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Print edition: May 2008
Features
GLAST goes for blast-off
NASA's GLAST gamma-ray mission is set to shed light on some of nature's most extreme astrophysical processes
Radioactivity doubles up
The direct detection of two-proton decay is opening a window onto the nuclear force
Quanta
Einstein gets in the zone
Energy, mass and Mariah
Courting controversy
Audio's holy grail
Frontiers
Iron rocks the high-Tc world
Single photons in space
Neutrons probe magnetic fields
An emotional test
The memory race is on
News & Analysis
Giant of physics John Wheeler dies
LIGO upgrade boosts search for gravitational waves
NASA science boss quits amid cash woes
Underwater telescope hunts neutrinos
EADS Astrium to buy Surrey Satellites
UK unveils plans for new light source
Telescope network in seventh heaven
NASA extends Cassini mission
China set to join world synchrotron elite
Europe plans world-beating laser
Budget cuts threaten UK's role in two LHC experiments
Physicist sets up pioneering science park in India
Slow clean-up for fast reactor
Editorial
Embargoed science
Embargoes may have their faults but they mask wider problems in science communication
Passing of a legend
The death of John Wheeler has robbed physics of one of its last links with Bohr and Einstein
Forum
Towards a European funding union
Critical Point
The Bohr paradox
Robert P Crease explains why Niels Bohr's towering role in the history of physics can be difficult to appreciate
Feedback
GCSE science — a dual problem
Radar matters
Coming clean
Reviews
Mission impossible
Gordon Fraser examines media-darling Michio Kaku's views on the physics of the impossible
Echoes and images
Roll of the dice
Particle stories
Careers
Lateral Thoughts
An outreach adventure
