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Print edition - index 2000

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Acoustics

  • The bubble bursts for the snapping shrimp Jamieson V Oct p3
  • Sonic crystals worth shouting about Economou E Nov p26

Applications

  • Microwave alternative to hysterectomy Jan p8
  • Natural-born problem solvers de Laine M Jan p10
  • Radioactivity reveals how crisps mix Parker D Jan p19
  • Debut for electron-laser surgery Feb p5
  • Can physics save fish stocks? Magnússon K G Feb p21
  • Silicon germanium makes its mark Paul D Feb p27
  • Displays firm signals a global ambition Mar p9
  • Industry warms to superconductors Tallon J Mar p27
  • The rise and rise of the mobile phone Kalloj&#228rvi K Mar p33
  • Science and the Stradivarius Gough C Apr p27
  • Terahertz imaging comes into view Arnone D, Ciesla C and Pepper M Apr p35
  • New designs on complex patterns Morfill G and Bunk W Apr p41
  • Danes sense new demand May p6
  • Far sighted opticians turn to astronomy May p12
  • Physics and archaeology David A and Linford N May p27
  • Neuromagnetism: tracking the dynamics of the brain Hari R, Lounasmaa O May p33
  • Cryptography's quantum barrier Lo H Jun p17
  • Physics sorts the wheat from the chaff Bee S Jun p24
  • Industry sizes up nanotubes de Heer W, Martel R Jun p49
  • Superconducting gains Jul p3
  • Diamond: a laser's best friend Pickles C S J and Sussmann R S Jul p25
  • Optical data storage enters a new dimension IBM Holographic Storage Team I Jul p37
  • NMR hits the road Aug p3
  • Revolutionary device polarizes opinions Durrani M Aug p9
  • Photonic crystals Parker G and Charlton M Aug p29
  • SQUIDs pinpoint surgical needles Sep p3
  • Superconductivity leaves the lab Burgoyne J Oct p23
  • New route to electron emission Jensen K Oct p25
  • Weapons laboratory helps target cancer Gwynne P Nov p7
  • Levitating frog wins prize Nov p12
  • Neutrons tackle landmines Dec p7

Astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology

  • Laser star could clean up observations Jan p6
  • New chapter opens in X-ray astronomy Jan p7
  • The search for dark matter Smith N, Spooner N Jan p23
  • Stonehenge may have predicted lunar eclipses Feb p3
  • Pulsar may be strange star Chakrabarty D Feb p26
  • Seeing first light from extrasolar planet Guillot T Mar p25
  • NASA eyes up gamma rays Apr p7
  • Dark-matter dispute intensifies Avignone F T Apr p21
  • Adaptive optics brings full sky into focus Mountain M and Rigaut F Apr p25
  • Hubble prepares for the next ten years May p7
  • Gamma rays down under Pockley P May p7
  • Calling all cosmophysicists May p14
  • Weakness and darkness Jun p3
  • Is it dark matter? Smith P Jun p21
  • Boomerang backs flat universe Silk J Jun p23
  • New exoplanets exposed Sep p3
  • Old galaxies in a new light Sep p3
  • SKA moves one step beyond Sep p12
  • Radio telescopes look ahead Sep p12
  • Magnetism points to molecular asymmetry Kondepundi D Sep p22
  • New black hole weighs in Oct p3
  • Shaky reception for VIRGO Oct p7
  • Astronomers probe a wobbling pulsar Cordes J Oct p27
  • Gamma-ray burst sets new record Nov p3
  • Non-Newtonian doubts over dark matter Pennicott K Nov p9
  • Quintessence Nov p31

Atomic and molecular physics

Australia

  • The silicon route to quantum computing Jan p9
  • Gamma rays down under Pockley P May p7

Awards and prizes

  • Neutrino work wins Wolf prize Feb p12
  • Max Born medal Feb p46
  • Holweck prize Mar p50
  • Cosmology prize launched Apr p14
  • Agilent prize announced Apr p26
  • Outstanding teachers gain recognition Apr p50
  • Dyyson wins Temleton Prize May p14
  • Prizes for particle theorists Sep p12
  • New award for cosmologists Sep p12
  • Countdown to the Nobel prize Rodgers P Oct p10
  • IT pioneers awarded Nobel prize Durrani M Nov p5
  • Physicist shares chemistry Nobel prize Durrani M Nov p6
  • 2001 Institute of Physics awards Dec p55

Biophysics

  • Microwave alternative to hysterectomy Jan p8
  • Debut for electron-laser surgery Feb p5
  • Helping hand for chirality Mar p7
  • New designs on complex patterns Morfill G and Bunk W Apr p41
  • Far sighted opticians turn to astronomy May p12
  • Neuromagnetism: tracking the dynamics of the brain Hari R, Lounasmaa O May p33
  • Boost for hadron therapy Jun p9
  • Medical physicsits seek new image Marks A Jun p22
  • Biological lessons for physicists Jones R Jun p54
  • How do scorpions locate their prey? Jul p3
  • Physics helps solve protein structures Jul p8
  • SQUIDs pinpoint surgical needles Sep p3
  • Lighting up biomedicine Sep p6
  • Lure of the life sciences Sep p6
  • Astronomy joins battle on cancer Oct p12
  • Astronomy joins battle on cancer Oct p12
  • Weapons laboratory helps target cancer Gwynne P Nov p7
  • Deep sleep Dec p12

Books reviewed

  • The Resouceful Physics Teacher: 600 Ideas for Creative Teaching, Keith Gibbs Palmer K Jan p35
  • Technological Entrepreneurism: Enterprise Formation, Financing and Growth, Marlo Cardullo Chapchal D Jan p36
  • Getting the Message: A History of Communications, Laszlo Solymar Bray J Jan p36
  • The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie: The Science and Aesthetics of Tie Knots, Thomas Fink and Yong Mao Durrani M Jan p37
  • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography, Simon Singh Ekert A Feb p39
  • Carl Sagan: A Life, Keay Davidson Morrison D Feb p41
  • Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos, William Poundstone Morrison D Feb p41
  • H2O: A Biography of Water, Philip Ball Angell A Feb p42
  • Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age, Patricia Rife Kragh, H Mar p45
  • What Science Is and How It Works, Gregory Derry Ziman J Mar p46
  • Muddling Through: Pursuing Science and Truths in the 21st Century, Mike Fortun and Herbert J Bernstein Pestre, D Mar p47
  • Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth Century Physics, George Johnson Jacob M Apr p46
  • Weaving the Web: The past, Present and future of the World Wide Web by its Inventor, Tim Berners-Lee Johnson T Apr p47
  • The Entrepreneurial Engineer: Starting Your Own High-Tech Company, R Wayne Fields Smith Des Apr p49
  • A Radar History of World War II: Technical and Military Imperitives, Louis Brown Brown R H May p45
  • Fusion: A Voyage Through the Plasma Universe, Hans Wihelmson Alejaldre C May p46
  • The Odd Quantum, Sam Treidman Peres A May p47
  • Biology in Physics: Is Life Matter?, Konstantin Bogdanov Jones R Jun p54
  • Einstein and religion, Max Jammer Pinsent A Jun p55
  • The Genius of Science: A Portriat Gallery of Twentieth-Century Physicists, Abraham Pais Berry M Jun p56
  • Strange and Charmed: Science and the Comtemporary Visual Arts, Sian Ede (ED) Jaroszynski D and McNeil B Jul p51
  • Managing Science: Management For R&D Laboratories, C.Geles, G. Lindecker, M. Month and C. Roche Cho Y Jul p53
  • The accelerating Universe: Infinate Expansion, the Cosmological Constant and the Beauty of the Cosmos, Mario Livio Prantzos N Aug p43
  • Zen Buddhism and Modern Physics: Morality and Religion in the New Millennium, R J Brissenden Zajonc A Aug p44
  • Antimatter: The Ultimate Mirror, Gordon Fraser and Lucifer's Legacy: The Meaning of Asymmetry, Frank Close Chardin G Aug p45
  • Supersymmetry: Unveiling the Ultimate Laws of Nature, Gordon Kane Townsend P Sep p45
  • Real Science:What Is It And What It Means, John Ziman Brown J R Sep p46
  • Science in Translation: Movements of Knowledge Through Culture and Time, Scott Montgomery Wallace W Sep p47
  • Rutherford: Scientist Supreme, John Campbell Hughes J Oct p50
  • Chernobyl Record:The Definitive History of the Chernobyl Catastrophe, Richard Mould Crick M Oct p51
  • Ubiquity: The Science of History... or Why the World is Simpler Than We Think, Mark Buchanan Caves C Nov p45
  • A century of Measurement:An Illustated History of the National Physical Laboratory, Eileen Magnello Magnello E Nov p46
  • The Physics of Consciousness: The Quantum Mind and the Meaning of Life, Evan Harris Walker Kafatos M Nov p47
  • The Persuit of Perfect Packing, Tomaso Aste and Denis Weaire Barham P Dec p45
  • Henry Norris Russell: Dean of American Astronomers, David DeVorkin DeVorkin D Dec p46
  • Splitting the Second: The Story of Atomic Time, Tony Jones Jones T Dec p47
  • Observing the Moon: The Modern Astronomer's Guide, Gerald North Dunkin S Dec p48
  • Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, Charles Seife Hendricks R Dec p48
  • Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger, Jagdish Mehra and Kimball Milton Brown L Dec p49
  • How the Web Was Born, James Gillies and Robert Cailliau Durrani M Dec p50
  • Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin Duff M Dec p51
  • The Triad:The Ohysicists, the analysts, the Kabbalists, Tom Keve Hoselitz K Dec p52
  • Quantum Reflections, (ed) John Ellis and Daniele Amati Whitaker A Dec p53

Careers and employment

  • Multiple choices for graduates Harris N Jan p42
  • From low temperatures to high profits Gwynne P Feb p9
  • PhD students prefer life without science Feb p10
  • Studying physics is good for your future career May p51
  • Physicist makes move into politics Jones T Jun p12
  • The rise of the young professional Jun p57
  • Let consultancy spice up your life Marsh C Jun p61
  • Bright prospects for forecasters Reid H Jul p60
  • Why do the world's leading scientists flock to the United States? Sincell M Aug p10
  • And why do they ignore Japan? Aug p11
  • Brain drains and gains Aug p15
  • Enhancing careers in physics Aug p47
  • Top pay to halt brain drain Sep p5
  • Drains on the brain Duff M Sep p19
  • So you want to do a Phd? McLeish T Oct p57

CERN

Chaos, complexity and nonlinearity

  • Patterns in chaotic mixing Deval J, Tabeling P Jan p22
  • New designs on complex patterns Morfill G and Bunk W Apr p41
  • Noise controls chaos Aug p3
  • $500 mouse challange set Gwynne P Nov p10
  • History found in a grain of sand Caves C Nov p45

Climate change and the environment

  • Potent greenhouse gasses found May p14
  • Bright future for seasonal forecasts Anderson D Oct p43
  • Sun heats up the climate-change debate Cartlidge E Nov p8

Computation and software

  • Getting to grips with the strong force Davies C and Collins S Aug p35

Condensed matter

  • Carbon nanotubes lead the way to nanotweezers Jan p3
  • Novel crystals from pressured metals Cowley R Feb p22
  • Silicon germanium makes its mark Paul D Feb p27
  • The underdoped phase of cuprate superconductors Batlogg B and Varma C Feb p33
  • Quantum mirages Mar p3
  • Fractional quantum Hall effects Heiblum M, Stern A Mar p37
  • Biodegradable MEMS Apr p3
  • Colloids reinforce glass theory Apr p22
  • DNA forms liquid crystal Jamieson V May p3
  • Surprises in self-assembled rings Bastard G May p26
  • Crystal surfaces: the devil is in the detail Balibar S Jun p26
  • Carbon nanotubes roll on Jamieson V Jun p29
  • Single-wall carbon nanotubes McEuen P Jun p31
  • Multiwall carbon nanotubes Schönenberger C and Forró L Jun p37
  • Controlling nanotube growth Dai H Jun p43
  • Industry sizes up nanotubes de Heer W, Martel R Jun p49
  • Quantum dots spot single photons Mowbray D Jul p27
  • NMR hits the road Aug p3
  • New life for Schrodinger's cat Leggett T Aug p23
  • Magnetism under the microscope Schuller Ivan K Aug p26
  • Photonic crystals Parker G and Charlton M Aug p29
  • No thing goes faster than light Steinberg A Sep p21
  • Ripples settle surface behavior Zangwill A Sep p23
  • Materials that get fatter when stretched Smith C Sep p24
  • Ferromagnetic superconductor revealed Bedell K Oct p24
  • The fractional quantum Hall effect goes organic Smet J Oct p26
  • Diamonds in the sky? Scandolo S, Chiarotti G and Tosatti E Oct p31
  • Surprises in superfluids Jamieson V Nov p3
  • New view on magnetism Nov p3
  • Liquid hydrogen turns superfluid Nov p23
  • Standing out from the giants and colossi Chien C Nov p24
  • The many states of americium Johannsson B Dec p26
  • Tin clusters foil high temperatures Haberland H Dec p27
  • Electron waves under the microscope Geim A Dec p28

Education

Energy

  • Physicists must lead on energy Jackson A Feb p17
  • Nuclear energy:part of a green future? Cartlidge E Apr p10
  • Photovoltaics in the 21st century Gwynne P Apr p11
  • Wind power: big in Denmark de Laine M Apr p12
  • Electricity warehouse will shift the balance of power Oct p12

Europe

  • Search is on for teaching talent Apr p14
  • ESA get flexible Apr p14
  • Rebirth for Europe's Cluster mission Jul p10
  • A new framework for Europe Jul p15
  • Europe heads for Mercury Oct p13
  • Physicists pull together de Laine M Nov p10

European Space Agency

  • New chapter opens in X-ray astronomy Jan p7
  • ESA get flexible Apr p14
  • Rebirth for Europe's Cluster mission Jul p10
  • Europe heads for Mercury Oct p13
  • New science chief for ESA Nov p12

European Union

Facilities

Fluid dynamics

  • Hydrodynamics makes a splash Takagi H and Sanders R Sep p39

France

  • PhD students prefer life without science Feb p10
  • France goes philosophical Mar p7
  • Allegre out after reshuffle May p6
  • Hope for French synchrotron Jun p13
  • New pole attract technology transfer Aug p12
  • Soleil back on the cards Aug p13
  • SOLEIL rises for French researchers Oct p7
  • Extra cash for French research Oct p13
  • Top French job for physicist Oct p13

Fusion

  • JET research wins reprieve Jan p8
  • A good START for fusion Snipes J Apr p24
  • The Z-pinch approach to fusion Chittenden J May p39
  • Fusion:the final frontier for plasmas Alejaldre C May p46
  • Fusion magnet passes test Jun p13
  • France bids for fusion project Sep p12
  • Fusion-reactor design outlined Nov p12

Geophysics

  • The Earth's mantle in a lab bottle Jan p3
  • Is there life below the ice? Mar p13
  • Physics charts new geological landscapes Gwynne P May p13
  • Boost for dynamo model Jun p3
  • Lenses form bad vibrations Oct p12

Germany

  • Boost for plasma physics Jul p7

History of physics

  • Dirac, Einstein and physics Zichichi A Mar p17
  • Lise Meitner: a nuclear heroine? Kragh, H Mar p45
  • Einstein 1, Dirac 1 Grujic P May p19
  • How Briatain was saved by radar Brown R H May p45
  • Great physicists recalled and respected Berry M Jun p56
  • Heisenberg hoax puts author in a spin Jul p7
  • 1932: the annus mirabilis of nuclear physics? Hughes J Jul p43
  • Celebrating a nation's neglected hero Hughes J Oct p50
  • Max Planck: the reluctant revolutionary Kragh H Dec p31

Industry and innovation

  • UK investment lags behind Jan p7
  • Advice for the high-tech entrepreneur Chapchal D Jan p36
  • From low temperatures to high profits Gwynne P Feb p9
  • US industry raises R&D spend Feb p12
  • Behind closed doors Feb p13
  • Displays firm signals a global ambition Mar p9
  • BT and Corning join forces Mar p9
  • UK must improve innovation Mar p13
  • Industry warms to superconductors Tallon J Mar p27
  • The rise and rise of the mobile phone Kalloj&#228rvi K Mar p33
  • Japan seeks to commercialize research Apr p6
  • Marconi breeds new culture of growth Apr p8
  • How to build your own high-tech firm Smith D Apr p48
  • Toshiba gets a taste for basic research May p8
  • Switzerland plans futuristic train link May p9
  • Tips for the physicist as entrepreneur May p48
  • Hewlett-Packard sets a quantum vision Jun p6
  • Boost for hadron therapy Jun p9
  • Physics sorts the wheat from the chaff Bee S Jun p24
  • Industry sizes up nanotubes de Heer W, Martel R Jun p49
  • UK loses ground in optics boom Cartlidge E Jul p5
  • High-energy campaigner for physics Cartlidge E Jul p11
  • How to survive the 21st century McInerney J Jul p17
  • Investing in the business of physics Partridge S Jul p57
  • Corning injects life into BT photonics lab Durrani M Sep p7
  • BNFL emerges from its nuclear winter Cartlidge E Sep p10
  • Collaborations win in industry Burns A and Brook R Oct p16

Institute of Physics

  • Ensuring a healthy future for physics Jones A Jan p38
  • Congress 2000 focuses on the future of physics degrees Jan p39
  • British physics under the spotlight Feb p45
  • Institute council, senior staff and honorary officers Feb p47
  • Congress aims to hit the high notes Mar p49
  • Physicists chill out at awards dinner Mar p50
  • Schools to benefit from free affiliation Mar p51
  • Council news: chartered scientist status takes shape Mar p52
  • Something for everyone at the Brighton congress May p48
  • The rise of the young professional Jun p57
  • Institute notches up third Queen's Award for publishing Jun p58
  • The public have physics zipped up Jun p59
  • Students get a taste of particle physics Jun p59
  • Policy issues Cartlidge E Jun p59
  • Council news: Institue prepares five-year strategy Jun p60
  • Investing in the business of physics Partridge S Jul p57
  • Institute celebrates milestone in chartered engineering scheme Foulks D Jul p58
  • Enhancing careers in physics Aug p47
  • Big take-up for new syllabus Aug p48
  • Institute opens Chinese office Aug p49
  • New membership structure okayed Sep p52
  • Council news: strategy outlined Sep p52
  • Turning school students onto physics Thompson S Oct p53
  • Institute's new president takes over Oct p55
  • Teaching to be scrutinized Cartlidge E Nov p10
  • Inspiring students to take up physics Jennings B Nov p49
  • Congress update: Physics In Action Nov p50
  • Physics education gets a face lift Nov p50
  • 2001 Institute of Physics awards Dec p55
  • Institute elects new honorary fellows Dec p60

International

Internet

  • Can the Grid succeed the Web? Warmbein B May p11

Ireland

  • Boost for Irish science Apr p14

Italy

  • A brave new world for Italian higher education Oct p9

Japan

  • Japan cuts rocket losses Jan p11
  • Physics takes centre stage Feb p8
  • Pioneer quits Japan for US Mar p12
  • Japan funds promising physics Jun p13
  • Physics helps solve protein structures Jul p8
  • Japan cuts industrial research Jul p13
  • And why do they ignore Japan? Aug p11
  • Japan pumps money into IT Oct p13

Lasers and optics

  • Photonic crystals in 3-D Jan p3
  • Laser star could clean up observations Jan p6
  • Nuclear physics with lasers Cairns A Jan p17
  • Experimental attosecond science makes its debut Corkum P Feb p23
  • No mirrors, no problem Apr p8
  • Adaptive optics brings full sky into focus Mountain M and Rigaut F Apr p25
  • Terahertz imaging comes into view Arnone D, Ciesla C and Pepper M Apr p35
  • Dielectric mirrors set to shine on May p3
  • Seeing organic displays in a new light Lane P May p23
  • Optics goes to the limit Jun p3
  • Light runs backwards in time Pendry J Jun p27
  • Beyond the speed of light Jul p3
  • UK loses ground in optics boom Cartlidge E Jul p5
  • Light fantastic Jul p15
  • Diamond: a laser's best friend Pickles C S J and Sussmann R S Jul p25
  • Quantum dots spot single photons Mowbray D Jul p27
  • Optical data storage enters a new dimension IBM Holographic Storage Team I Jul p37
  • Photons singled out Aug p3
  • UK unveils new gallium-nitride facility Aug p12
  • Table-top laser produces X-ray beams Tallents G Aug p27
  • Photonic crystals Parker G and Charlton M Aug p29
  • Frequency chains get short shift Oct p3
  • Novel material in focus Dec p3

Lateral thoughts

  • Making something out of nothing Bateman S Jan p52
  • An index of risk Calverd A Feb p60
  • My friend and his hysteretic sandwich Monteiro, L H A Mar p72
  • In defence of anoraks Weidberg T Apr p64
  • For the love of three quarks Burrows P May p68
  • On poms, nerds and bus kiosks Eades J Jun p72
  • A story of greed and gold Greene D Jul p72
  • Fit to be a physicist Baumberg J Aug p60
  • Let's get emotional about science Papacosta P Sep p64
  • Points mean prizes Heath H Oct p68
  • Sleeping with models Marshall I Nov p64

Low-temperature physics

  • Quantum fluids create a stir in the lab Adams C, McCann J Jan p20
  • Simplicity works for superfluid helium Bowley R Feb p24

Mathematical and statistical physics

Metrology

  • Measurement matters May p15
  • Standards lab has a weighty mission Durrani M Jul p9
  • Defining moments in the history of time Bauch A Dec p47

Miscellaneous

  • The music of earthquakes Mar p6
  • Physicist refuses to bet on the dogs Mar p12
  • Science and the Stradivarius Gough C Apr p27
  • Physicists probe the paranormal Durrani M May p5
  • Physics and archaeology David A and Linford N May p27
  • Art and science draw together Cartlidge E Jun p8
  • Religious physicist with faith in science Durani M Jun p10
  • God's library through Einstein's eyes Pinsent A Jun p55
  • How do scorpions locate their prey? Jul p3
  • Heisenberg hoax puts author in a spin Jul p7
  • Science given an artistic licence Jaroszynski D and McNeil B Jul p51
  • Hawking slams "stupid and worthless" play Aug p8
  • Galileo's part-time poetry Aug p8
  • Physics goes for gold Sep p27
  • Physics, technology and the Olympics Haake S Sep p29
  • The physics of twisting somersaults Yeadon F Sep p33
  • Hydrodynamics makes a splash Takagi H and Sanders R Sep p39
  • Positive bias to paranormal claims Josephson B Oct p20
  • Hawking: the cardboard creation Barbour J Oct p49

Nuclear physics

  • Physics gets dark and exotic Jan p13
  • Nuclear physics with lasers Cairns A Jan p17
  • Exploring nuclear frontiers Regan P, Blank B Jan p29
  • CERN claims quark-gluon first Mar p5
  • First collisions seen at RHIC Jul p13
  • 1932: the annus mirabilis of nuclear physics? Hughes J Jul p43
  • Nuclear magic numbers appear and disappear Al-Khalili J Aug p24
  • A strange quark plasma Quercigh E and Rafelski J Oct p37
  • New beam energises Indian research Mudur G Nov p7

Nuclear power

  • Nuclear energy:part of a green future? Cartlidge E Apr p10
  • Magnox closure announced Jul p13
  • BNFL emerges from its nuclear winter Cartlidge E Sep p10

Nuclear weapons

  • Row over test-ban evidence Feb p12
  • Recalling Britain's key nuclear role Arnold L Feb p17

Obituaries

  • Gron Jones Jan p40
  • Dennis Sciama Feb p11
  • Charles Wynne Mar p53
  • Hendrik Casimir Jul p12
  • Sir Mark Oliphant Aug p13
  • John Thresher Oct p54
  • Joeseph Webber Nov p12

Particle physics

Philosophy of science

  • Facing up to ethical challenges Lerch I Feb p15
  • France goes philosophical Mar p7
  • Vision of physics that warrants revision Ziman J Mar p46
  • Science: A messy and clumsy business Pestre, D Mar p47
  • Physicists probe the paranormal Durrani M May p5
  • Why science thrives on criticism Crease R May p17
  • Religious physicist with faith in science Durani M Jun p10
  • Dedications: that's what you need Crease R Jun p19
  • Thomas Khun's best selling philosophy Collins H Jul p52
  • A new conception of science Maxwell N Aug p17
  • The competitive edge in science Sep p17

Plasma physics

  • Boost for plasma physics Jul p7
  • Table-top laser produces X-ray beams Tallents G Aug p27
  • Materials that get fatter when stretched Smith C Sep p24

Publishing and public understanding

  • Magazine attack prompts DESY debate Jan p5
  • Cambridge research most cited Jan p11
  • Literate physicist gets taste for fiction Feb p6
  • Public seeks new dialogue Feb p6
  • Unknown story makes headline Feb p12
  • What price journals in an electronic era? Sincell M Mar p10
  • World order upset by new citation study Mar p11
  • Beyond understanding Apr p15
  • Case of the deadly strangelets Crease R Jul p19
  • The dangers of voodoo science Crease R Aug p19
  • Science centres face the future McCrory P Sep p15
  • Promoting physics to the public Sep p49
  • Beyond understanding 2 Rodgers P Oct p15
  • Physics, metaphorically speaking Crease R Nov p17
  • Students enjoy trip round the universe Nov p50
  • A top ten for science and society P Crease R Dec p17

Quantum physics

  • The silicon route to quantum computing Jan p9
  • Revealing the cat in the box Feb p3
  • First for quantum triplets Mar p3
  • Fractional quantum Hall effects Heiblum M, Stern A Mar p37
  • Two more quantum firsts Apr p3
  • Impossible things usually don't happen Peres A May p47
  • Cryptography's quantum barrier Lo H Jun p17
  • Single-wall carbon nanotubes McEuen P Jun p31
  • Multiwall carbon nanotubes Schönenberger C and Forró L Jun p37
  • Quantum largesse Aug p15
  • New life for Schrodinger's cat Leggett T Aug p23
  • Chips get closer to quantum computing Ed Hinds Aug p25
  • Breaking through the quantum limit Sep p3
  • Atoms go quantum computing Sep p12
  • Light beats quantum mechanics Jeffers J Nov p27
  • Max Planck: the reluctant revolutionary Kragh H Dec p31
  • Quantum mechanics with single atoms and photons Rempe G Dec p37

Russia

  • Secret cities seek longer-term support Feb p8

Semiconductors and electronics

  • Molecular electronics on the cheap Klauk H Jan p18
  • Vertical devices take off Schulz M Mar p22
  • Semiconductors put spin in spintronics Weiss D Mar p23
  • Semiconductor makes atomic diffusion clearer Dec p3

Space science and the solar system

  • NASA under the spotlight Jan p6
  • Astronomers fly higher and smaller Mar p6
  • The far side of the Sun Apr p3
  • Comet tail breaks record May p3
  • Doing Mars on the cheap May p12
  • Rebirth for Europe's Cluster mission Jul p10
  • Space weather: physics and forecasts Luhman J Jul p31
  • Ethics in space moves up the agenda Aug p6
  • Uk tackles space invaders Oct p13
  • Diamonds in the sky? Scandolo S, Chiarotti G and Tosatti E Oct p31
  • What price science on the space station? Gwynne P Nov p11
  • Not the right stuff Rodgers P Nov p13
  • Space-weather flares up Zirin H Nov p19
  • Rock blasts in from the past Russell S Dec p25

Superconductivity

Switzerland

  • Switzerland plans futuristic train link May p9

UK

  • UK physics gains funding boost Jan p5
  • Reversal of fortunes in UK Feb p5
  • British physics under the spotlight Feb p45
  • DIAMOND: it's not too late Mar p15
  • Daresbury lab faces bleak future Apr p5
  • Theory group up for grabs Apr p7
  • UK telescope to be built in Chile Apr p14
  • May set for Royal Society Apr p14
  • Boost for UK physics facilities Cartlidge E May p14
  • Diamond fall-out seen from inside Dainton J May p19
  • Panel backs physics in the UK Jun p5
  • Universities get top marks for teaching Jun p6
  • UK may join ESO Jun p6
  • UK sells off defense R&D Jun p7
  • Physicist makes move into politics Jones T Jun p12
  • How good is physics in the UK? Jun p15
  • UK loses ground in optics boom Cartlidge E Jul p5
  • Standards lab has a weighty mission Durrani M Jul p9
  • UK launches science council Jul p13
  • Cash injection for UK science Aug p5
  • Top pay to halt brain drain Sep p5
  • DERA physicists prepare to go private Durrani M Oct p6
  • UK faces teaching crisis Oct p13
  • UK plasma physics in state of decline Allen J Oct p19
  • Teaching to be scrutinized Cartlidge E Nov p10
  • King is new scientific advisor Nov p12
  • PPARC debates its structure Nov p12
  • Teachers wave golden goodbye Peters T Nov p19

US

  • NASA under the spotlight Jan p6
  • Brookhaven reactor to close Jan p11
  • Physical sciences share national wealth Mar p8
  • Key test for missile system Jun p6
  • US plots a path to success Jun p11
  • Secrecy regulations hinder scientists Gwynne P Jul p6
  • Why do the world's leading scientists flock to the United States? Sincell M Aug p10
  • Star Wars project in trouble Aug p13
  • US seeks to lighten the post-PhD blues Oct p9
  • Six-year delay for US laser Oct p13
  • What price science on the space station? Gwynne P Nov p11

Women in physics

  • Lise Meitner: a nuclear heroine? Kragh, H Mar p45
  • Fresh ideas to help women in science Apr p9
  • Collaborating with the enemy? Apr p17
  • Competing views on girls in physics Arend P Jun p21
  • Female professors: still a rare breed Holgate S A Sep p8
  • Women make slow progress in the US Gwynne P Sep p9
  • MIT physicists recieve high-profile promotions Gwynne P Sep p9