid succeed the Web?
Far sighted opticians turn to astronomy
Doing Mars on the cheap
Physics charts new geological landscapes
Calling all cosmophysicists
Boost for UK physics facilities
Potent greenhouse gasses found
Dyyson wins Temleton Prize
Editorial
Feedback
Diamond fall-out seen from inside
Einstein 1, Dirac 1
For the love of three quarks
Reviews
How Briatain was saved by radar
A Radar History of World War II: Technical and Military Imperitives, Louis Brown
Fusion:the final frontier for plasmas
Fusion: A Voyage Through the Plasma Universe, Hans Wihelmson
Impossible things usually don't happen
The Odd Quantum, Sam Treidman