Print edition: May 2005
Features
Quantum physics meets classical finance
Path integrals head for the stock market
Wave energy comes of age
Exploiting the power of the seas
Physics in Action
Rocks under pressure
NMR probes damage caused by salt
Exoplanet imaging heats up
Learning more about hot Jupiters
Chaos comes under control
Getting to grips with chaos
Post-deadline
Microscope targets crystallization
Nickel nuclei strike gold
Extrasolar planet comes into view
News & Analysis
Europe plans to double research
Fusion seen on table top
Engineer fights prejudice
Evidence for the pentaquark fades
Proton therapy arrives in Europe
The deep religion of Isaac Newton
B-factory back online after shutdown
New NASA boss faces discontent
Test proposed for extra dimensions
On the trail of deep-sea gas sources
Lisa Randall: A life with extra dimensions
Quark-gluon plasma turns liquid
Superlens breakthrough
Terrorists could target spent-fuel pools
Linear collider gets design chief
Martin Rees to head Royal Society
Netherlands opens up nanophotonics
Forum
Critical Point
Are accelerators dangerous?
Feedback
Space successes for UK universities
Ohm still standing
Born, again
In oar out?
Reviews
The colourful story of the strong force
Quarks and QCD
Careers
Over their heads
How to get a taste for teaching
Once a physicist: John McCracken
Lateral Thoughts
Let the inner Einstein out