Print edition - index 2008
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Accelerators/acceleration mechanisms
- Japanese lab produces its first neutrons Jun p7
- A taste of LHC physics Gershon T Jun p22
American Physical Society
- Letters that made a journal Jun p12
Applications
- Holography gets smart Lowe C and Larbey C Feb p21
- Invisibility rules the waves Lavers C Mar p21
- New test for reactors Apr p5
- Insect inspiration McIntosh A and Beheshti N Apr p29
- Audio's holy grail May p3
- Radar matters May p22
- Dreaming in plastic Korzhov M, Shikler R and Andelman D Jul p29
Art and science
- Artistic gravitas Aug p3
- Fallout exposes fake art Aug p5
Astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology
- Santa spotted? Jan p3
- Axion experiments called into doubt Jan p4
- Probe likens young Venus to Earth Jan p5
- Intel founder gives £200m for telescope Jan p8
- Nobel laureate parts with winnings Jan p9
- Big burst fails to make waves Feb p4
- Dark-matter map illuminates dark energy's push Feb p5
- Telescope project gets $30m in gifts Feb p10
- MAGIC clarifications Feb p19
- Radio giants come into focus Dorminey B Feb p27
- A star-studded adventure Feb p37
- Venus: our non-identical twin Taylor F Mar p31
- Five-year WMAP data give thumbs up to cosmic model Apr p5
- Doubt cast on wet Mars Apr p5
- Jodrell Bank faces possible closure Apr p8
- Arizona telescope sees double Apr p11
- The search for astroengineers Dorminey B Apr p32
- Underwater telescope hunts neutrinos May p9
- Telescope network in seventh heaven May p10
- NASA extends Cassini mission May p10
- GLAST goes for blast-off McEnery J, Ritz S and Gehrels N May p31
- Save our telescope Jun p3
- Dark-matter claims disputed Jun p4
- Giant array starts to take shape Jun p7
- Galaxy quest Jun p39
- Dying star spotted Jul p4
- Gamma-ray observatory takes off Jul p10
- A light in the dark? Cartlidge E Aug p23
Atomic and molecular physics
- Coulomb test proposed Jan p4
- Single atoms feel the force Apr p4
- Laser physicist looks to the Sun Apr p12
- TEM sees the light Aug p4
Australia
- Labor government tackles science Jan p9
- Australia seeks free science debate Apr p11
Awards and prizes
- Quantum physicist joins Japan's elite Feb p13
- Rise of the dragon Aug p14
- Superfluidity: three people, two papers, one prize Griffin A Aug p27
- Life-changing innovations Aug p47
Biophysics
- Flytrap inspires optics Jan p5
- The optimistic heretic Jan p12
- Holography gets smart Lowe C and Larbey C Feb p21
- Insect inspiration McIntosh A and Beheshti N Apr p29
- An emotional test May p5
- Ozone could clean up Jun p5
- Shedding light on life O'Shea P Jun p29
- Shrimp vision polarized Jul p5
- Nanotubes grow bone Jul p5
Books reviewed
- Healing the mental scars Jan p34
- Taking the trip of a lifetime Pegg D Jan p36
- Rocket man Jan p37
- Law and order Jan p37
- Food for thought Jan p37
- Thinking big Feb p36
- A star-studded adventure Feb p37
- Something from nothing Feb p37
- Divine inspiration Feb p37
- Joyriding through physics Feb p37
- The story of gravity Apr p36
- Stories behind the inventions Apr p37
- Quantum theory for everyone Apr p37
- For old times' sake Apr p37
- Mission impossible Fraser G May p40
- Echoes and images May p42
- Keeping it in the family Jul p42
- Confound your intuition Jul p43
- Guessing games Jul p43
- The cost of going nuclear Jul p43
- Postmodernism, politics and religion Anderson P Aug p40
- List mania Aug p42
- The new space age Aug p43
- Surviving academic life Aug p43
- The mathematical rabbit hole Aug p43
Canada
- Reactor shutdown delays medical procedures Jan p8
- Canada replaces nuclear-safety chief Feb p10
- Canada attempts to lure top minds Apr p9
- Theory institute appoints new head Jun p9
- Canadian institute gets cash boost Jul p10
Careers and employment
- Generating job options Eberlein J Jan p38
- Careers and people Jan p39
- Once a physicist: Tony Hey Jan p40
- Giving students a taste of research Feb p16
- Physics for a safer world Wilson C Feb p38
- Once a physicist: Chris Rapley Feb p39
- Careers and people Feb p40
- The best years of your life? Jeandron M Mar p40
- Once a physicist: Salvator Roberto Amendolia Mar p42
- Back to school Gomez E Apr p40
- Careers and people Apr p41
- Once a physicist: Kris Gopalakrishnan Apr p42
- Success is in the bank Vincent-Humphreys de R May p44
- Once a physicist: Ian Leigh May p45
- Physicists without borders Jeandron M Jun p42
- Seeking new space explorers Jun p43
- A right royal appointment Jun p43
- Movers and shakers Jun p43
- Once a physicist: Eddie Morland Jun p44
- Building for the future Eastwell A Jul p46
- Once a physicist: Frank Reed Jul p47
- Quasar pioneers rewarded Jul p48
- Europe promises better conditions Jul p48
- Top young physicists recognized Jul p48
- Movers and shakers Jul p48
- What grey ceiling? Aug p21
- Surviving academic life Aug p43
- Secure your future Acton J Aug p46
- Keeping EU researchers in touch Aug p47
- Life-changing innovations Aug p47
- High honours for low temperatures Aug p47
- Movers and shakers Aug p47
- Once a physicist: Al Powell Aug p48
CERN
- CERN reveals next director general Jan p9
- Full steam ahead Chalmers M Mar p12
- The best job in physics? Mar p15
- Courting controversy May p3
- Budget cuts threaten UK's role in two LHC experiments May p11
- CERN opens doors to dignitaries Jun p10
- Hard up Jun p15
- A taste of LHC physics Gershon T Jun p22
- The LHC's a stage Jul p3
China
- China set to join world synchrotron elite May p10
Climate change and the environment
- The optimistic heretic Jan p12
- The heat is on Murray T, Rutt I and Vaughan D May p24
- Climate models prevail Jul p4
Computation and software
- Computer concerns Jan p17
- The enigmatic snowflake Libbrecht K Jan p19
- Once a physicist: Tony Hey Jan p40
- Fortran experiences Feb p19
- Glass arrested on the road to crystallization Aug p5
Condensed matter
- Wet sand goes with flow Jan p5
- The enigmatic snowflake Libbrecht K Jan p19
- The spintronics challenge Bland T, Lee K and Steinmüller Jan p24
- Monopoles no ice Feb p4
- Light mystery solved Apr p4
- Glass arrested on the road to crystallization Aug p5
Education
- Dancing with physics Barber and Popalisky Jan p29
- Lightning telly Apr p3
- Is GCSE science a waste of time? Apr p18
- Physics of beer? Apr p18
- Back to school Gomez E Apr p40
- GCSE science — a dual problem May p22
- The world's youngest professor? Jun p3
- Italian school students enjoy the ride Jun p10
- Free textbooks for all Jun p16
- GCSE science debate Jun p20
- Seeking an African Einstein Jul p11
- Breaking the grey ceiling Jul p18
- GCSE lacks diversity Jul p21
- Curriculum concerns Aug p21
Energy
- Italian village leads lighting revolution Jan p10
- Generating job options Eberlein J Jan p38
- UK government opts for nuclear power Feb p10
- Laser physicist looks to the Sun Apr p12
- Wave power made easy Aug p5
- Italy trials solar-thermal power plant Aug p10
- India tests merits of thorium reactor Aug p10
- Biofuel considerations Aug p21
Europe
- Telescope network in seventh heaven May p10
- Europe plans world-beating laser May p10
- Spanish synchrotron facility warms up Aug p9
- Fame or footnote? Aug p17
- Turning Europe's innovation dream into a working reality Aug p18
European Space Agency
- Probe likens young Venus to Earth Jan p5
European Union
- Towards a European funding union May p18
Facilities
- KEK outlines bold future for article physics Feb p10
- Diamond is on budget Feb p19
- Jodrell Bank faces possible closure Apr p8
- Sowing the seeds of SESAME Apr p16
- Neutrons probe magnetic fields May p5
- LIGO upgrade boosts search for gravitational waves May p8
- China set to join world synchrotron elite May p10
- ...as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory lays off staff Jul p8
- Neutron lab hits second target Jul p12
- Spanish synchrotron facility warms up Aug p9
Fluid dynamics
- Wet sand goes with flow Jan p5
- Insect inspiration McIntosh A and Beheshti N Apr p29
- A passion for boats Crease R P Jun p18
France
- Protests force rethink on CNRS reforms Aug p8
- Sarkozy plans new nuclear plant Aug p11
Fusion
- UK physicist takes key fusion post Jan p9
- US halts Princeton University fusion facility Jul p13
Geophysics
- US unveils roadmap for geophysics Apr p9
Germany
- Healing the mental scars Jan p34
- Germany gets largest ever MRI scanner Jul p10
- New facility can recreate Sun's corona Jul p10
- Germany unites behind national academy Aug p9
Gravity and general relativity
- Warp speed ahead Jan p11
- Taking the trip of a lifetime Pegg D Jan p36
- Dark-matter map illuminates dark energy's push Feb p5
- A glow on the horizon Apr p14
- The story of gravity Apr p36
- LIGO upgrade boosts search for gravitational waves May p8
History of physics
- In a parallel world Jan p3
- The last of its breed Crease RP Jan p16
- Healing the mental scars Jan p34
- A passion for history Feb p11
- Real thoughts Feb p15
- Co-operation – not competition – wins race Feb p19
- Spin pioneers Feb p20
- William Cavendish: the man behind the lab Constable A Feb p30
- A remarkable legacy Parkinson S Feb p34
- A mind of her own Crease R P Mar p17
- John Bardeen: an extraordinary physicist Hoddeson L Apr p22
- The story of gravity Apr p36
- The Bohr paradox Crease R May p20
- Record bid for Einstein letter Jun p13
- Remembering Wheeler Jun p21
- Henri Becquerel: serendipitous brilliance Margaritondo G Jun p26
- Galileo's wondrous telescope Jun p37
- Groomed for success Jun p39
- Radar history Jul p21
- Luck and genius Jul p21
- Keeping it in the family Jul p42
- List mania Aug p42
India
- Physicist sets up pioneering science park in India May p11
Industry and innovation
- Italian village leads lighting revolution Jan p10
- Firm offers $1.6bn lift into space Feb p9
- Car companies look to generate power from waste heat Apr p10
- Royal Society offers funds for technology start-ups Apr p10
- Industrial concerns Apr p15
- Once a physicist: Kris Gopalakrishnan Apr p42
- Seeking a new symbol of innovation Apr p52
- EADS Astrium to buy Surrey Satellites May p9
- Building for the future Eastwell A Jul p46
- Wave power made easy Aug p5
- IBM forms new nanotech hub Aug p9
- Bright future for plastic Aug p11
- Fame or footnote? Aug p17
- Turning Europe's innovation dream into a working reality Aug p18
International
- Sowing the seeds of SESAME Apr p16
- Giant array starts to take shape Jun p7
- ITER launch faces two-year delay Jul p7
- Seeking an African Einstein Jul p11
Ireland
- Dublin centre sees light of day Jan p10
Italy
- Italian village leads lighting revolution Jan p10
- Physicists count the cost of opposition to the Pope Feb p8
- Once a physicist: Salvator Roberto Amendolia Mar p42
- Italy flags scientific shortcomings Apr p11
- Italian school students enjoy the ride Jun p10
- Galileo's wondrous telescope Jun p37
- Italy makes a return to the nuclear fold Jul p9
- DAFNE upgrade leads the way to B-meson superfactory Jul p9
Japan
- KEK outlines bold future for article physics Feb p10
- Quantum physicist joins Japan's elite Feb p13
- Japan places hope in Space Station Apr p7
- Japanese lab produces its first neutrons Jun p7
- Sacred geometry Jun p39
Lasers and optics
- Europe plans world-beating laser May p10
Lateral thoughts
- Post-modern physics, bathtub style Jan p48
- The Institute of Psychics? Feb p48
- Seeking a new symbol of innovation Apr p52
- An outreach adventure May p56
- Inspiring students Jun p21
- Beware the abdabs Jun p52
- The last lecture Jul p56
- Conferences revisited Aug p56
Light sources, synchotrons and free-electron lasers
- Sowing the seeds of SESAME Apr p16
- UK unveils plans for new light source May p10
- China set to join world synchrotron elite May p10
Low-temperature physics
- Inspired thinking Chalmers M Aug p12
- Rise of the dragon Aug p14
- Superfluidity: three people, two papers, one prize Griffin A Aug p27
Mathematical and statistical physics
- Constant failure Crease R P Feb p18
- A mind of her own Crease R P Mar p17
- Sacred geometry Jun p39
- Breaking through Jul p17
- A gathering for Gardner Crease R P Jul p20
- Symmetry's physical dimension Maxfield S Jul p34
- Confound your intuition Jul p43
- The mathematical rabbit hole Aug p43
Medical physics
- Reactor shutdown delays medical procedures Jan p8
- Cloak of silence revealed Feb p5
- Canada replaces nuclear-safety chief Feb p10
- Physicist sets up pioneering science park in India May p11
- Germany gets largest ever MRI scanner Jul p10
Metrology
- Once a physicist: Ian Leigh May p45
Microscopy
- Single atoms feel the force Apr p4
- TEM sees the light Aug p4
Miscellaneous
- Twin paradox Jan p3
- Room service Feb p3
- Showered with surprises Feb p3
- More physics twins Feb p20
- Don't panic – bathe! Feb p20
- Invisibility rules the waves Lavers C Mar p21
- 2π or not 2π Apr p18
- Seeing double Apr p18
- Lab architecture Crease R P Apr p19
- Einstein gets in the zone May p3
- Energy, mass and Mariah May p3
- Coming clean May p23
- Eddington, starring the Doctor Jun p3
- Save our telescope Jun p3
- Groomed for success Jun p39
- Code crackers wanted Jul p3
- Moving walls Jul p21
- Watch your speed Aug p3
- Pi in the sky Aug p3
Nanotechnology
- World's smallest bible Feb p3
- Single atoms feel the force Apr p4
- 'Pine tree' nanowires do the Eshelby twist Jun p5
- Nanotubes grow bone Jul p5
- IBM forms new nanotech hub Aug p9
Nuclear physics
- Radioactivity doubles up Blank B May p35
- Blog life: Entropy Bound Jun p40
- Fallout exposes fake art Aug p5
- US teams vie for rare-isotope facility Aug p7
Nuclear power
- Generating job options Eberlein J Jan p38
- UK government opts for nuclear power Feb p10
- New test for reactors Apr p5
- Slow clean-up for fast reactor May p12
- Row erupts over US firm's plan to import nuclear waste Jun p8
- Decontamination puzzle Jun p20
- Physicists without borders Jeandron M Jun p42
- Italy makes a return to the nuclear fold Jul p9
- The cost of going nuclear Jul p43
- India tests merits of thorium reactor Aug p10
- Sarkozy plans new nuclear plant Aug p11
Nuclear weapons
- A remarkable legacy Parkinson S Feb p34
- Physicists without borders Jeandron M Jun p42
Obituaries
- Spin pioneer dies Jan p9
- Arthur C Clarke dies at 90 Apr p11
- Giant of physics John Wheeler dies May p7
- Passing of a legend May p17
- Willis Lamb: 1913–2008 Jul p13
- Japanese particle-physics leader dies Aug p13
- Inverted conceit Aug p22
Optics
- Flytrap inspires optics Jan p5
- Holography gets smart Lowe C and Larbey C Feb p21
- Light mystery solved Apr p4
- A glow on the horizon Apr p14
- Auroral light is polarized Jun p5
- Shrimp vision polarized Jul p5
Particle physics
- Axion experiments called into doubt Jan p4
- KEK outlines bold future for article physics Feb p10
- Full steam ahead Chalmers M Mar p12
- The best job in physics? Mar p15
- Give your favourite particle a home Apr p3
- Budget cuts threaten UK's role in two LHC experiments May p11
- ILC is best bar none Jun p3
- A taste of LHC physics Gershon T Jun p22
- The LHC's a stage Jul p3
- Particle physicists told to confront new challenges... Jul p8
- DAFNE upgrade leads the way to B-meson superfactory Jul p9
- The lightest bottomonia Aug p4
- Europe prepares for the ILC Aug p11
- Japanese particle-physics leader dies Aug p13
Philosophy of science
- Food for thought Jan p37
Physics and finance
- Risky business James J Apr p38
- Success is in the bank Vincent-Humphreys de R May p44
Physics and religion
- The optimistic heretic Jan p12
- Physicists count the cost of opposition to the Pope Feb p8
- Divine inspiration Feb p37
- Templeton Prize again goes to physicist Apr p8
- A voice for Muslims Jun p11
- Record bid for Einstein letter Jun p13
- The last lecture Jul p56
- A question of trust Crease R P Aug p20
Physics and sport
- Baseball on a high? Apr p3
- Football's new wave Aug p3
Plasma physics
- ITER launch faces two-year delay Jul p7
- New facility can recreate Sun's corona Jul p10
Publishing
- Blog life: The Quantum Pontiff Jan p35
- Blog life: Dynamics of Cats Feb p35
- Blog Life: Nanoscale Views Mar p39
- Hottest researchers named Apr p11
- Blog life: Life as a physicist Apr p39
- Mind the hack Cartwright J May p14
- Embargoed science May p17
- Blog Life: Star Stryder May p43
- Blog life: Chris Lintott's Universe Jul p45
Publishing and public understanding
- The last of its breed Crease RP Jan p16
Quantum physics
- In a parallel world Jan p3
- Blog life: The Quantum Pontiff Jan p35
- Quantum theory for everyone Apr p37
- Single photons in space May p4
- Quantum communication set for space Jul p11
- A quantum renaissance Aspelmeyer M Jul p22
- Remapping the quantum frontier Monroe C and Lukin M Aug p32
Research conduct and ethics
- Scientist to appeal misconduct charge Aug p11
Science and society
- Dublin centre sees light of day Jan p10
- Physdamentalism Jan p17
- Screen star Feb p3
- Doing physics in Second Life Medeiros J Feb p12
- Second thoughts Feb p15
- The Atomium marks a half century Apr p7
- Italy flags scientific shortcomings Apr p11
- Australia seeks free science debate Apr p11
- Secure your future Acton J Aug p46
Semiconductors and electronics
- Spin pioneer dies Jan p9
- The spintronics challenge Bland T, Lee K and Steinmüller Jan p24
- Phononics gets hot Wang L and Li B Mar p27
- John Bardeen: an extraordinary physicist Hoddeson L Apr p22
- The memory race is on May p5
- Dawn of the memristor Jun p4
- Combination technique shows the strain Jul p5
- Dreaming in plastic Korzhov M, Shikler R and Andelman D Jul p29
- Bright future for plastic Aug p11
Sociology of Science
- Spot the physicist Jones R Jun p36
- Postmodernism, politics and religion Anderson P Aug p40
South Africa
- Free textbooks for all Jun p16
Space science and the solar system
- Warp speed ahead Jan p11
- Satellite myths Jan p17
- Rocket man Jan p37
- Firm offers $1.6bn lift into space Feb p9
- Venus: our non-identical twin Taylor F Mar p31
- Space cast Apr p3
- Japan places hope in Space Station Apr p7
- The search for astroengineers Dorminey B Apr p32
- NASA science boss quits amid cash woes May p8
- EADS Astrium to buy Surrey Satellites May p9
- NASA extends Cassini mission May p10
- GLAST goes for blast-off McEnery J, Ritz S and Gehrels N May p31
- Solar spacecraft cleared for take-off Jun p10
- Rocket man Jun p38
- Facts of life Jun p39
- Toilet humour Jul p3
- Saucer surveillance Jul p3
- The International Space Station receives its largest science module Jul p7
- Quantum communication set for space Jul p11
- NASA prepares for its next half century Jul p14
- The new space age Aug p43
Students
- The best years of your life? Jeandron M Mar p40
Superconductivity
- John Bardeen: an extraordinary physicist Hoddeson L Apr p22
- Iron rocks the high-Tc world May p4
- High-temperature superconducting wires power up Jun p8
Surface science
- Single atoms feel the force Apr p4
Switzerland
- IBM forms new nanotech hub Aug p9
UK
- Funding bombshell hits UK physics Jan p7
- The £80m black hole Jan p15
- UK launches review into physics Feb p10
- Diamond is on budget Feb p19
- Jodrell Bank faces possible closure Apr p8
- Royal Society offers funds for technology start-ups Apr p10
- UK unveils plans for new light source May p10
- Budget cuts threaten UK's role in two LHC experiments May p11
- Save our telescope Jun p3
- Theory institute appoints new head Jun p9
- A voice for Muslims Jun p11
- Hard up Jun p15
- GCSE science debate Jun p20
- Decontamination puzzle Jun p20
- UK set to seal fate of projects Jul p10
- Neutron lab hits second target Jul p12
- Projects reprieved – but cuts still loom Aug p8
US
- Moneymaker Jan p3
- US physicists face tough year ahead Feb p7
- Physicist wins seat in US Congress Apr p9
- High-temperature superconducting wires power up Jun p8
- Row erupts over US firm's plan to import nuclear waste Jun p8
- Laureates hope letter to Bush will reverse budget woes Jun p9
- Physicist named NASA science chief Jun p10
- Solar spacecraft cleared for take-off Jun p10
- Particle physicists told to confront new challenges... Jul p8
- ...as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory lays off staff Jul p8
- US halts Princeton University fusion facility Jul p13
- NASA prepares for its next half century Jul p14
- US teams vie for rare-isotope facility Aug p7
- Supplemental bill saves staff lay-offs Aug p7
- Carbon-capture plant wins reprieve Aug p11