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Print edition: May 2001

Features

The industrial physicist who has it all

Water droplets make an impact

Soft condensed matter: where physics meets biology

A beginner's guide to intellectual property

Physics in Action

Triple first for Bose condensates

Because you're worth it

Optical billiards break new ground in quantum chaos

Getting all entangled up

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

Grand challenges for the US

Forum

Reflecting on the performance and challenges of UK physics

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

Feynman returns to centre stage

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)