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Print edition - index 2009

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Accelerators/acceleration mechanisms

  • Accelerating into the future Murray C May p16
  • Japan accelerates ahead Banks M Aug p11

Acoustics

  • Device developed to reverse the Doppler effect Mar p5
  • Black-hole analogue traps sound Jul p4

Applications

  • Fishing for energy Jan p5
  • Oil pipes and arteries Sarran C Jan p21
  • Nanowires stick to chips Feb p5
  • Electricity unplugged Karalis A Feb p22
  • Seeking a biosensor powered by vibrations Apr p5
  • Bubbles burst for hospital cleanliness May p5
  • Wireless worries Muller H; Scott S; Nielsen H, Allen J; Stancey G; Taylor S May p20
  • Clothes that can see Aug p5
  • Singing oven SCOREs in the developing world Sep p5

Art and science

  • New initiative links scientists and entertainers Jan p11
  • Atomic arias Crease R P Jan p34
  • Last tango at Fermilab Jan p37
  • When Eddington met Einstein Jan p37
  • Science is not always a BLAST Jan p37
  • Hidden sketches by Leonardo da Vinci revealed Feb p7
  • Art and science Feb p15
  • Underneath the surface Cofield C Feb p32
  • The science of fine art Young C Feb p42
  • Hanks for the memory Mar p3
  • Peter Higgs appears on canvas Apr p7
  • Art meets science Khandekar N Apr p20

Astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology

  • Dark matter in the ATIC Jan p4
  • Cosmologists puzzle over mystery in the cosmos Jan p5
  • Asia joins forces in radio astronomy Jan p9
  • Europe unveils 20-year road map Jan p9
  • Atlantic observatory starts up Jan p11
  • Let the global astronomy celebrations begin Cartright E and Banks M Jan p12
  • Shock and awe Bourne N Jan
  • Simulation takes the limit off star formation Feb p5
  • China to build giant radio telescope Feb p7
  • Not wrapped up yet Jaffe A Feb p36
  • New light on the farside of the Moon Mar p5
  • Detecting new Earths Schirber M Mar p8
  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey tops astronomy citation list Mar p10
  • Who's Galileo? Mar p11
  • A year of astronomy Dench P; Htoon S Mar p17
  • FAST success Duffy A Mar p17
  • In Galileo's footsteps Mar p21
  • Cosmic visions Cesarsky C, Rees M, de Zeeuw T, Huchra J, Fabian A, Jae Park S Mar p22
  • Brave new worlds Boss A Mar p26
  • Up close and personal Williamson M Mar p33
  • Another giant leap for mankind Spudis P D Mar p40
  • Sites for sore eyes Crease R P Mar p46
  • The Galileo affair Finocchiaro M A Mar p54
  • A pale orange dot Chicarro A Mar p58
  • Web life: Cosmic Diary Mar p59
  • Ancient astronomy revealed Steele J Mar p60
  • Telescopes on parade Mar p62
  • Scientific sleuthing Mar p62
  • For all eyes only Mar p62
  • Sky guide Mar p62
  • Living life on 'Mars' Mason E Mar p64
  • Clutching at dark straws Oliver K Mar p80
  • Still a planet Apr p3
  • Mapping the cosmos Clery D Apr p8
  • Cosmic alternatives? Gregory R Apr p40
  • Telescope hunts for cosmic explosions May p7
  • Clover and out for UK telescope May p7
  • Giant array faces financial and political challenges May p8
  • Canada stamps its mark on the IYA May p10
  • Judging Galileo Hutchinson I; Brandon D; Ferguson I May p21
  • In the dark Bell M; Pointon T May p23
  • The unique universe Smolin L Jun p21
  • Is there really no place like home? Quirrenbach A Jun p40
  • Poor old Pluto Jun p42
  • The handbag has landed Jul p3
  • Calling the space 'tweedia' Jul p3
  • Who needs the lunar breakdown services? Jul p3
  • New light on axions Jul p4
  • China opens giant celestial scanner Jul p7
  • Canadian neutrino lab branches out Jul p9
  • Deflecting another Tungunska Williamson M Jul p11
  • Italian magic Varaschin A Jul p21
  • Darwin’s legacy Susskind L Jul p42
  • The Earth – for physicists Baez J Aug p22
  • Spain opens world's largest telescope Sep p9
  • Giant facilities edge closer to reality Sep p9
  • Voyager heads for interstellar space Corfield R Sep p11
  • Unsolved mysteries of the universe Clegg B Sep p40
  • Astronomy dominates Sep p41
  • All hail the telescope Sep p41

Atomic and molecular physics

  • Teleportation goes the distance Mar p4
  • Joint mission planned for Jupiter Mar p11
  • The strong-correlations puzzle Quintanilla J and Hooley C Jun p32
  • Of gluons, atoms and strings Jacak B Sep p35

Australia

  • Giant array faces financial and political challenges May p8
  • Austria in U-turn over CERN pull-out Jun p7
  • Australia boosts funding for R&D Jun p14

Awards and prizes

  • Nobel for one, not all Wimbush S Jan p20
  • Hawking receives top US award at White House Sep p10
  • Row bubbles up over particle prize Sep p13

Biophysics

Books reviewed

  • Lord Kelvin, revolutionary scientist Saxon D Jan p36
  • Not wrapped up yet Jaffe A Feb p36
  • E=mc² in theory and in practice Friedlander M W Feb p38
  • Putting ATLAS on the map Feb p40
  • Not forbidden fruit Feb p40
  • Literary love Feb p40
  • A universe of verse Feb p40
  • A pale orange dot Chicarro A Mar p58
  • Ancient astronomy revealed Steele J Mar p60
  • Telescopes on parade Mar p62
  • Scientific sleuthing Mar p62
  • For all eyes only Mar p62
  • Sky guide Mar p62
  • Beautifully strange Enderby J Apr p38
  • In their own words Apr p42
  • One scientist's faith Apr p42
  • A voice of dissent Apr p42
  • More than wishful thinking Barnes C W May p42
  • The story of the quantum O'Raifeartaigh C May p44
  • The Hawkings in space May p45
  • Hmm, that's funny... May p45
  • Questions of attribution Steele J Jun p18
  • Computing tomorrow's weather Jun p38
  • Is there really no place like home? Quirrenbach A Jun p40
  • Poor old Pluto Jun p42
  • All about antimatter Jun p42
  • Big science in Oxfordshire Jun p42
  • Beyond Einstein's gravity Amelino-Camelia G Jul p48
  • Bad golfers of the world, unite Jul p50
  • Physics tackles rugby Jul p50
  • Avast ye landlubbers Jul p50
  • Into the woods Jul p50
  • From prairie to energy frontier Roser R Aug p36
  • How Britannia beat the waves Bridgman R Aug p38
  • Revenge of the mathematicians Aug p39
  • Revisit your enthusiasm Aug p39
  • Dreams of a quantum pioneer Segrè G Sep p38
  • Unsolved mysteries of the universe Clegg B Sep p40

Canada

  • Top scientists join Stephen Hawking at Perimeter Institute Mar p7
  • Canada stamps its mark on the IYA May p10
  • Isotope shortage triggers delays for patients Jul p8
  • Canadian neutrino lab branches out Jul p9
  • Canadian reactor delays add to agency's troubles Aug p8

Careers and employment

CERN

  • CERN releases damage assessment Jan p11
  • CERN seeks better communication Feb p11
  • Putting ATLAS on the map Feb p40
  • CERN hold-up hurts graduate students Chalmers M Mar p14
  • CERN marks 20 years of the Web Apr p11
  • Students and the LHC Privett G Apr p21
  • Austria in U-turn over CERN pull-out Jun p7
  • Beleaguered LHC gears up for restart Sep p7
  • A new time machine Sep p41

China

  • China to build giant radio telescope Feb p7
  • Top minds sought in China Feb p11
  • FAST success Duffy A Mar p17
  • China experiments with solar-thermal power production Apr p7
  • Riding the red dragon Broadwell I May p46
  • Chinese synchrotron opens up Jun p10
  • China creates quantum network Jun p11
  • China opens giant celestial scanner Jul p7
  • Science road map unveiled Aug p10

Climate change and the environment

Computation and software

  • Computing tomorrow's weather Jun p38

Condensed matter

  • Droplets get third lobe Jan p4
  • Not forbidden fruit Feb p40
  • Fermi surface unmasked Apr p4
  • The rise and fall of a physics fraudster Reich E S May p24
  • Towards the ultimate transistor Natelson D Jun p27
  • The strong-correlations puzzle Quintanilla J and Hooley C Jun p32
  • Sand drips like water Aug p5
  • DNA sifts nanotubes Aug p5
  • Beyond the wonder material Novoselov K Aug p27

Denmark

  • Boost for Swedish neutron bid May p10

Education

Energy

  • Fishing for energy Jan p5
  • Stanford sets up $100m energy institute Feb p9
  • Solar power edges towards grid parity Feb p14
  • Electricity unplugged Karalis A Feb p22
  • Once a physicist: Zhengrong Shi Feb p44
  • Italy seeks geothermal renaissance Mar p10
  • Wireless worries Muller H; Scott S; Nielsen H, Allen J; Stancey G; Taylor S May p20
  • Carrot car Jun p3
  • Boost for carbon-capture facility Jul p10
  • Fiddling on the roof Willcox N Aug p21
  • Renewable energy boosted by US stimulus cash Sep p8

Europe

  • Carbon-capture and gamma-ray labs top Euro wish list Jan p6
  • Sweden leads race to host European neutron facility Jun p8
  • Europe's education experiment Banks M Jun p12

European Space Agency

  • Europe and US seek collaboration on missions to Mars Jan p7
  • Joint mission planned for Jupiter Mar p11
  • Mapping the cosmos Clery D Apr p8
  • Europe unveils plans for UK space base Sep p7

European Union

Facilities

  • Carbon-capture and gamma-ray labs top Euro wish list Jan p6
  • European synchotron secures €177m for upgrade Jan p7
  • Rough Diamond Zetie K Jan p20
  • Framework faults Vierkorn-Rudolph B Feb p19
  • Sites for sore eyes Crease R P Mar p46
  • Telescope hunts for cosmic explosions May p7
  • Boost for Swedish neutron bid May p10
  • Sweden leads race to host European neutron facility Jun p8
  • Chinese synchrotron opens up Jun p10
  • Big science in Oxfordshire Jun p42
  • Japan accelerates ahead Banks M Aug p11

Fluid dynamics

  • Fish swish the oceans Sep p5

France

  • Minister unveils new nanotech centres Jun p10
  • Cesarsky chosen as nuclear adviser Jun p10

Fusion

Geophysics

  • Breaking new ground Cartwright J Jan
  • Shock and awe Bourne N Jan
  • Italy seeks geothermal renaissance Mar p10
  • Planets under pressure Jeanloz R Apr p34
  • Damaging effect: the impact of the L'Aquila earthquake Banks M May p13
  • The Earth – for physicists Baez J Aug p22
  • New-found order in the valleys Sep p5

Germany

  • Construction starts on €1bn X-ray free-electron laser Feb p10
  • World's brightest synchrotron powers up May p8
  • Germany unveils €18bn research plan Jul p10

Gravity and general relativity

  • Castles in the air Perkowitz S Jan
  • What goes up... Chambers R; de Podesta M; Fox M Feb p20
  • New probe plots Earth's gravity field Mar p11
  • Cosmic alternatives? Gregory R Apr p40
  • That gravity thing Jewess M May p23
  • The unique universe Smolin L Jun p21
  • Black-hole analogue traps sound Jul p4
  • Beyond Einstein's gravity Amelino-Camelia G Jul p48
  • Of gluons, atoms and strings Jacak B Sep p35

History of physics

  • Salam's independence Fraser G Jan p21
  • Atomic arias Crease R P Jan p34
  • Lord Kelvin, revolutionary scientist Saxon D Jan p36
  • Journeys to greatness Crease R P Feb p18
  • E=mc² in theory and in practice Friedlander M W Feb p38
  • Literary love Feb p40
  • The Galileo affair Finocchiaro M A Mar p54
  • Pure genius Apr p15
  • German for physicists Stein B Apr p16
  • Beautifully strange Enderby J Apr p38
  • The gambling scholar Ekert A May p36
  • The story of the quantum O'Raifeartaigh C May p44
  • Questions of attribution Steele J Jun p18
  • 'Shockley park' stirs racism row Jul p9
  • In praise of Darwin Durrani M Jul p15
  • Sprechen Sie Physik? Lamden R J Jul p21
  • Darwin’s legacy Susskind L Jul p42
  • A tale of two minds Fraser G Aug p32
  • How Britannia beat the waves Bridgman R Aug p38
  • Free audio archive brings legends to life Sep p10
  • Remembering Salam Durrani S; Duff M; Adams B Sep p21
  • Dreams of a quantum pioneer Segrè G Sep p38

India

  • India targets bigger and faster grants Feb p14
  • Unleashing science in India Bagla P Apr p12

Industry and innovation

  • Solar power edges towards grid parity Feb p14
  • Oxford Instruments honoured Apr p11
  • In search of the black swans Buchanan M Apr p22
  • Qatar opens science park May p10
  • Future nuclear plants could put pressure on helium supply May p11
  • Swanning about Padman R; Herrod R Jun p18
  • Diamond targets E. coli Jul p5
  • Intel turns to photonics to extend Moore's law Hitz B Jul p12
  • Once a physicist: Bruce McWilliams Jul p54
  • Nortel sheds staff as bankruptcy bites Sep p8

International

  • Asia joins forces in radio astronomy Jan p9
  • Science comes to @Bahrain Jun p10
  • Pakistan boosts science budget Aug p10

Internet

Ireland

  • Science offers hope for Irish economy May p10

Italy

  • SuperB machine set to study antimatter Feb p11
  • Italy seeks geothermal renaissance Mar p10
  • Damaging effect: the impact of the L'Aquila earthquake Banks M May p13

Japan

  • Japanese mega-lab nears completion Feb p11
  • Neutrino beamline begins its journey from Japenese lab Jun p8
  • Stage fright Aug p3
  • Japan completes space lab Aug p9
  • Japan accelerates ahead Banks M Aug p11

Lasers and optics

  • World's biggest laser powers up Mar p7
  • Maxwell's demon lives May p5
  • Intel turns to photonics to extend Moore's law Hitz B Jul p12

Lateral thoughts

  • What's your favourite planet? Edwards P Jan p48
  • What did sociologists ever do for us? Macdonald A Feb p52
  • Clutching at dark straws Oliver K Mar p80
  • The downside of technology O'Raifeartaigh C Apr p56
  • Subs, satellites and dark matter Jenkins D May p56
  • Weapons of mass instruction Lewney M Jun p52
  • On the origin of the Darwin unit McGuigan K Jul p60
  • Blame it on the butterfly Oliver K Aug p48
  • Schrödinger’s dog Monteiro L H A Sep p52

Light sources, synchotrons and free-electron lasers

  • European synchotron secures €177m for upgrade Jan p7
  • Construction starts on €1bn X-ray free-electron laser Feb p10
  • Brookhaven lab gets the nod for $900m light source Feb p10
  • A new frontier awaits for US particle-physics lab Mar p12
  • Light omission Brinkmann R, Weckert E Mar p17
  • World's brightest synchrotron powers up May p8

Mathematical and statistical physics

  • Invisibility to cover entire spectrum Jan p4
  • Shiftier constants Jones J Jan p21
  • Flu fighters use the Web to track virus Apr p10
  • Algorithm automates physical laws May p4
  • Web life: Phun Jun p39
  • Into the woods Jul p50
  • A tale of two minds Fraser G Aug p32
  • Revenge of the mathematicians Aug p39

Medical physics

  • MRI gets new legs Apr p5
  • Bubbles burst for hospital cleanliness May p5
  • Speedy camera aids medical imaging Jun p5
  • Isotope shortage triggers delays for patients Jul p8
  • Seeing inside bones Aug p4
  • Canadian reactor delays add to agency's troubles Aug p8
  • Threats to ultra-high-field MRI Le Bihan D Aug p16
  • Medical imaging at risk from European directive Keevil S Sep p21
  • Caught CAT-napping Moloney S Sep p21

Microscopy

  • Fermi surface unmasked Apr p4

Miscellaneous

  • Hold the front page Jan p3
  • And the survey says... Jan p3
  • Strictly no dancing Jan p3
  • Reasons to be cheerful Jan p15
  • Read your thoughts Jan p15
  • Checklists, rules and creativity Glasmacher T Jan p16
  • Science toys Crease R P Jan p19
  • Memories that stick Dryburgh P Jan p21
  • Collector's item Feb p3
  • Einstein on the buses Feb p3
  • Top job Feb p3
  • Storm in a teacup Feb p3
  • Poker face Feb p3
  • Hands-on innovation Chubb J Feb p20
  • Topological toys Little J Feb p20
  • Yours anonymously Grozier J Feb p20
  • More sticky memories Parker G Feb p21
  • A modest proposal Albrow M Feb p21
  • Comments from physicsworld.com Feb p21
  • Traveller's tales Mar p3
  • Calculators at the ready Mar p3
  • Spooky Einstein Mar p3
  • Cheers to Galileo Mar p3
  • Comments from physicsworld.com Hamill H; de Podesta M; Weidig T; Evanson N; Thomas G Mar p18
  • Imagine all the units Jones C Mar p18
  • Off to the pub Young H Mar p18
  • Quiz results Mar p18
  • In stitches Apr p3
  • Flat-packed living Apr p3
  • A year in the making Apr p3
  • Backing black swans Apr p15
  • German for physicists Stein B Apr p16
  • Comments from physicsworld.com Apr p20
  • Unitary disagreements Grozier J; Leyshon G Apr p21
  • April fools May p3
  • Comments from physicsworld.com May p22
  • Unitary own goals Maxted K May p23
  • Safe for safety? Jun p3
  • Calling all pizza tossers Jun p3
  • Shocking new twist on Rodin's "The Thinker" Jun p11
  • Boundaries of science Davies G Jun p18
  • Physics has talent Jul p3
  • Game simulates destruction according to the laws of physics Jul p13
  • Twinkle, twinkle Pye D, Crundwell R Jul p21
  • Unusual units Paix D Jul p21
  • Rap riposte Sep p3
  • An amazing tribute Sep p3
  • Your best unit Crease R P Sep p19
  • Language lore Marks J M Sep p23
  • Last call for units Randall S; Rosen R; Jones C; Bean L W; Lane F Sep p23

Nanotechnology

  • Repulsive Casimir effect captured Feb p4
  • Bacteria could provide alternative energy supply Feb p5
  • Nanowires stick to chips Feb p5
  • The rise and fall of a physics fraudster Reich E S May p24
  • The world's smallest box Jun p5
  • Minister unveils new nanotech centres Jun p10
  • The flaw in Planck's law Sep p4
  • Portugal opens novel nanotech lab Sep p10

Nuclear physics

  • Rare-isotope facility goes to Michigan Jan p6
  • Checklists, rules and creativity Glasmacher T Jan p16
  • Nucleus does the double Jun p4
  • The map and trap rap Aug p3
  • The Copernicium revolution Aug p9

Nuclear power

  • A fresh look at nuclear Hay S and Kelk M Jan p38
  • New reactor to destroy nuclear waste Mar p9
  • Sweden seeks U-turn on nuclear power Mar p9
  • US nuclear repository in jeopardy Apr p6
  • Future nuclear plants could put pressure on helium supply May p11
  • Domeward bound Jun p10
  • Sweden picks site for waste repository Jul p8
  • Bang goes the waste Aug p3
  • Extension for Spanish reactor fails to satisfy operator Aug p8

Nuclear weapons

Oceanography

Optics

  • Light mystery solved? Feb p4
  • Anti-reflective films look to moth eyes Mar p5
  • Curved light bends the rules May p5
  • Optical cloaks edge closer Jun p4
  • Do cells care about physics? Guck J Jul p31

Particle physics

  • SuperB machine set to study antimatter Feb p11
  • Chameleons weigh in Mar p4
  • A new frontier awaits for US particle-physics lab Mar p12
  • Top result for two Tevatron teams Apr p4
  • Peter Higgs appears on canvas Apr p7
  • Top toy May p3
  • CP violation estimated May p4
  • US neutrino experiment gets under way Jun p7
  • Neutrino beamline begins its journey from Japenese lab Jun p8
  • New light on axions Jul p4
  • Canadian neutrino lab branches out Jul p9
  • Who's new at the Zoo? Aug p3
  • Japan accelerates ahead Banks M Aug p11
  • A tale of two minds Fraser G Aug p32
  • From prairie to energy frontier Roser R Aug p36
  • The neutrino hunter Nishikawa K and Banks M Sep p12
  • Row bubbles up over particle prize Sep p13
  • Of gluons, atoms and strings Jacak B Sep p35
  • Puzzling physics Sep p41

Philosophy of science

  • Out of time Bevan J Aug p19

Physics and finance

  • The (unfortunate) complexity of the economy Bouchaud J-P Apr p28
  • Observing the economy Rosenbaum S Jul p21

Physics and religion

  • In their own words Apr p42
  • One scientist's faith Apr p42
  • A voice of dissent Apr p42
  • The Pope's scientists Cartlidge E May p12
  • Judging Galileo Hutchinson I; Brandon D; Ferguson I May p21
  • Religion explained Crease R P Aug p18

Physics and sport

  • Canoe do physics? Grove S Apr p21
  • Spot kick May p3
  • Bad golfers of the world, unite Jul p50
  • Physics tackles rugby Jul p50
  • Avast ye landlubbers Jul p50

Plasma physics

Publishing

  • Elsevier challenged over journal operations Banks M Jan p10
  • Debating open access and arXiv Prentice J; Fairlie D Jan p20
  • Funding open access Sprouse G D, Zimmermann F Mar p17
  • Web life: Cosmic Diary Mar p59
  • Doing science in the open Nielsen M May p30
  • Tweet your preprints Jun p3
  • Calling the space 'tweedia' Jul p3
  • Fledgling site challenges arXiv server Aug p9
  • Comments from physicsworld.com Aug p20
  • Focused papers get more citations Sep p10
  • Comments from physicsworld.com Sep p22

Publishing and public understanding

Quantum physics

  • Repulsive Casimir effect captured Feb p4
  • The race to build a quantum computer Bacon D Feb p26
  • Teleportation goes the distance Mar p4
  • An eye on entanglement Apr p5
  • The gambling scholar Ekert A May p36
  • The story of the quantum O'Raifeartaigh C May p44
  • China creates quantum network Jun p11
  • The quantum life Davies P Jul p24
  • Feynman's 'quantum walk' observed Aug p4
  • Stepping up to quantum computing Sep p4
  • Less reality, more security Ekert A Sep p28
  • Of gluons, atoms and strings Jacak B Sep p35
  • Dreams of a quantum pioneer Segrè G Sep p38

Research conduct and ethics

  • Physicist appeals against security revoke Jan p11
  • Physicist accused of misappropriating NASA funds Apr p11
  • In search of the black swans Buchanan M Apr p22
  • Physics and fraud May p15
  • The rise and fall of a physics fraudster Reich E S May p24
  • Swanning about Padman R; Herrod R Jun p18
  • Reflections on the Schön affair Brandon D; Santic B Jul p19
  • Fraud, misinformation and the open culture Pointon T Aug p20

Russia

  • Russia plans new generation of lunar spacecraft May p9

Science and society

Semiconductors and electronics

  • Towards the ultimate transistor Natelson D Jun p27
  • Clothes that can see Aug p5
  • Beyond the wonder material Novoselov K Aug p27

South Africa

  • Giant array faces financial and political challenges May p8

Space science and the solar system

  • Lost baggage Jan p3
  • Extreme climate change Jan p3
  • Europe and US seek collaboration on missions to Mars Jan p7
  • Detecting new Earths Schirber M Mar p8
  • New probe plots Earth's gravity field Mar p11
  • Up close and personal Williamson M Mar p33
  • Another giant leap for mankind Spudis P D Mar p40
  • NASA rocket failure delays Glory mission Apr p6
  • NASA missions: late and expensive Apr p11
  • Finland publishes space strategy Apr p11
  • China outlines lunar programme Apr p11
  • Planets under pressure Jeanloz R Apr p34
  • Toilet troubles May p3
  • US seeks to lift export ban on satellite technology May p9
  • Russia plans new generation of lunar spacecraft May p9
  • NASA maps the way for lunar return Banks M May p14
  • Astronauts give Hubble a new lease of life Jun p9
  • New NASA boss nominated Jun p9
  • Who needs the lunar breakdown services? Jul p3
  • Telescope rises to the Sun Jul p10
  • Japan completes space lab Aug p9
  • Taik no chances Sep p3
  • Launch your own space kit Sep p3
  • Europe unveils plans for UK space base Sep p7
  • Voyager heads for interstellar space Corfield R Sep p11

Superconductivity

  • The strong-correlations puzzle Quintanilla J and Hooley C Jun p32

Sweden

  • Sweden seeks U-turn on nuclear power Mar p9
  • Boost for Swedish neutron bid May p10
  • Sweden leads race to host European neutron facility Jun p8
  • Sweden picks site for waste repository Jul p8
  • Sweden bags neutron source Jul p10

UK

  • Top physics departments tumble in new RAE review Jan p8
  • New UK centres extend training for PhD students Jan p8
  • RAE wranglings provoke debate Haigh J, Bradley D, Knight P; McGrath R Feb p19
  • The ratings game Braben D W Apr p20
  • Clover and out for UK telescope May p7
  • The economic-impact fallacy Moriarty P Jun p16
  • UK physics hit by fresh funding cuts Aug p7
  • Universities give record level of support to the UK economy Aug p7
  • Braced for bad times Durrani M Aug p15
  • Supporting research in a recession Allport P Aug p19
  • How Britannia beat the waves Bridgman R Aug p38
  • Europe unveils plans for UK space base Sep p7

US

  • Rare-isotope facility goes to Michigan Jan p6
  • Obama chooses Chu as energy boss Jan p11
  • Obama signals fresh approach to science Gwynne P Feb p8
  • Stanford sets up $100m energy institute Feb p9
  • Brookhaven lab gets the nod for $900m light source Feb p10
  • US neutron source wins upgrade Feb p11
  • Science at centre stage Feb p15
  • World's biggest laser powers up Mar p7
  • A new frontier awaits for US particle-physics lab Mar p12
  • Physical science receives stimulus boost Mar p13
  • US nuclear repository in jeopardy Apr p6
  • US pays price for $500m budget blunder Apr p10
  • US seeks to lift export ban on satellite technology May p9
  • Physicist nominated for top job at Department of Energy May p11
  • US neutrino experiment gets under way Jun p7
  • Obama commits to science spending Jun p9
  • Physicist sentenced for export violation Aug p10
  • Renewable energy boosted by US stimulus cash Sep p8

Women in physics

  • Women beat men to faculty positions Jul p10