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Print edition: July 2003
Features
Taking free-electron lasers into the X-ray regime
Free-electron lasers are set to provide researchers with intense femtosecond beams of coherent radiation at vacuum-ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths
Physics in Action
Electrons and nuclei get entangled
Magnetic resonance has enabled the control of quantum systems to move into a new realm
Spin gymnastics at HERA
Greater control of positron-proton collisions will allow physicists to explore how the interactions of elementary particles depend on spin
Post-deadline
Neutron star's X-factor
Novel design for protective tiles
Watching nanocrystals grow
News & Analysis
Chemical leak hits neutrino lab
Rising water swamps underground plans
Lab cooks up quark soup
Dancing about physics
Physicist takes up academic hot seat
VIRGO joins the search for gravitational waves
Phil Williams 1939-2003
Uppsala takes over Svedberg lab
Fuel cells could harm the environment
Didier Sornette: Learning from the master of complexity
Laser expert lights up entertainment
Directors star in research experiment
Science gets unlikely hero
Ilya Prigogine 1917-2003
Editorial
Forum
Critical Point
Seeing our own world rotate
Feedback
All steamed up
Reviews
Book that does what it says on the cover
A study aid for hard-pressed and hard-up students
Space race fails to take off
The ups and downs of manned spaceflight
Lateral Thoughts
The electron palace
