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Print edition: May 2001
Features
A beginner's guide to intellectual property
Physics in Action
Post-deadline
Boost for dark energy
Engineering nanotubes
Moon joins climate watch
News & Analysis
Physicists start building the Grid
Mixed reception for the new PhD grants
Britney bridges the gap
Lithography firm etches a bright future
London college loses astrophysics group
Budget figures confirm physicists' fears
Time to make an impact
Take me to the stars
Is there a future for scientists in space?
Clifford Shull
Editorial
Critical Point
Crackpots and their convictions
Feedback
Career dynamics and least action
Reviews
A chemist reacts to the lure of the new
Dorothy's strange and charming story
The wizard of Quarks: A Fantasy of Particle Physics , Robert Gilmore
The New Chemistry, Nina Hall (ed)
Mathematics Unlimited: 2001 and Beyond, Bjorn Enquist and Wilfried Schmid (eds)
