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Print edition: August 2000
Features
Getting to grips with the strong force
Physics in Action
Nuclear magic numbers appear and disappear
Chips get closer to quantum computing
Magnetism under the microscope
Table-top laser produces X-ray beams
New life for Schrodinger's cat
News & Analysis
Cash injection for UK science
Ethics in space moves up the agenda
Hawking slams "stupid and worthless" play
Galileo's part-time poetry
Revolutionary device polarizes opinions
And why do they ignore Japan?
New pole attract technology transfer
UK unveils new gallium-nitride facility
Star Wars project in trouble
Forum
A new conception of science
The dangers of voodoo science
Reviews
Fast track to cosmic splendour
Reflections on asymmetry in nature
Antimatter: The Ultimate Mirror, Gordon Fraser and Lucifer's Legacy: The Meaning of Asymmetry, Frank Close
The accelerating Universe: Infinate Expansion, the Cosmological Constant and the Beauty of the Cosmos, Mario Livio
Zen Buddhism and Modern Physics: Morality and Religion in the New Millennium, R J Brissenden
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