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Print edition: December 2005
Features
Sand, jams and jets
Getting to grips with granular materials
Slow light brings faster communications
All-optical networks move a step closer
Frontiers
Electrons lose their mass
Foam result surprises scientists
Looking back at the first stars
Can sound travel at the speed of light?
Innovation: Sound comes into touch
Innovation: Water sees the light
News & Analysis
Fire guts leading photonics centre
Investors eye up urine-powered battery
Martin Rees: Master of the universe
Buckyball pioneer dies
Collider back on track after tragedy
Europe positions itself in orbit
Physicists lay plan for developing world
What will they think in 2105?
Global events pull in the crowds
Budget cuts hit nuclear and space science
High-flux solar simulator lights up
Diplomat to head ITER project
Nobel laureate sent to prison
Change at Physics World
Editorial
Forum
Critical Point
General relativity
Feedback
Intelligent design: the response
No longer a last resort?
Einstein set to music
Einstein's light relief
Reviews
The best of Einstein
For your coffee table
Why Godel was a hero to Einstein
Physics meets philosophy
The fellows who let science flourish
The early years of the Royal Society
Keeping it in the family
The story of the Curies
Careers
How to become a creative scientist
Once a physicist: Brian Mawhinney
New fellows at the Institute of Physics
Lateral Thoughts
Quiz of the year 2005
