Print edition - index 1997

Acoustics

• The acoustics of concert halls May p33
• Defects detected with lasers and ultrasound Sep p28
• Bubbles generate unexpected stress Oct p23

Astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology

• Dinosaurs of the universe Jan p39
• Japan leads radio astronomers into space Mar p8
• Old stars are getting younger Mar p10
• Cold dark matter under attack Mar p17
• Gamma surprise Apr p10
• Stardust gives clues to the age of our galaxy Apr p27
• Scanning the sky with a camera May p53
• Axis of the universe debate rumbles on Jun p9
• Hale-Bopp lights up cometary Physics Jun p22
• Gamma-ray bursts come into view Jun p23
• Extrasolar planets Jul p31
• Megascience goes underwater Aug p6
• Stop interfering Aug p10
• Cosmic-ray astrophysicists close in on nearby supernova source Stanev T Aug p29
• Astronomers in race for Gemini Sep p5
• Axis row rolls on Oct p10
• Sizing up the universe Nov p47
• Einstein's legacy lives on Dec p5
• Holes in a final theory? Dec p39

Atomic and molecular physics

• Ion traps garner $20m Jan p10
• Probing quantum origins of the classical Jan p24
• High-intensity lasers focus on clusters Jan p26
• Thinking small Mar p3
• Physics adores a vacuum Mar p22
• Bose-Einstein condensation Mar p29
• Atomic physics in ion traps Mar p37
• Atom interferometry, spacetime andreality Mar p43
• Lasers probe long range molecular states Apr p29
• Electron dipole moments Apr p37
• Atom gyroscope measures tiny rotations Jun p24
• Atoms and anapoles Jun p25
• The art of measuring quantum states Freyberger M, Bardroff P, Leichtle C, Schrade G, Schleich W Nov p41
• Laser-cooled atoms clinch Nobel prize Nov p51
• Electric pulses pack a punch Dec p22

Australia

• Australian physicists fight cuts in university budgets Oct p12

Awards and prizes

• 1997 Wolf prize Jan p10
• 1997 Institute of Physics awards Jan p52
• 1997 Paul Dirac medal and prize Jan p52
• 1997 Thomas Young medal and prize Jan p52
• 1997 Kelvin medal and prize Jan p53
• 1997 Guthrie medal and prize Jan p53
• 1997 Bragg medal and prize Jan p53
• 1997 Holweck medal and prize Feb p50
• 1997 Max Born medal and prize Feb p50
• 1997 Institute of Physics awards Feb p50
• 1997 Harrie Massey medal and prize Mar p59
• 1997 Teachers Awards Apr p61
• 1997 Queen's awards Jun p60
• 1997 American Physical Society prizes Jun p60
• 1997 US National medal of science Jun p60
• 1997 Nobel prizes Nov p7
• Laser-cooled atoms clinch Nobel prize Nov p51
• 1998 Institute of Physics awards Dec p60
• 1998 Guthrie medal and prize Dec p60
• 1998 Paul Dirac medal and prize Dec p60
• 1998 Charles Vernon Boys medal and prize Dec p61
• 1998 Bragg medal and prize Dec p61

Biophysics

• Free-electron lasers probe protein dynamics Jan p22
• Noise is good for the brain Feb p15
• Biomagnetic instruments go portable Feb p16
• Life after Schrvdinger Apr p3
• Italy invests in hadron therapy Apr p6
• Photons combine to visualize living tissue May p26
• Power lines cleared Aug p10
• Scintillation speeds up biological tests Aug p26
• New views on twilight vision Sep p27
• Optical tweezers and spanners Padgett M, Allen L Sep p35
• Physics and the Human Genome Project Sep p41
• Two images are better than one Dec p23

Books reviewed

• Yakov IIich Frenkel: His Work, Life and Letters Victor Ya. Frenkel Jan p45
• Beyond Science John Polkinghorne Jan p46
• Statistically Speaking ed Carl Gaither and Alma Cavazos-Gaither Jan p46
• Superconductivity of Metals and Cuprates John Waldram Jan p47
• The Life and Legacy of G I Taylor George Batchelor Feb p43
• Mathematica 3.0 Wolfram Research Feb p44
• Understanding Molecular Simulation: From Algorithms to Applications Daan Frenkel and Berend Smit Feb p45
• A Scientist Speaks Out Feb p45
• Nanotechnology: Molecular Speculations on Global Abundance ed B C Crandall Mar p49
• Science of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes M S Dresselhaus, G Dresselhaus and P C Eklund Mar p50
• A History of Modern Planetary Physics Stephen Brush Mar p51
• Shadow of a Star: The Story of Supernova 1987A Mar p52
• Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe Helge Kragh Apr p53
• Electron: A Centenary Volume Apr p54
• Invention by Design: How Engineers Get From Thought to Thing Henry Petroski Apr p55
• Where Does the Weirdness Go? David Lindley Apr p56
• The Large, the Small and the Human Mind Roger Penrose with Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright and Stephen Hawking May p51
• The Photographic Atlas of the Starts H J P Arnold, Patrick Doherty and Patrick Moore May p53
• Fragile Objects Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Jacques Badoz May p54
• Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics ed John Bahcall and Jeremiah Ostriker May p54
• The Fabric of Reality David Deutsch Jun p51
• Impact! The Threat of Comets and Asteroids Gerrit L Verschuur Jun p52
• Would-Be-Worlds: How Simulation is Changing the Frontiers of Science John Casti Jun p53
• Curie, Einstein, Faraday, Galileo, Halley and Newton in 90 minutes Jun p54
• Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others Martin Rees Jul p53
• Organizing Scientific Meetings August Epple Jul p54
• The Quantum Theory of Fields Volume 2: Modern Applications Steven Weinberg Jul p54
• The MIT Guide to Science and Engineering Communication Jul p55
• Empire of Light: A History of Discovery in Science and Art Sidney Perkowitz Aug p51
• Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art Arthur Miller Aug p51
• Conceptual Developments of 20th Century Field Theories Tian Yu Cao Aug p53
• Stephen Hawking's Universe Sep p53
• Schrvdinger's Machines: the Quantum Technology Reshaping Everyday Life Gerard Milburn Sep p54
• Heisenberg Probably Slept Here: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Physicists of the 20th Century Richard Brennan Sep p55
• The Theory of Superconductivity in the High-Tc Cuprates Phillip Anderson Oct p51
• Golf Balls, Boomerangs and Asteroids: The Impact of Missiles on Society Brian Kaye Oct p52
• Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics Peter Galison Oct p53
• The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins Alan Guth Nov p47
• States of Matter, States of Mind Allan Barton Nov p48
• Eureka! Physics of Particles, Matter and the Universe Roger Blin-Stoyle Nov p48
• Why Things Are the Way They Are Bellur Sivaramiah Chandrasekhar Nov p48
• History of European Scientific and Technological Cooperation ed John Krige and Luca Gazetti Nov p49
• The Life of the Cosmos Lee Smolin Dec p39
• The Quark Machines: How Europe Fought the Particle Physics War Gordon Fraser Dec p40
• The Fire Within the Eye: A Historical Essay on the Nature and Meaning of Light David Park Dec p41
• The Invention That Changed the World: The Story of Radar From War to Peace Robert Buderi Dec p42
• Sounds Out of Silence: A Life of Alexander Graham Bell James Mackay Dec p43
• Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson Dec p44
• Two-fisted Science Dec p45
• Flash of the Cathode Rays: A History of J J Thomson's Electron Per Dahl Dec p46
• Time's Arrows and Quantum Measurement Lawrence S Schulman Dec p47
• Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering: No Universal Constraints Susan Ambrose, Kristin Dunkle, Barbara Lazarus, Indira Nair and Deborah Harkus Dec p48
• Giant Molecules: Here, There and Everywhere... Alexander Yu Grosberg and Alexei Khokllov Dec p49
• The Joy of Pi Dec p50

Canada

• Canadian physicists work hard to defend their subject Aug p11
• Canada closes seven reactors Sep p5

CERN

• LHC will be built in one stage Feb p7
• Japan pays for CERN's anti-atoms Apr p5
• US wavers on CERN May p12
• Fire closes collider Jun p12
• US warms to LHC Jun p12
• CERN hustings Nov p13

Chaos, complexity and nonlinearity

• Power laws for cities Oct p22
• Traffic jams defy physics Dec p5

Computation and software

• Automation for the people Jan p59
• Cosmic background pays off for Microsoft's research chief Gwynne P Jun p11
• Simulations for students Jul p47
• New directions in computational aerodynamics Aug p45
• Grains of understanding Nov p31

Condensed matter

• Hybrid sheds new light on smart windows Jan p23
• Laser action in very white paint Jan p33
• Microscopy probes tiny magnets Feb p18
• Rotons: a low-temperature puzzle Feb p25
• Uplifting sight at low temperature Mar p26
• Bose-Einstein condensation Mar p29
• Looking inside granular materials Apr p26
• Molecular magnetism takes off Apr p28
• Electron energy-loss spectroscopy Apr p47
• Rotons remembered May p23
• X-rays probe small-scale polymer motions May p27
• Superlubricity: when friction stops May p29
• Granular material separate the rough from the smooth May p29
• Nanochemistry of grain boundaries May p45
• Passionate about soft condensed matter May p54
• Experiments on nanotubes catch up with theory Jun p21
• Liquid-crystal displays Jun p33
• Twisted substrate goes universal Jul p23
• Colloids make ultrafast optical devices Jul p24
• Levy distributions Jul p42
• Towards a quantum loudspeaker Aug p25
• Wobbling zeolites promote catalysis Aug p28
• Physics boosts oil production King P Aug p33
• Windscreens: never seen until damaged Aug p39
• Theory catches up with flying frog Sep p23
• Microscope images individual charges Sep p25
• Defects detected with lasers and ultrasound Sep p28
• Fractional charge carriers discovered Oct p9
• Porous silicon lights up micro-optics Oct p24
• Research puts scanning electron microscopy in focus Oct p67
• Current flow measured in single molecules Nov p5
• Drips go with the flow Nov p5
• Fresh insights into electron oscillations Nov p24
• Light follows the example of electrons Nov p25
• Atoms get a big push, or is that a pull? Nov p27
• Grains of understanding Nov p31
• New magnets go west Dec p9
• Neutrons for the future Dec p27
• Seeing the spins in solids Dec p33

Denmark

• Danish reshuffle Feb p10
• Danes unveil research strategy Apr p60
• Risx must work more closely with industry Jul p6
• Fulfilment valued over education Aug p6
• ...but falls in Denmark Nov p10

Education

• UK universities overhauled Aug p8
• An end in itself? Aug p21
• Counting the cost after Dearing Sep p13
• Physics -- which way now? Sep p17
• Universities welcome new degrees Sep p59
• Olympiad students win medals Sep p63
• Students suffer with old equipment Nov p9
• Scientific literacy starts at school Nov p19
• A-level physics -- do students like or loathe the subject? Nov p60

Energy

• Boost for amplifier May p12
• Fusion energy: the agony, the ecstasy and the alternatives Nov p15

Europe

• Call for European collaboration in optics Jan p50
• Establishing Euroscience Jan p51
• Europe unveils neutron plans May p5
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of physics in Europe? May p15
• New voice for Europe May p58
• Survey paints picture of health Jun p6
• Spanish attraction Sep p20
• ESF Network set up for interdisciplinary theory Oct p58
• Nobel laureates generate publicity in Poland Nov p52
• Heavyweights debate research interfaces Nov p53
• Eureka -- an inventive approach Dec p53

European Physical Society

• Eastern European physicists are in a fix May p58
• EPS chief quits Jun p12
• New chief of EPS appointed Oct p58

European Space Agency

• New Cluster jeopardized Jan p10
• ESA shelves long-term science plans Mar p7
• Europe's space scientists seek room to manoeuvre Apr p14
• Cluster will fly again May p7
• ESA goes for faster missions Jun p5
• Row erupts over plan to merge mission Jul p7
• National Agencies balk at payload bill Oct p7
• Smart mission Nov p13
• Catastrophe claim splits ESA Dec p8

European Union

• EU training could do better Jan p6
• Fellows pleased with EU scheme Mar p56
• Framework programme criticized Apr p12
• EC plans 5th Framework May p10
• Out of Focus Jun p10
• Brussels backs human potential Jul p6
• Budget boost for 5th framework Sep p10
• EU increases physics network Sep p61
• Russian and the EU start talks Sep p61
• Fellow peril Oct p19
• EC advisory body slims down Nov p13
• Europe's success based on national aims Nov p49
• Themes and variations Dec p8

Facilities

• ESF sets up magnetic facility study Jan p6
• Swiss neutron source opens Feb p5
• France plans new synchrotron source Mar p5
• Neutron sources Mar p10
• Swiss approve new synchrotron light source Jul p5
• Magnet plans shape up Jul p9
• Late delivery Aug p10
• Portugal joins the ESRF Sep p61
• Heavy ions split US and Europe Oct p5
• US calls for extra funds Nov p8
• Japan thinks big Nov p8
• Neutrons for the future Finney J, Steigenberger U Dec p27

France

• France plans new synchrotron source Mar p5
• Superphinix survives Apr p6
• Researchers up in arms Jun p10
• Geophysicist is made French research minister Jul p9
• New jobs for postdocs Aug p5
• France plans to open up its elite schools Oct p8
• Funding rises in France Nov p10
• Big gains for small science as research council is overhauled Dec p9
• Subatomic threat to CNRS Dec p9

Fusion

• Turbulence upsets US fusion community Jan p8
• Europe could delay or abandon international fusion project Jul p5
• JET springs a leak Jul p13
• JET plans to shed 100 staff Aug p5
• More time for fusion design Sep p10
• JET sets fusion record Nov p9
• Laser gains Nov p13
• Fusion energy: the agony, the ecstasy and the alternatives Nov p15
• New routes to fusion Dec p5
• Stark choice for tokamaks Dec p24

Geophysics

• Cracks in the Earth's surface Feb p31
• Physics boosts oil production Aug p33
• Scientists exploit the Global Positioning System Sep p31

Germany

• Max Planck Society wrestles with budget cuts Jan p12
• Innovation down as investment declines Feb p6
• Blue list labs to compete with universities May p6
• Germany plans world-beating linac May p8
• Will DESY go nuclear? May p9
• Clouds gather over science park plans Jul p12
• Space boost in German budget Aug p10

History of physics

• J J Thomson and the discovery of the electron Apr p33
• Physicists celebrate anniversaries at particle jamboree Nov p53
• Fifty years of transistor action Dec p44
• The ion and the corpuscle Dec p46

Industry and innovation

• US leapfrog Japan on HDTV Jan p9
• The changing face of universities in the innovation age Jan p15
• Innovation down as investment declines Feb p6
• Fresh growth in science parks? Feb p47
• Physicists collaborate Mar p10
• How universities benefit industry Mar p55
• Basic research bounces back at Bell Labs Apr p8
• Europe's top firms stick to near-market R&D Apr p9
• Firm success Apr p10
• Electron-beam lithography Apr p41
• Exploit science May p58
• What is physics for? Jun p15
• Displays: a window into the future Jun p29
• New displays move into the market Jun p31
• Liquid-crystal displays Jun p33
• Plasma displays Jun p39
• Field-emission displays Jun p45
• 1997 Queen's awards Jun p60
• New horizons for R&D Jul p3
• Microsoft sets up Cambridge research lab Jul p12
• Science-based enterprise: threat or opportunity? Jul p15
• Off the beaten track Aug p3
• GEC looks to core business Aug p9
• How to get value from R&D Aug p17
• Windscreens: never seen until damaged Aug p39
• New directions in computational aerodynamics Aug p45
• Tending the new growth near Scotland's Silicon Glen Aug p57
• Pearls, pebbles and pyrites Oct p15
• New sites for Oxford Instruments Nov p11
• Euro defence giant born Nov p11
• Homes to plug into the Internet Nov p11
• Eureka -- an inventive approach Dec p53

Institute of Physics

• From condensed matter theory to application and back again Jan p49
• The Queen opens the Institute's new headquarters Jan p51
• Education inquiry Jan p51
• News from council Jan p51
• 1997 Institute of Physics awards Jan p52
• New rules for members Feb p49
• Teachers observe the universe in a glass of water Feb p49
• 1997 Institute of Physics awards Feb p50
• Government backs CD-ROM workshops for lectures Feb p51
• How universities benefit industry Mar p55
• Promoting new topics Mar p57
• Institute supports national science week events Mar p59
• 1997 Teachers awards Apr p61
• Institute renews its agreement with research council Apr p62
• New initiatives in education May p57
• The sound of success May p59
• Accreditation first for Institute May p59
• Institute policy statements May p60
• Living in a material world May p60
• What is physics for? Jun p15
• Institute of Physics salary survey Jun p55
• Sixth-formers delight in physics masterclasses Jun p57
• Institute promotes accreditation scheme Jun p58
• Bubbles and Brillouin scattering bag writing prize Aug p59
• On-line journals go hyper Sep p62
• Policy moves up agenda Sep p62
• Irish premier unveils tribute to Nobel laureate Oct p59
• New company is launched to organize conferences Oct p59
• Friendships formed at international student conference Oct p59
• Congress gets revitalized Oct p60
• Bristol office honours Paul Dirac Nov p59
• A-level physics -- do students like or loathe the subject Nov p60
• Atomic physicists go electronic Nov p60
• 1998 Institute of Physics awards Dec p60
• From Whitehall to the White House: celebrating the electron Dec p62
• From Physics World to PhysicsWeb Dec p62

International

• Singapore attraction Jan p50
• New status for Belarussian radio-ecology institute Mar p56
• Physicist to run Korean science Apr p10
• NATO science under scrutiny Jun p10
• Megascience goes underwater Aug p6
• Albania votes in physicist Sep p10
• India invests in fast-breeder reactor Oct p6
• NATO looks east Nov p13
• IUPAP tackles new challenges Nov p52
• Science could be squeezed off the Internet, meeting warned Dec p54

Ireland

• Knowledge taxed Mar p10
• Irish funding criticized Jun p12
• Old challenges for new science minister Aug p6
• Irish R&D spend announced Sep p10
• Irish premier unveils tribute to Nobel laureate Oct p59
• Science gets a higher profile Nov p9

Italy

• ENEA's new approach pays off Feb p9
• Italy invests in hadron therapy Apr p6
• Concerns raised over shift to applied science Jul p8
• Government funds for universities stop halfway Jul p8
• Power could be seized from research council Sep p6
• Italy opens particle factory Oct p5

Japan

• Japan leads radio astronomers into space Mar p8
• Japan's image is tarnished May p9
• Japan goes it alone Aug p9
• National debt threatens science plans Sep p8
• Space programme cut back Sep p8
• Japan slowly increases funds Oct p8

Lasers and optics

• High-intensity lasers focus on clusters Schmidt M, Normand D Jan p26
• Laser action in very white paint Wiersma D, Lagendijk A Jan p33
• Organic diodes show their colours Feb p19
• Laser ions ring local modes first Mar p23
• Bombs away Apr p10
• Photonic crystals boost light emission Jul p25
• Superlattice lasers go to longer wavelengths Jul p26
• Laser highlights Sep p3
• New views on twilight vision Sep p27
• Defects detected with lasers and ultrasound Sep p28
• Optical tweezers and spanners Padgett M, Allen L Sep p35
• Quantum-dot lasers Sep p47
• Lasers look through opaque solids Oct p25
• Light follows the example of electrons Nov p25
• Slippery as an eel Dec p41

Lateral thoughts

• How to succeed at conferences Jan p68
• The riches of science Feb p68
• Switched on? Mar p72
• Rutherford and I Apr p80
• Welcome to the Department of Virtual Physics May p80
• Physics and golf? You must be joking Jun p76
• Music maestro please Jul p72
• Close enough Aug p76
• Rough world Sep p76
• The strain of success Oct p80
• Jack the dripper: chaos in modern art? Nov p76
• Seeing particles Dec p84

Microscopy

• Microscopy probes tiny magnets Feb p18
• Microscope images individual charges Sep p25
• Research puts scanning electron microscopy in focus Oct p67
• Atoms get a big push, or is that a pull? Nov p27

Miscellaneous

• Molecular magnetism takes off Apr p28
• What Carlo did next May p10
• Hale not hearty May p12
• The acoustics of concert halls May p33
• Physics and golf? You must be joking Jun p76
• Fighting science with science Jul p57
• Banana shot Aug p22
• Skeptics cornered Sep p20
• Theory catches up with flying frog Sep p23
• Physics helps to find buried objects Sep p24
• Papal eye on the sky Dec p12

Netherlands

• Dutch research praised by international panel Apr p60

Nuclear physics

• Euroball kicks off in Italy Apr p7
• New postgraduate hits thesis jackpot Apr p7
• Elements named Apr p10
• Will DESY go nuclear? May p9
• Nuclear family selects next generation Jun p7
• NuPECC backs theory Sep p61
• Heavy ions split US and Europe Oct p5
• Italy opens particle factory Oct p5
• Models link nuclei with buckyballs Nov p26

Nuclear power

• Plutonium sparks controversy Jan p10
• Nuclear plans hit rocky patch Feb p5
• Plutonium deal Feb p10
• Superphinix survives Apr p6
• Japan's image is tarnished May p9
• Japan goes it alone Aug p9
• Canada closes seven reactors Sep p5
• India invests in fast-breeder reactor Oct p6

Nuclear weapons

• Rotblat retires Sep p10
• University stewards Sep p10
• Proliferation worries grow at US reactor Oct p6
• Critical issues at the original nuclear lab Nov p12

Obituaries

• Abdus Salam Jan p54
• Neville Robinson Jan p54
• Sir Olliver Humphreys Jan p55
• Peter Fowler Feb p52
• Carl Sagan Feb p52
• Keith Ruddock Feb p53
• Jim Valentine Feb p53
• Roger Tayler Mar p60
• Yuli Khariton Mar p60
• Bryan Coles Apr p63
• John Hoogenboom Apr p63
• Frank Llewellyn-Jones Apr p64
• Edward Purcell May p61
• Chien-Shiung Wu May p62
• Robert Dicke May p63
• Deryck Goodwin May p63
• Martin Schwarzschild Jun p59
• Motoharu Kimura Jun p59
• Neil Forbes Jul p61
• Aled Williams Aug p60
• Ken Allen Aug p61
• Robert Weber Aug p61
• Eric Taylor Sep p63
• Norris Bradbury Oct p60
• Louis Cohen Oct p61
• David Wright Oct p61
• Dick Jennings Oct p62
• Kalervo Laurikainen Nov p54
• Louis Essen Nov p55
• Mary O'Brien Nov p55
• Reginald Gibbs Nov p56
• Brian Maddock Dec p27
• Wade Patterson Dec p56
• John Jelley Dec p57
• Adolf Schallamach Dec p58

Particle physics

• LHC will be built in one stage Feb p7
• A new test for the Standard Model Feb p37
• Pipe dream or tunnel vision? Mar p6
• Atom interferometry, spacetime andreality Mar p43
• DESY double offers high hopes for new physics Apr p25
• Electron dipole moments Apr p37
• Germany plans world-beating linac May p8
• Dreams of a muon collider May p8
• Atoms and anapoles Jun p25
• Road-map highlights options Jul p7
• Spotlight on the photon Aug p27
• Computer networks taken to task Sep p10
• Exotic meson surprises theorists Oct p21
• Cecil Powell: pions, peace and politics Nov p35
• Experiment finds one in a billion Peach K Dec p21
• Tunnelling for victory in particle physics Dec p40
• Seeing particles Dec p84

Philosophy of science

• Ambitious thoughts in search of tangible tests May p51
• Reality is not a hoax Jun p3
• Skirmishes on the wild side of science Jul p11
• Glimmer of peace appears in the science wars Sep p9
• Science studies -- what's wrong? Dec p15

Plasma physics

• Turbulence upsets US fusion community Jan p8
• First for START May p12
• Plasma displays Deschamps, Doyeux H Jun p39
• Stark choice for tokamaks Dec p24

Publishing and public understanding

• Access all areas Jan p3
• In the beginning... Jan p29
• 100 highlights from 100 issues Jan p30
• ...and in the future Jan p32
• How to spread science to the public -- the way ahead? Feb p11
• How to write a winner Feb p49
• Journal prices campaigner dies Mar p10
• Scientists without white coats Apr p59
• Axis of the universe debate rumbles on Jun p9
• Sporting interest Jul p13

Quantum physics

• Probing quantum origins of the classical Jan p24
• The art of measuring quantum states Freyberger M, Bardroff P, Leichtle C, Schrade G, Schleich W Nov p41

Russia

• No cash for crash clues Mar p7
• The continued menace of communism in Russia Apr p17
• Pearls, pebbles and pyrites Oct p15

Science policy

• Conduct and misconduct in science Mar p13
• Fighting science with science Jul p57
• Big science needs the Aug p15
• How to get value from R&D Aug p17
• Peerless pressure Aug p21

Semiconductors and electronics

• Tunnelling through the terahertz range Feb p17
• Quantum dots measure electron interference Mar p25
• Electron-beam lithography Apr p41
• Patterns below the Jul p37
• Quantum-dot lasers Sep p47

Space science and the solar system

• X-ray emission from Comet Hyakutake exceeds expectations Jan p21
• Orbital debris Feb p10
• No cash for crash clues Mar p7
• Satellites threaten science Mar p8
• Galileo results raise new questions about Ganymede Mar p21
• Europe's space scientists seek room to manoeuvre Apr p14
• Cluster will fly again May p7
• Space station held up May p7
• Orbiting debris poses increasing threat to space missions May p25
• ESA goes for faster missions Jun p5
• Mission to Saturn ready to blast off Oct p7
• National agencies balk at payload bill Oct p7
• Inside the solar system Oct p27
• Planets: something in the air Oct p29
• Mysteries of the sun Oct p35
• Comets: history in the sky Oct p41
• Inside the solid planets and moons Oct p45
• Organics observed on Jupiter's moon Nov p5

Superconductivity

• Joint effort required in superconductivity Jan p19
• A handy guide to terra incognita Bishop D Jan p47
• Superconductivity concerns Feb p10
• Superconductors speed up computation May p39
• Superconductivity seen in ferromagnet Jul p27
• Superconductors: can they speed up computing? Aug p21
• New model goes on the block Oct p9
• Superconducting thoughts meet sceptical resistance Oct p51
• Seeing the spins in solids Dec p33

Sweden

• Swedish researchers seek support from foundations Mar p56
• Look to your strengths, Swedish researchers told by international review panel Jul p59
• Swedish fusion plans approved Oct p58

Switzerland

• Swiss neutron source opens Feb p5
• Swiss approve new synchrotron light source Jul p5
• Architect of change Jul p9

UK

• Research rating rise in the UK Jan p5
• Science funding stays in steady state Jan p6
• Defence: Jobs crisis Jan p7
• Maths standards hold up Jan p7
• Foresight into business Jan p9
• Coventry could close Jan p10
• Too little? Feb p3
• Nuclear plans hit rocky patch Feb p5
• Researchers satisfied with their share Feb p7
• Premium rate for star performers Feb p8
• Brash kids push UK to the top Mar p9
• How universities benefit industry Mar p55
• Physics get funding boost Apr p11
• What science politics? May p3
• Nirex plan rejected May p12
• UK universities cut back on physics May p12
• Single number fails to do justice to research quality May p19
• Age concern May p23
• Big science seeks industry May p58
• Battle will fight for science Jun p8
• Action averts further cuts Jun p8
• Edinburgh or Cambridge? Jun p12
• Road-map highlights options Jul p7
• Foresight was worth it Jul p10
• Sussex to shed a third of its staff Jul p10
• POST criticizes missing millions in research funds Jul p10
• Telescope technology moves to Edinburgh: Cambridge fights closure Aug p7
• UK universities overhauled Aug p8
• GEC looks to core business Aug p9
• Big science needs the Aug p15
• National space science centre to be built in Leicester Aug p58
• Student numbers stay steady in the UK Sep p6
• Counting the cost after Dearing Sep p13
• Setting priorities for big science Sep p17
• Universities welcome new degrees Sep p59
• Military loses out to civil R&D Sep p61
• Labour disappoints Oct p3
• Labour moves cautiously Oct p8
• Young blood Oct p10
• Jobs for the boys Oct p10
• Bench-top support Oct p10
• Evaluating physics in the UK Oct p57
• Funding cuts dismay physicists Nov p7
• Students suffer with old equipment Nov p9
• New sites for Oxford Instruments Nov p11
• New faces at research councils Nov p13
• Synchrotron boost Nov p13
• UK rethinks military R&D Dec p10
• Black mark for Blackstone Dec p55
• Lords back business angels Dec p56

US

• Turbulence upsets US fusion community Jan p8
• Fresh faces take up key positions Feb p6
• US basic research stays steady Mar p5
• Societies lobby for R&D cash Apr p5
• Basic research bounces back at Bell Labs Apr p8
• Brookhaven bother Apr p10
• BNL bruised by science-before-safety verdict Jun p7
• Physicist alternates between DC and MIT Sep p7
• Student numbers:...but fall in US Sep p7
• US could restart breeder reactor Sep p10
• US revives Star Wars plan Oct p6
• US calls for extra funds Nov p8
• Funding: and rises in the US ... Nov p10
• Critical issues at the original nuclear lab Nov p12
• Empire strikes back Nov p13
• Management slated at US labs Dec p54

Women in physics

• Retracing female routes to success Dec p48