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Print edition - index 2008

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Accelerators/acceleration mechanisms

American Physical Society

  • Letters that made a journal Jun p12

Applications

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

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

CERN

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

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

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

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

Mathematical and statistical physics

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

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

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

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

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

Publishing and public understanding

Quantum physics

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

Sociology of Science

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

Superconductivity

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