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Print edition: November 2005
Features
Particle accelerators light up
Photonic crystals join the race
A Hall of spin
Getting to grips with the spin hall effect
Free-electron lasers shine on
Welcome to a new generation of X-ray sources
Frontiers
Simulations reveal metallic superfluid
Cylinders provide new focus for water waves
Physics gives art the edge
Sounding out the Hall effect
Terahertz security imaging prepares for take off
News & Analysis
Nobel spotlight falls on optics
Physicist to lead Germany
Picturing the reality of quarks
Peace prize for atomic watchdog
Eight drops and counting...
Superheroes test laws of physics
Icy grave for polar mission
Physicists braced for gravity
Cosmic-ray observatory to open
Nuclear company set to be sold
Heavy ions found to damage DNA
Can physics accelerate biology?
European limits put MRI at risk
Doing physics off the beaten track
Nanotechnology bridges the commercial divide
US museums to promote nanotechnology
Time: a leap into the dark?
Editorial
Forum
Feedback
Against hydrinos
Making students think
Reviews
Oppenheimer on stage
The bomb as opera
Judging the stars of Stalin's science
Physics behind the Iron Curtain
Careers
A job with a sparkle
Once a physicist: Sir Brian Bender
Lateral Thoughts
Reflections of a grumpy old physicist
