Print edition - index 2000

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

• Molecular condensate Mar p3
• Amplifier means gains for atom optics Meystre P Mar p24
• Beyond the speed of light Jul p3
• Theory, experiment and fine structure Sapirstein J Jul p28
• CERN opens antimatter factory Sep p5
• No thing goes faster than light Steinberg A Sep p21
• Tin clusters foil high temperatures Haberland H Dec p27
• Quantum mechanics with single atoms and photons Rempe G Dec p37

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

• CERN claims quark-gluon first Mar p5
• CERN prepares for the LHC and beyond Rodgers P May p10
• CERN opens antimatter factory Sep p5
• CERN extends search for Higgs Jamieson V Oct p5
• CERN split over collider closure Cartlidge E Dec p5

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

• Good teaching for good research Krane K Jan p14
• Practical hints for classy demos Palmer K Jan p35
• Search is on for teaching talent Apr p14
• Outstanding teachers gain recognition Apr p50
• Teachers debate new A-levels May p49
• Teachers to get help to teach physics May p50
• Goals are set for physics education May p50
• Universities get top marks for teaching Jun p6
• How to survive the 21st century McInerney J Jul p17
• Top marks awarded to Chinese students Cartlidge E Aug p7
• Make a mark in European teaching Aug p48
• New era for European Universities Cartlidge E and Warmbein B Oct p8
• Physics takes centre stage Dec p6
• No more lectures any more? Raine D Dec p15

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

• Search is on for teaching talent Apr p14
• A new framework for Europe Jul p15

Facilities

• DIAMOND: it's not too late Mar p15
• Dedications: that's what you need Crease R Jun p19

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

• World order upset by new citation study Mar p11
• Top marks awarded to Chinese students Cartlidge E Aug p7
• Bridging the North-South divide Nov p15
• Philanthropist funds Canadian institute Dec p7

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

• Can physics save fish stocks? Magnússon K G Feb p21
• The music of earthquakes Mar p6
• Physicist refuses to bet on the dogs Mar p12
• Strings draw theorists together Green M Mar p21

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

• Magazine attack prompts DESY debate Jan p5
• Europe approves long-range neutrino experiment Jan p11
• Physics gets dark and exotic Jan p13
• The search for dark matter Smith N, Spooner N Jan p23
• Neutrons caught in trap Feb p3
• Neutrino factory gathers momentum Feb p7
• CERN claims quark-gluon first Mar p5
• Strings draw theorists together Green M Mar p21
• Dark-matter dispute intensifies Avignone F T Apr p21
• CERN prepares for the LHC and beyond Rodgers P May p10
• Strange quarks put the proton in a spin Manohar A May p24
• High-energy campaigner for physics Cartlidge E Jul p11
• Tau neutrino discovered Aug p13
• Getting to grips with the strong force Davies C and Collins S Aug p35
• Results from new B factories Sep p12
• Supersymmetry makes its case Townsend P Sep p45
• CERN extends search for Higgs Jamieson V Oct p5
• Electron scattering sheds light on the strong force Close F Oct p28
• A strange quark plasma Quercigh E and Rafelski J Oct p37
• Quintessence Nov p31
• The search for extra dimensions Abel S and March-Russell J Nov p39

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

• The underdoped phase of cuprate superconductors Batlogg B and Varma C Feb p33
• Industry warms to superconductors Tallon J Mar p27
• Superconducting ladders take breather Floria L Apr p23
• Superconducting gains Jul p3
• US backs superconductor research Jul p8
• Breaking through the quantum limit Sep p3
• Superconductivity leaves the lab Burgoyne J Oct p23
• Frosty reception to new superconductor thaws Tallon J Nov p25

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