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Print edition: July 2008
Features
A quantum renaissance
Markus Aspelmeyer and Anton Zeilinger on how technological advances let us readdress fundamental quantum puzzles
Dreaming in plastic
Conducting polymers are triggering a whole host of new applications from ultrathin flexible laptops to watch-sized TVs
Symmetry's physical dimension
Symmetry plays a vital role in physics, but could a bizarre 248D symmetry group called E8 really guide us to a theory of everything?
Quanta
Code crackers wanted
Toilet humour
Saucer surveillance
The LHC's a stage
Frontiers
Dying star spotted
Climate models prevail
Combination technique shows the strain
Shrimp vision polarized
Nanotubes grow bone
News & Analysis
ITER launch faces two-year delay
The International Space Station receives its largest science module
Particle physicists told to confront new challenges...
...as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory lays off staff
Italy makes a return to the nuclear fold
DAFNE upgrade leads the way to B-meson superfactory
Germany gets largest ever MRI scanner
New facility can recreate Sun's corona
Gamma-ray observatory takes off
UK set to seal fate of projects
Canadian institute gets cash boost
Quantum communication set for space
Seeking an African Einstein
Neutron lab hits second target
US halts Princeton University fusion facility
Willis Lamb: 1913–2008
NASA prepares for its next half century
Editorial
Breaking through
Those outside the mainstream can find it hard to make worthwhile scientific contributions
Forum
Breaking the grey ceiling
Critical Point
A gathering for Gardner
Robert P Crease examines why mathematics popularizer Martin Gardner inspires so many different kinds of people
Feedback
Radar history
GCSE lacks diversity
Luck and genius
Moving walls
Reviews
Keeping it in the family
Confound your intuition
Guessing games
The cost of going nuclear
A cosmic conundrum
Lincoln Wolfenstein explores the enduring mystery of matter–antimatter asymmetry
Blog life: Chris Lintott's Universe
Chris Lintott on life co-presenting TV's The Sky at Night
Careers
Once a physicist: Frank Reed
The creator of innovative desktop map software on making history come to life
Quasar pioneers rewarded
Europe promises better conditions
Top young physicists recognized
Movers and shakers
Lateral Thoughts
The last lecture
