Print edition: June 2001
Features
Asteroids: up close and personal
The impact of physics research
Physics in Action
Post-deadline
Multicolour rubber laser
Get in a spin
Semiconducting nitrogen
News & Analysis
US physicists dominate world top 100
Bright lights in Australia
Astronomers angered by lack of funding
Belfast confused by mystery questions
Parties spell out their science promises
Scientists sceptical about missile plans
Physicist exposes cheats
Plans to resurrect US nuclear power
Renewables test French nuclear loyalty
Jack Allen
Antimatter puzzles multiply
Do muons point to new physics?
Editorial
Feedback
Crackpot spotting
The music of the spheres
Reviews
Why Einstein reinvented the ether
How cryptology went commercial
Crypto: Secrecy and Privacy in the New Code War, Steven Levy
Into the Antiworld
Einstein and the Ether, Ludwik Kostro
Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond, Lawerence Krauss