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Print edition: April 2001
Features
Making the most of fibre optics
From astronomy to big business
A helping hand for spin-off firms
Photonic crystals blaze a trail
Danish start-up joins fibre boom
Andor Technology - here to last
Nanotechnology: an industry still on the starting blocks
Making money in the green fields of space
Swiss physicists sense success
Physics in Action
Telling left from right in the nucleus
Post-deadline
A double first close to absolute zero
News & Analysis
Linear collider race gets serious
Physicists face test of research quality
Jodrell Bank under threat
Budget blueprint shocks US physicists
US army turns on the heat
The bible for theorists goes electronic
UK seeds interdisciplinary research...
...as new institutes take shape in the US
Dark matter seen directly
EU calls for Framework boost
Matter-antimatter anticlimax
India boosts science spending
Trinity college picks physicist
Giacobino given top French job
NASA comes clean on SI units
Forum
Telling the truth about Einstein
Critical Point
Solutions to the scientific divide
Feedback
The two principles of Hasegawa
Reviews
Solving the puzzle of Hilbert's problems
Spectacular exposure to solar eclipses
Faith, Science and Understanding, John Polkinghorn
Facing up to the mystery of God
Glorious Eclipses: Their Past, Present and Future, Serge Brunier and Jean-Pierre Luminet
Spectacular exposure to solar eclipses
The Hilbert Challange, Jeremy Gray
Solving the puzzle of Hilbert's problems