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Print edition: December 2004
Features
The forbidden beauty of quasicrystals
How the laws of symmetry were broken
Physics in Action
Back to square one for superfluidity
Hydrogen gets exotic under extreme pressures
Superconductors go large
Giant proximity effect leads to news puzzle in superconductivity
Astrophysics in the lab
Planetary disk models come down to Earth
Post-deadline
Geomagnetic storm hits Saturn
Superconductors take an odd turn
Hall effect spin-off
News & Analysis
Decision time for fusion project
IBM system tops supercomputing table
Ink-jet firms join forces to study drops
Harvard heads university rankings
Neutrinos make a comeback in Japan
Denmark boosts space research and astronomy
Lucky break for imaging
Jill Tarter: On the hunt for our cosmic cousins
Harry Collins: Drama, tragedy and gravitational waves
All change at the top in US science
Electrical fire brings lab to a halt
Canada creates science academy
SMART-1 reaches the Moon
Editorial
Forum
Critical Point
The health effects of radiation
Feedback
Whistler waves
Quarks for real
EPSRC: Still in the dark about success
European danger
Reviews
The enigma of J Robert Oppenheimer
Two new biographies of an influential physicist
Feel the fascination of fractals
More than just pretty pictures
Strings, branes and extra dimensions
Far-out physics
Satisfying story of how it all began
A not-so-brief history of the big bang
Niels Bohr: a life in pictures
Quantum cartoons
Analysing the bubbly
Get out the champagne
Careers
Try your hand in a foreign land
Once a physicist: Emyr Jones Parry