Print edition - index 2010

Accelerators/acceleration mechanisms

• Back to the future Clery D Apr p10
• New accelerator to bridge isotope gap Aug p8

Acoustics

• Hark! Sound lasers Apr p4

American Physical Society

• APS gives free journal access at US public libraries Sep p8

Applications

• Plasmas join the battle for hospital cleanliness Jan p4
• Paper batteries Jan p5
• Spider's web inspires fibres for industry Mar p5
• Tiny desalination device could help aid efforts May p5
• Fighting forgery with butterfly colour Jul p5
• A global vision for vision Mayor L Jul p29
• Salty old scrolls Aug p4
• Nanotubes boost battery performance Aug p5
• Getting beneath the skin of Da Vinci's famous enigma Sep p5
• Terahertz scanner finds its focus Sep p5
• Crease R P Sep p19
• Self-healing solar cells Oct p4
• Electronic nose senses sweet smell of success Oct p5

Art and science

• Royal Society turns 350 as new Hawking portrait is unveiled Jan p13
• Once a physicist: David Roy Feb p46
• Showcasing the intersection between art and science Mar p13
• Nobel stars on stage Apr p3
• Ouellette J Jun p42
• Einstein's universe caught on film Aug p9

Astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology

• Physicists uncover possible hints of dark matter Jan p7
• NASA sky surveyor launches to map the universe Jan p8
• Crease R P Jan p19
• Dark energy: how the paradigm shifted Calder L, Lahav O Jan p32
• Astronomy for all Little S, Little I Jan p42
• Careers and people Jan p44
• Are you out there? Feb p3
• Honing in on habitable planets Feb p4
• Black hole struggles to swallow its Milky Way Feb p5
• ALMA sharpens its vision Feb p11
• Feb p41
• Planet hunting brought down to Earth Mar p5
• Science and space: a view from the top Durrani M Mar p9
• Astronomer suspended Mar p9
• WISE opens its eyes Mar p10
• Cassini extends Saturn tour Mar p10
• Asteroid search needs more cash Mar p10
• A new view of our volatile star Cartlidge E Mar p12
• Dark and stormy Leadstone S Mar p27
• Davies P Mar p28
• Getting intimate with Mars Elachi C Mar p35
• A multiverse of probabilities Freivogel B Mar p40
• Mysterious 'dark flow' at the edge of the universe Apr p5
• Site chosen for European superscope Apr p8
• Top South African astronomer reinstated Apr p8
• China watches as NASA falters Williamson M Apr p18
• Comments from physicsworld.com Apr p20
• Apr p41
• May p53
• How small is a dwarf? Jun p5
• US boosts X-ray facilities Jun p9
• Dark-matter 'no result' under fire Cartwright J Jun p10
• The clock ticks for cosmic detector Cartlidge E Jun p12
• Removing the doubt Jun p15
• Crease R P Jun p19
• Airborne infrared telescope makes its maiden flight Jul p6
• Queen opens European superscope Jul p10
• Asteroid probe lands in Australia Jul p10
• Comments from physicsworld.com Jul p20
• Jul p35
• Planck captures the universe coming to life Aug p5
• Further delays hit troubled $2bn cosmic-ray detector Aug p6
• Prospecting beyond Earth Dorminey B Aug p12
• Crease R P Aug p19
• A rule of thumb for dwarf planets Rau R Aug p20
• Seeing more clearly Greenaway A Aug p33
• US astronomers unveil 10-year plan Sep p6
• Search for Martian life tools up Sep p9
• Boost for US superscope Sep p9
• Pinning down a dark-matter signal Smith P Sep p21
• Voit M Sep p24
• Fine structure may not be so constant Oct p4
• Supermassive black holes spawned by galactic merger Oct p5
• Facial scarring reveals that the Moon is shrinking Oct p5
• Chinese astronomers target Antarctica Oct p7
• Mexican scientists build novel cosmic-ray detector Oct p8
• Photographers shine a light on the universe Oct p12
• Oct p58
• Strange stars in the dark Nov p4
• Lunar orbiter plots path for robotic lander Nov p10
• Title A Nov p24
• Discovering many worlds Byrne P Nov p36
• Nov p43

Atomic and molecular physics

• Light stalls in ultracold conditions Jan p4
• Beyond ultrafast Cavalieri A May p47
• May p53

Australia

• Crash in Australian outback ends NASA ballooning season Jun p11
• Asteroid probe lands in Australia Jul p10
• Launching the wireless revolution Pockley P Jul p12
• Australian gravitational-wave detector gathers pace Nov p10

Awards and prizes

• The wrong London Griffith H, Tong K Jan p21
• Entanglement pioneers bag Wolf prize Mar p6
• Oceanographer scoops Crafoord prize Mar p9
• It's all gong wrong Jun p3
• Graphene pioneers scoop Nobel prize Nov p6
• Carl Wieman accepts White House job Nov p9
• Nobel glory Nov p15
• Crease R P Nov p19
• Gongs away Harris M Nov p46

Biophysics

• Switching snail-shell spirals Jan p5
• Ennos R Jan p28
• Colizza V, Vespignani A Feb p26
• Life on the borders Barry E Feb p44
• May p53
• Making life Jul p26
• Ennos R Aug p22
• Gordon J Aug p26
• Seeing more clearly Greenaway A Aug p33
• Stumpf M P H Aug p38
• Left-handed beetles Aug p52
• Making an impact in biology Endres R G Sep p16
• Electronic nose senses sweet smell of success Oct p5
• Williams P Oct p52
• Unravelling the secrets inside silk worms Nov p5
• Flexible LEDs bring light to fingertips Nov p5
• Of wool and hagfish Hearle J Nov p22

Books reviewed

• Bardi J S Jan p38
• Allison W Jan p40
• Jan p41
• Fraser G Feb p40
• Feb p41
• Leonard A Feb p42
• Esposito S Mar p44
• Socolar J Apr p38
• Harris M Apr p40
• Apr p41
• Close F Jun p40
• Ouellette J Jun p42
• Jun p43
• Ellis J Jul p34
• Coleman Miller M Jul p36
• Jul p37
• Stumpf M P H Aug p38
• Foster B Aug p40
• Aug p41
• In a spin Stacey P Sep p21
• Greene L H Sep p42
• Benestad R Sep p44
• Sep p46
• Williams P Oct p52
• Oct p58
• Parker A Nov p42
• Robock A Nov p44
• Nov p45

Canada

• Canadian science sees modest rise Apr p8
• New accelerator to bridge isotope gap Aug p8

Careers and employment

• Brain drain leads to more physicists heading to the US Jan p11
• Astronomy for all Little S, Little I Jan p42
• Once a physicist: Tom Wanne Jan p44
• Careers and people Jan p44
• Life on the borders Barry E Feb p44
• Careers and people Feb p45
• Once a physicist: David Roy Feb p46
• Protecting the future Davies E Mar p48
• Once a physicist: Amira Sa'id Mar p50
• Careers and people Mar p50
• Curating the space–time continuum Boyle A Apr p42
• Once a physicist: B S Prakash Apr p43
• Careers and people Apr p44
• Supporting laser science Ellmann H May p58
• Once a physicist: Fausto Morales May p59
• Careers and people May p60
• Building a better lecture Taber K Jun p44
• Once a physicist: Marianne Dyson Jun p46
• Careers and people Jun p46
• It's a family affair Jul p9
• Big lasers, tiny circuits Rokitski S Jul p38
• Once a physicist: Jean Boulton Jul p39
• Careers and people Jul p40
• China targets top talent and plans 100 new labs Aug p9
• Climatologist cleared of misconduct Aug p9
• Aug p42
• A new model Master's Harris M Aug p44
• Once a physicist: John Gottman Aug p46
• Careers and people Aug p46
• Cash shortage derails nuclear forensics Sep p7
• Comments from physicsworld.com Sep p22
• From the universe to the Internet Cogan P Sep p48
• Careers and people Sep p49
• Once a physicist: Liv Boeree Sep p50
• Playing it safe with reactors Yule M Oct p60
• Once a physicist: John Hemming Oct p61
• Careers and people Oct p63
• Gongs away Harris M Nov p46
• Once a physicist: David Rosenthal Nov p48
• Careers and people Nov p48

CERN

• Large Hadron Collider becomes the world's mightiest Jan p7
• CERN collisions light up Copenhagen Feb p10
• Higgs hunters face long haul Chalmers M Mar p11
• Mar p45
• The LHC and the law Apr p19
• Dealing with doomsday Crease R P Apr p32
• The jokes are on CERN May p3
• LHC ramps up its search for the Higgs May p7
• Welcome to the particle universe Jul p7
• Going global Banks M Aug p10
• Case dismissed Oct p3
• CERN faces €260m budget cuts Oct p6
• CERN unveils giant mural of the ATLAS experiment Nov p13
• Franc talk on CERN Blair W Nov p23

Chaos, complexity and nonlinearity

• Complexity made simple Feb p15
• A networked world Buchanan M, Caldarelli G Feb p22
• Colizza V, Vespignani A Feb p26
• Following the money Brockmann D Feb p31
• Simplicity and complexity Crutchfield J, Wiesner K Feb p36
• Fraser G Feb p40
• Leonard A Feb p42
• Feb p43
• Socolar J Apr p38
• Once a physicist: Jean Boulton Jul p39
• Feathered friends follow their neighbours Aug p5

China

• Chinese duo fired for scientific fraud Feb p7
• China boosts spending as it hits fourth in world rankings Apr p9
• China watches as NASA falters Williamson M Apr p18
• China plans massive nuclear boost May p8
• China targets top talent and plans 100 new labs Aug p9
• China puts fast-neutron reactors back on track Sep p9
• Asia calling Sep p15
• Chinese astronomers target Antarctica Oct p7

Climate change and the environment

• Communicating climate change Kalaugher L Jan p16
• Physicists' role in the climate debate Ridley B; Tolfree D Jan p21
• Spy agency shares data on climate change Feb p10
• More views on climate Danson R; Tuppen C; Catterall A Feb p20
• Leonard A Feb p42
• Separating science from propaganda Klepfish E; Sugrue M; Sloan T, Wolfendale A Mar p23
• Concerns raised over climate submission Banks M Apr p12
• A question of trust Apr p15
• Climate enquiry clears researchers May p10
• Top climatologist faces 'witch hunt' Jun p6
• Climatologist cleared of misconduct Aug p9
• Comments from physicsworld.com Aug p20
• Cities attract cyclones Sep p5
• US resets carbon-capture project Sep p10
• Not cool with cooling Blain B Sep p22
• Benestad R Sep p44
• Sep p46
• Science academies urge IPCC revamp Oct p7
• Judge rejects climate 'fraud' case Oct p11
• APS responds to climate-change accusations Nov p11
• Robock A Nov p44

Computation and software

• Zonal swishing in the Earth's soft core Mar p5
• Fenton F H Mar p46
• Supermassive black holes spawned by galactic merger Oct p5

Condensed matter

• In high spirits Sep p3
• Welcome 'straintronics' Sep p4
• Hewlett-Packard brings 'memristor' to market Oct p11
• Graphene pioneers scoop Nobel prize Nov p6

Denmark

• CERN collisions light up Copenhagen Feb p10

Education

• France's grandes écoles accused of elitism Feb p11
• Promoting education from the bottom up Page M Feb p20
• Lecturing the lecturers Osborne J Feb p20
• Set our Master's degrees free Padman R Apr p16
• Seeking answers on lecturer training Apr p20
• Building a better lecture Taber K Jun p44

Energy

• Kicking the oil addiction Vilenchik Y, Peled E, Andelman D Jan p22
• Moroccan solar-thermal plant planned Feb p11
• The trouble with hydrogen fuel cells Clar R Mar p25
• Measuring hot air Apr p3
• Spin-out puts new spin on wind-energy technology May p8
• China plans massive nuclear boost May p8
• Comments from physicsworld.com May p14
• Saudi Arabia signals shift away from oil Jun p6
• First US offshore wind farm gets government go-ahead Jun p8
• Jul p37
• Obama boosts solar power Aug p9
• US physicists call for changes to nuclear licensing Aug p11
• Ennos R Aug p22
• US resets carbon-capture project Sep p10
• Japan trials power and fresh water from the oceans Oct p12
• Burning ideas of a nuclear visionary Durrani M Oct p15
• Enter the thorium tiger Chalmers M Oct p40
• Poo power Nov p3

Europe

• New boss for European science Jan p9
• Breaking the vacuum Banks M May p12
• Scientists attack European MRI rules Aug p7

European Space Agency

• Europe's ice mission successfully blasts off May p9
• Radiation fears stalk stellar mission Jul p6
• Planck captures the universe coming to life Aug p5
• Search for Martian life tools up Sep p9

European Union

• Europe plugs ITER cash gap Sep p8

Facilities

• Breakthrough at NIF 'unlikely' in 2010 May p7
• Dunne M May p28
• Crumbling research labs could risk future NASA missions Jun p11

Fluid dynamics

• Zonal swishing in the Earth's soft core Mar p5
• Cities attract cyclones Sep p5
• Swimming algae cause a stir in their local environment Nov p5

France

• Stimulus for French research Jan p9
• France's grandes écoles accused of elitism Feb p11
• France dreams of its own 'Silicon Valley' Aug p9

Fusion

• Right on track Feb p3
• Jump-starting the fusion revolution James P Feb p21
• New fusion director inherits delays on ITER project Mar p7
• UK fusion breakthrough revealed at last Evans R Mar p23
• Tokamak upgrade provides first step for 20-year UK plan Apr p7
• Breakthrough at NIF 'unlikely' in 2010 May p7
• Dunne M May p28
• Berlusconi and Putin back novel device Jun p9
• Construction begins, but ITER's costs spiral Jul p10
• Europe plugs ITER cash gap Sep p8
• Cowley S Oct p46

Geophysics

• Zonal swishing in the Earth's soft core Mar p5
• Geophysicists investigate giant hole in Guatemala Jul p5
• The Earth's random walk Jul p5
• Scientists face trial over L'Aquila quake Jul p9
• Support for researchers on shaky ground Lazarus M Aug p20

Germany

• New German ion-therapy centre treats its first patients Feb p7
• Focused on the future Banks M Jul p11
• Max Planck Society expands into Asia Aug p7
• Reactors thrown an extended lifeline Oct p6

Gravity and general relativity

• Gravity: friend or foe? Wright P Apr p52
• May p53
• Coleman Miller M Jul p36
• European satellite releases first global gravity map Aug p13
• In a spin Stacey P Sep p21
• Einstein's twin paradox in action Nov p4
• Australian gravitational-wave detector gathers pace Nov p10

History of physics

• Dark energy: how the paradigm shifted Calder L, Lahav O Jan p32
• Bardi J S Jan p38
• Esposito S Mar p44
• Mar p47
• Majorana's legacy Apr p20
• Perkowitz S May p16
• And then there was light Rigby P May p23
• Light fantastic May p34
• The day Einstein died Jun p15
• Barabasi A-L Jun p22
• General Motors sued for 'denigrating' Einstein's image Jul p7
• Einstein's universe caught on film Aug p9
• Aug p41
• Putting the fizz into physics Mills A Sep p60
• Discovering many worlds Byrne P Nov p36

India

• Elephants stamp out neutrino-observatory plans Jan p9
• Enter the thorium tiger Chalmers M Oct p40
• Site for Indian Neutrino Observatory gets go-ahead Nov p11

Industry and innovation

• Kicking the oil addiction Vilenchik Y, Peled E, Andelman D Jan p22
• Philips produces colour electronic paper Feb p5
• Flexible electronics enters the e-reader market Feb p8
• Galileo satellite deals start launch race Mar p7
• Helium sell-off risks future supply Mar p10
• Bell Labs launches expansion in Ireland Mar p10
• Spin-out puts new spin on wind-energy technology May p8
• And then there was light Rigby P May p23
• The bubble legacy Hecht J May p36
• Going for green Extance A May p43
• Revealing explosives with a puff of air Jun p5
• General Motors sued for 'denigrating' Einstein's image Jul p7
• SpaceX takes pole position in commercial space race Jul p8
• Launching the wireless revolution Pockley P Jul p12
• Unsung heroes Jul p15
• France dreams of its own 'Silicon Valley' Aug p9
• Obama boosts solar power Aug p9
• Prospecting beyond Earth Dorminey B Aug p12
• QinetiQ announces lay-offs Sep p9
• Singapore seeks a fusion of talent Banks M Sep p12
• From the universe to the Internet Cogan P Sep p48
• Hewlett-Packard brings 'memristor' to market Oct p11
• Cartlidge E Oct p30
• Oct p56

International

• Murdered physicist leaves Iran reeling Feb p6
• Africa launches continent-wide physics society Feb p6
• Thailand plans 'science city' Feb p11
• Al-Khalili J Apr p22
• Egypt tops African physics output May p10
• Iranian physicist 'defects' to the US May p10
• Max Planck Society expands into Asia Aug p7
• Going global Banks M Aug p10
• An entangled life Banks M Sep p11
• Singapore seeks a fusion of talent Banks M Sep p12
• Asia calling Sep p15
• Pakistani officials denounce budget cuts Oct p11
• US tops the class Oct p11
• A world of difference Oct p38
• New directions for developing-world science Harris M Nov p12

Internet

• Following the money Brockmann D Feb p31
• Net widens for funding of arXiv preprint server Mar p8
• Clegg B Mar p16
• Apr p39
• Nov p43

Ireland

• Bell Labs launches expansion in Ireland Mar p10
• From the universe to the Internet Cogan P Sep p48

Italy

• Berlusconi and Putin back novel device Jun p9
• Double success for neutrino lab Jul p4
• Scientists face trial over L'Aquila quake Jul p9
• Nicola Cabibbo: 1935–2010 Sep p10

Japan

• Looming budget deficit could end key projects Jan p8
• Saving Japanese physics Murayama H Jan p10
• Careers and people Jan p44
• Japanese science saved, but worries linger Feb p8
• Japanese experiment bags its first neutrino Apr p6
• Japan launches mission to Venus Jun p7
• Japan resurrects Monju fast-breeder reactor Jun p8
• Ex-physicist takes over as Japanese prime minister Jul p10
• Japan gives physics a super boost Aug p6
• Japan trials power and fresh water from the oceans Oct p12

Lasers and optics

• Light stalls in ultracold conditions Jan p4
• First light for germanium laser Mar p4
• Lambs for the chop May p3
• Breaking the vacuum Banks M May p12
• Let there be light May p15
• Perkowitz S May p16
• And then there was light Rigby P May p23
• Dunne M May p28
• Light fantastic May p34
• The bubble legacy Hecht J May p36
• Going for green Extance A May p43
• Beyond ultrafast Cavalieri A May p47
• May p53
• Supporting laser science Ellmann H May p58
• A villain's life in lasers Oliver K May p68
• Making rain with lasers Jun p4
• Big lasers, tiny circuits Rokitski S Jul p38
• Putting the squeeze on proton size Aug p4

Lateral thoughts

• The perilous world of the wardrobe Gillies J Jan p52
• Alice through the double slits Feb p52
• No weapons in the weapons lab Mar p60
• Gravity: friend or foe? Wright P Apr p52
• A villain's life in lasers Oliver K May p68
• The physics PR minefield Jun p56
• Mr Newton's classroom Duffield J Jul p48
• Left-handed beetles Aug p52
• Putting the fizz into physics Mills A Sep p60
• The rise and fall of nuclear naivety Harris M Oct p76
• We all live in peculiar times Miller D J Nov p56

Light sources, synchotrons and free-electron lasers

• Back to the future Clery D Apr p10
• Diamond wins £110m upgrade May p10
• Breaking the vacuum Banks M May p12
• May p53
• Getting beneath the skin of Da Vinci's famous enigma Sep p5
• Sweden gives green light to synchrotron Nov p10

Low-temperature physics

• No lightweight matter Halperin W Jul p17
• Helium? What helium? Rose-Innes A Aug p21

Mathematical and statistical physics

• Once a physicist: Fausto Morales May p59
• Barabasi A-L Jun p22
• It's a family affair Jul p9
• Schadschneider A Jul p21
• Feathered friends follow their neighbours Aug p5
• Crease R P Aug p19
• Simon S Sep p35

Medical physics

• New German ion-therapy centre treats its first patients Feb p7
• Rethinking cancer Davies P Jun p28
• Scientists attack European MRI rules Aug p7
• New accelerator to bridge isotope gap Aug p8
• Gordon J Aug p26
• Seeing more clearly Greenaway A Aug p33
• Williams P Oct p52

Metrology

• US standards lab funds new research centres Feb p11
• Crease R P Feb p17
• Chains, bombs, potrzebies and slugs Jewess M; McDowell A; Maxfield S; Hunt A G; Hicks B Mar p27
• Measuring hot air Apr p3
• Crease R P Jul p19
• The use and misuse of metric units Plammer J; Ferguson I Aug p21
• Save the centimetre, scrap the foot Atkin J K; Hersom M Sep p21
• Schoolboy error Nov p3
• Einstein's twin paradox in action Nov p4

Microscopy

• IBM researchers scale new heights Jun p5
• Resolution frontiers Moriarty P Nov p29

Miscellaneous

• God equation found!?! Jan p3
• Tiger gets a grip Jan p3
• Wobble-free rowing Jan p5
• Spouting off Cleare A; Chapman J Feb p21
• Hollywood physics Mar p3
• The quantum Hole effect Mar p3
• Physics World to hit the small screen Mar p3
• Who draws first, wins Mar p3
• Get clicking Mar p15
• That's hella signatures Apr p3
• A shattering display Apr p3
• Physics à la carte May p3
• Eensey, weensey units Huffmann B T; Doyle K; Atkin J K May p14
• Life after the lab Jun p3
• Don't be foaled Jun p3
• Meeting to advance physics Orzel C Jun p17
• Jun p41
• Spot the difference Jul p3
• Top tweeter Jul p3
• Lightest flight Jul p3
• Beaten by an octopus Aug p3
• Perfect cheese Aug p3
• Not to be sniffed at Sep p3
• How's that! Sep p3
• Planet rap Sep p3
• Sep p45
• The model in role model Oct p3
• Geek chic Oct p3
• Comments from physicsworld.com Oct p20
• A burning issue Nov p3
• Sticky issue Nov p3
• Comments from physicsworld.com Nov p23
• A lot of hot air Danson R Nov p23

Nanotechnology

• The world's smallest snowman? Jan p3
• Evanescent waves light up nanotechnology Feb p4
• Philips produces colour electronic paper Feb p5
• 3D invisibility cloak unveiled May p5
• Antenna shrunk for the nanoworld May p5
• IBM researchers scale new heights Jun p5
• Nanotubes boost battery performance Aug p5
• Taming light at the nanoscale Engheta N Sep p31

Netherlands

• Queen opens European superscope Jul p10

Nuclear physics

• Superheavies weigh in Mar p4
• Breaking the vacuum Banks M May p12
• 'Nuclear clock' unveiled Jul p4
• Name that element Aug p3
• Putting the squeeze on proton size Aug p4
• Williams P Oct p52

Nuclear power

• Allison W Jan p40
• Europe launches nuclear centre Mar p9
• South Africa slashes pebble-bed cash Apr p6
• Tritium leak triggers reactor shutdown in the US Apr p7
• China plans massive nuclear boost May p8
• Japan resurrects Monju fast-breeder reactor Jun p8
• US physicists call for changes to nuclear licensing Aug p11
• China puts fast-neutron reactors back on track Sep p9
• Reactors thrown an extended lifeline Oct p6
• Burning ideas of a nuclear visionary Durrani M Oct p15
• A wasted opportunity? Banks M Oct p16
• The road ahead Durrani M Oct p23
• Lowe I, Brook B Oct p24
• The lost leader Allen G Oct p26
• Crease R P Oct p28
• Cartlidge E Oct p30
• Beyond the envelope Oct p36
• A world of difference Oct p38
• Enter the thorium tiger Chalmers M Oct p40
• Harris M Oct p55
• Oct p56
• Oct p58
• Playing it safe with reactors Yule M Oct p60
• The rise and fall of nuclear naivety Harris M Oct p76
• Weighing up the options on nuclear power Clar R; Megson C; Young H; Herrera-Velázquez J Nov p21

Nuclear weapons

• US changes course on nuclear-weapons strategy May p11
• Cash shortage derails nuclear forensics Sep p7
• Physicist accused of passing secrets Nov p11

Obituaries

• Nicola Cabibbo: 1935–2010 Sep p10
• Georges Charpak: 1924–2010 Nov p9

Oceanography

• Japan trials power and fresh water from the oceans Oct p12

Optics

• The wrong London Griffith H, Tong K Jan p21
• Newton's idea spotted in neutrons Feb p5
• 3D invisibility cloak unveiled May p5
• Perkowitz S May p16
• And then there was light Rigby P May p23
• The bubble legacy Hecht J May p36
• Going for green Extance A May p43
• Beyond ultrafast Cavalieri A May p47
• May p53
• Fighting forgery with butterfly colour Jul p5
• A global vision for vision Mayor L Jul p29
• Seeing more clearly Greenaway A Aug p33
• Taming light at the nanoscale Engheta N Sep p31
• Flexible LEDs bring light to fingertips Nov p5

Particle physics

• Don't bet on it Jan p3
• Large Hadron Collider becomes the world's mightiest Jan p7
• Elephants stamp out neutrino-observatory plans Jan p9
• Own your own Higgs Feb p3
• CERN collisions light up Copenhagen Feb p10
• Cartlidge E Feb p12
• See you in Narnia Wright P Feb p21
• Higgs hunters face long haul Chalmers M Mar p11
• A multiverse of probabilities Freivogel B Mar p40
• Esposito S Mar p44
• Mar p45
• Antimatter turns strange in the lab Apr p4
• Japanese experiment bags its first neutrino Apr p6
• A question of trust Apr p15
• The LHC and the law Apr p19
• Majorana's legacy Apr p20
• In search of no neutrinos Gratta G; Kurahashi N Apr p27
• Dealing with doomsday Crease R P Apr p32
• Harris M Apr p40
• Strange quark weighs in precisely May p4
• LHC ramps up its search for the Higgs May p7
• Evidence grows for tetraquarks Jun p4
• Symbols of power Gates J Jun p34
• Double success for neutrino lab Jul p4
• Welcome to the particle universe Jul p7
• Japan gives physics a super boost Aug p6
• Gordon J Aug p26
• Tevatron targets three-year extension Sep p7
• Nicola Cabibbo: 1935–2010 Sep p10
• Fermilab officials weigh up options for Tevatron Oct p8
• Fermilab unveils Tevatron extension Nov p9
• Parker A Nov p42

Physics and finance

• A future less bright Nov p17

Physics and religion

• Al-Khalili J Apr p22
• Debating science in the Muslim world Karim M; Pointon T; Brandon D Jun p20
• Comments from physicsworld.com Oct p20

Physics and sport

• Kick-off for quantum security Jul p3
• Bend it like Carlos Oct p3

Plasma physics

• Plasmas join the battle for hospital cleanliness Jan p4
• Cowley S Oct p46

Publishing

• Net widens for funding of arXiv preprint server Mar p8
• Mar p47
• Apr p39
• Egypt tops African physics output May p10
• Brazil and Spain top paper charts Jul p10
• APS gives free journal access at US public libraries Sep p8

Publishing and public understanding

• Jan p39
• Feb p43
• Clegg B Mar p16
• The perils of physics PR McDowell A Jul p20

Quantum physics

• Breakthrough of the year Jan p15
• Entanglement pioneers bag Wolf prize Mar p6
• I spy quantum behaviour May p4
• Kick-off for quantum security Jul p3
• Aug p41
• Quantum theory holds strong Sep p4
• An entangled life Banks M Sep p11
• Simon S Sep p35
• Two slits good, three slits great Forgan T Nov p22
• Discovering many worlds Byrne P Nov p36

Research conduct and ethics

• Chinese duo fired for scientific fraud Feb p7
• Climate enquiry clears researchers May p10
• Greene L H Sep p42
• Court win allows Jan Hendrik Schön to keep PhD Nov p9
• Sweden gets tough on research misconduct Nov p9

Russia

• Researchers warn of neglect to basic science Mar p8
• Berlusconi and Putin back novel device Jun p9

Science and society

• Thomas N Jan p12
• Communicating climate change Kalaugher L Jan p16
• Cartlidge E Feb p12
• Crease R P Mar p19
• A question of trust Apr p15
• Dealing with doomsday Crease R P Apr p32
• Curating the space–time continuum Boyle A Apr p42
• Crease R P Oct p28
• Harris M Oct p55

Science policy

• Science and space: a view from the top Durrani M Mar p9
• Science minister unveils reforms to facilities council Apr p9
• In it to win it Jun p3
• Just the facts Brownout M Sep p21

Semiconductors and electronics

• Flexible electronics enters the e-reader market Feb p8
• First light for germanium laser Mar p4

Sociology of Science

• Crease R P Jan p19

South Africa

• Astronomer suspended Mar p9
• South Africa slashes pebble-bed cash Apr p6
• Top South African astronomer reinstated Apr p8
• Inquiry relights tensions over telescope Aug p8

Space science and the solar system

• Space sushi Feb p3
• Spy agency shares data on climate change Feb p10
• Feb p41
• One giant leap for pets Mar p3
• Obama signals new course for NASA Mar p6
• Galileo satellite deals start launch race Mar p7
• Science and space: a view from the top Durrani M Mar p9
• Cassini extends Saturn tour Mar p10
• A new view of our volatile star Cartlidge E Mar p12
• Cosmic challenges Mar p15
• Comments from physicsworld.com Mar p25
• Getting intimate with Mars Elachi C Mar p35
• Martian sand grains keep on bouncing Apr p5
• Buzz off May p3
• Obama sets out NASA's new mission to Mars May p9
• Europe's ice mission successfully blasts off May p9
• UK launches space agency to manage all contracts May p10
• Japan launches mission to Venus Jun p7
• Mexico launches space agency Jun p9
• Crumbling research labs could risk future NASA missions Jun p11
• Crash in Australian outback ends NASA ballooning season Jun p11
• The clock ticks for cosmic detector Cartlidge E Jun p12
• Comments from physicsworld.com Jun p21
• Mars – the one-way trip of a lifetime? Calverd A Jun p21
• Once a physicist: Marianne Dyson Jun p46
• Radiation fears stalk stellar mission Jul p6
• Airborne infrared telescope makes its maiden flight Jul p6
• SpaceX takes pole position in commercial space race Jul p8
• Space toys Aug p3
• European satellite releases first global gravity map Aug p13
• New boss for world space organization Sep p8
• Vietnam to launch Earth-watch satellite Sep p9
• Voit M Sep p24
• Sun explorer tools up Oct p11
• Lunar orbiter plots path for robotic lander Nov p10
• Title A Nov p24

Sweden

• Sweden gets tough on research misconduct Nov p9
• Sweden gives green light to synchrotron Nov p10

UK

• UK physics hit by savage cuts Jan p6
• Protest at plans to judge economic impact Jan p9
• Royal Society turns 350 as new Hawking portrait is unveiled Jan p13
• A new decade dawns Jan p15
• Questions raised over future of UK research council Feb p9
• Comments from physicsworld.com Feb p21
• UK fusion breakthrough revealed at last Evans R Mar p23
• Mar p47
• Tokamak upgrade provides first step for 20-year UK plan Apr p7
• Royal Society calls for UK investment Apr p8
• Science minister unveils reforms to facilities council Apr p9
• Diamond wins £110m upgrade May p10
• UK launches space agency to manage all contracts May p10
• UK parties spell out science policies ahead of 6 May general election May p11
• 'Two brains' named science minister Jun p9
• The lost leader Allen G Oct p26
• UK science spared from budget cuts Nov p8
• The big freeze Nov p15
• A future less bright Nov p17

US

• Congress signals US budget boost Jan p9
• Brain drain leads to more physicists heading to the US Jan p11
• Spy agency shares data on climate change Feb p10
• US standards lab funds new research centres Feb p11
• Obama signals new course for NASA Mar p6
• Iranian physicist 'defects' to the US May p10
• US changes course on nuclear-weapons strategy May p11
• Party politics crush US science bill Jun p7
• First US offshore wind farm gets government go-ahead Jun p8
• US boosts X-ray facilities Jun p9
• Crumbling research labs could risk future NASA missions Jun p11
• Doubts cast over success of US antimissile tests Jul p8
• US physicists call for changes to nuclear licensing Aug p11
• US astronomers unveil 10-year plan Sep p6
• Tevatron targets three-year extension Sep p7
• Boost for US superscope Sep p9
• US resets carbon-capture project Sep p10
• US tops the class Oct p11
• US science faces stormy times Nov p8

Women in physics

• Small but significant Aug p15
• Still a male preserve Aug p15
• Bug A Aug p16
• Seeking hard data on gender bias Ratzen E; Bug A Oct p19