Print edition - index 2001

Acoustics

• Acoustic surgery Vaezy S, Martin R and Crum L Aug p35

Applications

• Sound waves deliver a faster pint Jan p21
• Sensors reveal the secrets of car tyres Jan p22
• Phone capacity trebles Feb p3
• The physics of the perfect putt Gwynne P Feb p11
• GPS and skiing Feb p12
• Nanoelectromechanical systems face the future Roukes M Feb p25
• Material gain for MRI Mar p3
• Physicists use chaos to calm the web Mar p7
• Avalanche physics ploughs ahead Bartelt P, Othmar B Mar p25
• Technological plasmas Graham B Mar p31
• US army turns on the heat Apr p8
• From astronomy to big business Durrani M Apr p32
• Nanotechnology: an industry still on the starting blocks Cartlidge E Apr p42
• Particles for profits Jamieson V Apr p44
• Triumph of the small business Durrani M Apr p47
• Because you're worth it Leroy F May p22
• Water droplets make an impact Bergeron V, Quéré D May p27
• The impact of physics research Kostoff R and del Rio J Jun p47
• Small tyre firm bursts into the big time Jul p7
• Electronics turns over a new leaf Berggren M and Kugler T Jul p21
• Will a chip every day keep the doctor away? Canham L and Aston R Jul p27
• Optical imaging helps new-born babies Gould P Aug p9
• Acoustic surgery Vaezy S, Martin R and Crum L Aug p35
• Portable MRI moves closer Sep p8
• Communicating by chaos Sep p9
• Grenoble builds up nanotech research Sep p12
• Ultrafast cameras streak ahead Honour J Sep p21
• Beating the diffraction limit Sandoghdar V Sep p29
• London college opens novel MRI centre Oct p8
• Breath-tests for water Nov p3
• Weapons plant turns to medical goods Nov p8

Astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology

• Taking Galileo into space Jan p7
• Black holes go supersonic Leonhardt U Feb p20
• A reference point to the cosmos Rowan-Robinson M Mar p43
• Dark matter seen directly Apr p13
• Spectacular exposure to solar eclipses Koutchmy S Apr p50
• Boost for dark energy May p3
• Microwaves map cosmic origins Cartlidge E Jun p5
• Star gives good vibrations Elsworth Y Jun p28
• A new vision for X-rays Jul p3
• Gamma-ray experiment hits new highs Jul p6
• When is a constant not a constant? Sep p3
• Enlightenment comes to the cosmic dark age Sep p3
• Reaching for the skies Cartlidge E Oct p7
• Constant trouble Oct p19
• Life, the cosmos and everything Carr B Oct p23
• When constants are not constant Carilli C Oct p26
• A quantum leap for cosmology Smolin L Nov p19
• Secrets and surprises of the Sun Parker E Nov p43
• New light on the first star Dec p3
• Opening a new window on the universe Moore J Dec p10
• Virtual observer unifies data Dec p13
• Cosmic double helix Dec p27
• The reality of a brane new world Silk J Dec p43

Atomic and molecular physics

• Atomic clocks Lemonde P Jan p39
• Speed of light reaches zero Feb p7
• Black holes go supersonic Leonhardt U Feb p20
• Could water vapour be the culprit in global warming? Maurellis A Feb p22
• Ultracold plasmas come of age Gould P, Eyler E Mar p19
• A double first close to absolute zero Apr p3
• Clusters challenge common sense Jarrold M Apr p23
• Ultrafast electron diffraction shapes up Helliwell J Apr p25
• Triple first for Bose condensates Foot C May p21
• Molecular storage ring makes its debut Gould H Jul p22
• Magnetic chips and quantum circuits for atoms Hinds E Jul p39
• Condensates made easy Aug p3
• Quantum electrodynamics in the dark Gillaspy J Aug p25
• A new twist for magnetic moments Drake G Sep p23
• Atomic clocks speed up Riehle F Oct p27
• Condensates reap Nobel reward Rodgers P Nov p5
• Collisions feel the cold MacAdam K Dec p24

Australia

• ...Australia gets A$155m Apr p7
• Bright lights in Australia Jun p7
• Australia opts for X-ray lab Aug p6
• Australia launches into space Aug p13
• Australia dishes out funds Oct p12

Awards and prizes

• Crafoord prize goes to Connes Mar p12
• Holweck prize gets nonlinear winner Mar p47
• 2001 Teachers' award winners Mar p47
• EPS honours particle physicists Aug p13
• Sounds good for Physics World Aug p13
• Biophysicist bags Dirac medal Sep p13
• Neutron scatterer honoured Sep p29
• Rees wins cosmolgy prize Oct p12
• Condensates reap Nobel reward Rodgers P Nov p5
• NAnotubes win European prizes Nov p12
• Shower research honoured Nov p12
• Nobel population 1901-50: anatomy of a scientific elite Crawford E Nov p31
• 2002 Institute of Physics awards Dec p53

Biophysics

• Ultrasound on the brain Jan p3
• A healthy future for physicists Clark J Jan p53
• Electric potential for DNA Feb p7
• New treatment for Parkinson's disease Mar p6
• Physics on drugs Mar p18
• UK seeds interdisciplinary research... Gould P Apr p10
• ...as new institutes take shape in the US Sincell M Apr p11
• Soft condensed matter: where physics meets biology Poon W, McLeish T, Donald A May p33
• Yeah, but what about the crayfish? Cartlidge E Jul p8
• Will a chip every day keep the doctor away? Canham L and Aston R Jul p27
• Optical imaging helps new-born babies Gould P Aug p9
• Electronic properties of DNA Dekker C and Ratner M Aug p29
• Acoustic surgery Vaezy S, Martin R and Crum L Aug p35
• Physicists continue to shift to life sciences Sep p7
• Portable MRI moves closer Sep p8
• Biophysicists make the first neuronal chip Oct p8
• London college opens novel MRI centre Oct p8
• Biological physics hits the high life Parak F Oct p28
• Healthy prospects in medical physics Kotre J Oct p46
• In harmony with the birds Dec p3

Books reviewed

• A Tribble's Guide to Space: How to get to Space and What to do When you Get There, Alan Tribble Turner R Jan p45
• Views of a Physicist: Selected Papers of N G van Kampen, Paul Meijer ter Haar D Jan p46
• The Bigger Bang, James Lidsey Adams F Jan p47
• E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation, David Bodanis Durrani M Jan p48
• Time For Science Education: How Teaching the History and Philosophy of Pendulum Motion Can Contribute to Science Literacy, Michael Matthews Slade I Feb p47
• The Science of Cooking, Peter Barham Donald A Feb p48
• Visualisations: The Nature Book of Art and Science, Martin Kemp Durrani M Feb p49
• Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Paul Murdin (ed) Rowan-Robinson M Mar p43
• Why nothing really matters to physicists Magueijo J Mar p44
• Standard setting in radiation protection Mills W Mar p45
• Faith, Science and Understanding, John Polkinghorn McLeish T Apr p49
• Glorious Eclipses: Their Past, Present and Future, Serge Brunier and Jean-Pierre Luminet Koutchmy S Apr p50
• The Hilbert Challange, Jeremy Gray Lambourne R Apr p51
• The wizard of Quarks: A Fantasy of Particle Physics , Robert Gilmore King S May p46
• The New Chemistry, Nina Hall (ed) Meurig Thomas J May p47
• Mathematics Unlimited: 2001 and Beyond, Bjorn Enquist and Wilfried Schmid (eds) Durrani M May p48
• Crypto: Secrecy and Privacy in the New Code War, Steven Levy Lo H Jun p53
• Into the Antiworld Pennicott K Jun p54
• Einstein and the Ether, Ludwik Kostro Stachel J Jun p55
• Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond, Lawerence Krauss Fritzsch H Jun p56
• Mad About Physics: Braintwisters, Paradoxes and Curiousities, Christopher Jargodski and Franklin Potter Ford P Jul p45
• Magnetic Ventures: The Story of Oxford Instruments, Audrey Wood Kerley N Jul p46
• The Command of Light: Rowland's School of Physics and the Spectrum, George Kean Sweenam Stuewer R Jul p47
• Are There Really Neutrinos?: An Evidential History, Franklin Allen Barbieri R Aug p41
• Genesis of the Big Bang, Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman Lineweaver C Aug p42
• Nine Crazy Ideas in Science: A Few Might Even Be True, Robert Ehrlich Perkowitz S Aug p43
• The Northern Lights: How One Man Sacrificed Love, Happiness and Sanity to Unlock the Secrets of Space, Lucy Jago Smith R Sep p53
• Britain and The H-Bomb, Lorna Arnold Jones P Sep p54
• Space: Our Final Frontier, John Gribbin Durrani M Sep p55
• Newton's Gift, David Berlinski Rowlands P Oct p55
• Science, Money and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion, Daniel Greenberg Gibbons J Oct p56
• The Coming of Materials Science, Robert Cahn Hirsch P Oct p57
• Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of Our Sun, Leon Golub and Jay Pasachoff Parker E Nov p43
• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Sun, Kenneth Lang Parker E Nov p43
• The Wonders of Physics, Lev Aslamazov and Andrei Varlamov Welsh R Nov p44
• The One Culture? A Conversation about Science, Jay Labinger and Harry Collins (ed) Pickering A Nov p45
• The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking Silk J Dec p43
• The Science Book, Peter Tallack (ed) Anderson P Dec p44
• How To Build a Time Machine, Paul Davies Durrani M Dec p45
• Schonland: Scientist and Soldier, Brian Austin Pease S Dec p46
• Superstrings and Other Things: A Guide to Physics, Carlos Calle McClintock P Dec p47
• Time Travel in Einstein's Universe: The Physical Possibility of Travel Through Time, J Richard Gott Zeh D Dec p48
• Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics, Jed Buchwald and Andrew Warwick Dahl P Dec p49
• What Shape is a Snowflake?: Magical Numbers in Nature, Ian Stewart Durrani M Dec p50

Canada

• New TRIUMF bolsters Canadian physics Sep p9
• Canada nurtures nanotech Oct p12

Careers and employment

• Wanted: teachers young or old Gould P Jan p5
• A healthy future for physicists Clark J Jan p53
• Improving the plight of the post-doc Pennicott K Feb p51
• Get connected with the IT world McNally P Jun p63
• Big bucks for physicists Jul p13
• Physics and work Jul p15
• Elder statesman heads for Cambridge Sep p7
• Physicists continue to shift to life sciences Sep p7
• Physicists push themselves to the limit Gould P Sep p11
• PhDs are worth more for women Gehring G Sep p16
• Magazine firing backfires Oct p10
• Career options for physicists Durrani M, Jamieson V Oct p31
• From physics to computing Loh E Oct p33
• Applying science to electronics Walton E Oct p34
• A career in the defence industry Morrison J Oct p35
• What it's like to teach physics Searle K Oct p36
• Love and the two-body problem Jamieson V Oct p37
• Students must turn to soft skills Durrani M Oct p38
• So just how good is your salary? Cartlidge E Oct p41
• Sun, sea and Spanish science Hill D Oct p43
• Jobs in publishing and the media Durrani M Oct p44
• Healthy prospects in medical physics Kotre J Oct p46
• Finance: not all rocket science Tutas J Oct p47
• How to get the job you really want Jamieson V Oct p48
• Changing your career direction Durrani M Oct p49
• Is there life for you after work? Hill D Oct p51
• Have physics degree - will try anything Rodgers P Oct p52
• The Institute of Physics salary survey Cartlidge E Oct p59
• American society elects UK president Nov p6
• Are physicists useful? Ridley B Dec p16

CERN

• Should LEP have been closed? Callot O Feb p15
• CERN is hit by rising costs Cartlidge E Nov p7
• Trouble at CERN Nov p13

Chaos, complexity and nonlinearity

• Physicists use chaos to calm the web Mar p7
• Optical billiards break new ground in quantum chaos Sridhar S May p23
• Yeah, but what about the crayfish? Cartlidge E Jul p8
• The physics of the Web Barabási A Jul p33
• Communicating by chaos Sep p9
• Chaos gives quantum tunnelling a hand Ullmo D, Mouchet A Sep p24
• Physicist who makes cash from chaos Gwynne P Oct p9

Climate change and the environment

• Hole in ozone layer Jan p13
• Could water vapour be the culprit in global warming? Maurellis A Feb p22
• Pollution and clouds Rosenfeld D and Woodley W Feb p33
• The outlook looks good for weather forecasters Cartlidge E Dec p8

Computation and software

• Europe invests in heir to the web Feb p12
• Liquid maths gets going Apr p3
• Physicists start building the Grid Gwynne P May p5
• FORTRAN is still alive and kicking Oct p19
• From physics to computing Loh E Oct p33

Condensed matter

• Organic research goes into overdrive Gwynne P Jan p9
• Organic magnetism finally demystified Jan p24
• Revival of the Kondo effect Kouwenhoven L, Glazman L Jan p33
• New metallic molecular material can work alone Feb p3
• Electric potential for DNA Feb p7
• Vortices multiply in superfluid helium-II Adams C Feb p21
• X-rays reveal some novel optical activity van der Laan G Feb p23
• Nanoelectromechanical systems face the future Roukes M Feb p25
• Material gain for MRI Mar p3
• The search for liquid fivefold symmetry DiMasi E Mar p20
• Ions mimic the impact of meteorites Nordlund K Mar p22
• Avalanche physics ploughs ahead Bartelt P, Othmar B Mar p25
• Nanotechnology: an industry still on the starting blocks Cartlidge E Apr p42
• Engineering nanotubes May p3
• Water droplets make an impact Bergeron V, Quéré D May p27
• Soft condensed matter: where physics meets biology Poon W, McLeish T, Donald A May p33
• Semiconducting nitrogen Jun p3
• New era for quantum electronics Devoret M Jun p27
• Semiconductor fridges get into shape Solin S Jun p29
• The quantum Hall effect branches out Eisenstein J Jun p31
• Liquid marbles roll out Jul p3
• Electronics turns over a new leaf Berggren M and Kugler T Jul p21
• Colourful electrons solve puzzle of ferromagnetism Jul p24
• Surface acoustic waves go under the microscope Jul p25
• Will a chip every day keep the doctor away? Canham L and Aston R Jul p27
• Gains for nanotube transistor Aug p3
• Injection of spin for electronics Oestreich M Aug p23
• Electronic properties of DNA Dekker C and Ratner M Aug p29
• Ultrapure silicon surprises Davies G Sep p22
• Electromagnetic materials enter the negative age Pendry J Sep p47
• Carbon magnets heat up Nov p3
• Magnetism adds sparkle to combustion Pankhurst Q, Parkin I Nov p20
• Positrons go into detail Zecca A, Karwasz G Nov p21
• New paths to the ultimate theory Rodgers P Dec p5
• A marriage made for the nanoworld Lewis A Dec p25

Denmark

• Riso adjusts to new future Jul p9
• Close Riso, report says Oct p12

Education

• Raising standards in university teaching Clark P Jan p49
• Physics textbooks mislead students Feb p6
• Putting pendulums into practice Slade I Feb p47
• Making physics common sense Ryder J Mar p15
• Teacher troubles Mar p18
• Physics departments prepare for change May p49
• Physicist exposes cheats Jun p10
• Shaping the future of physics in schools Wilson C Sep p57
• Spin class Oct p3
• Making physics more attractive Brown M Oct p16
• What it's like to teach physics Searle K Oct p36
• Leicester imports student hotshots Nov p6
• Focus on schools Dec p19
• Keep your balance Dec p19

Energy

• Pollution and clouds Rosenfeld D and Woodley W Feb p33
• Renewables test French nuclear loyalty Jun p11
• Do we need nuclear power? Hodgson P and Anderson D Jun p16
• Radiation budget is called to account Maurellis A Nov p22

Europe

• Take me to the stars Cartlidge E May p10
• Europe gets advisory council Jul p13

European Space Agency

• Take me to the stars Cartlidge E May p10
• Europe looks to expand space science Sep p12
• A raw deal for European space science Cartlidge E Dec p6

European Union

• EU calls for Framework boost Apr p13

Facilities

• Nuetron update Jan p20
• New head of ESRF outlines his priorities Feb p8
• Europe poised to receive neutron boost Sep p8
• Analysts warn of reactor threat Dec p13

Fluid dynamics

• All in a flap Jan p3

France

• French nuclear firms to merge Jan p13
• Giacobino given top French job Apr p13
• Renewables test French nuclear loyalty Jun p11
• France picks research boss... Aug p13
• Mixed news for French physics Oct p12
• Rejoicing as SPIRAL opens Nov p11
• France sets out plan for retirements Dec p8

Fusion

• Europe unites over ITER Mar p8
• Canada bids to host ITER fusion project Jul p6
• Fast ignition energizes fusion research Oct p6

Geophysics

• Radiation budget is called to account Maurellis A Nov p22

History of physics

• J Robert Oppenheimer: Proteus unbound Schweber S Feb p39
• Telling the truth about Einstein Margaritondo G Apr p17
• Solving the puzzle of Hilbert's problems Lambourne R Apr p51
• Henry Rowland: the ruler of the grating Stuewer R Jul p47
• Isaac Newton: the gifted genius Rowlands P Oct p55
• Secret letters cast light on Copenhagen Durrani M Nov p9
• Newton memorabilia on display Nov p12
• Ensuring science has a history Crease R Nov p16
• Nobel population 1901-50: anatomy of a scientific elite Crawford E Nov p31
• Striking insight into a lightning pioneer Pease S Dec p46

Industry and innovation

• AEA Technology sells its nuclear heart Jan p8
• Chief technologist quits BT Jan p8
• Sound waves deliver a faster pint Jan p21
• Sensors reveal the secrets of car tyres Jan p22
• Fusion looks for start-ups Mar p7
• Physics goes commercial Apr p15
• Physics goes commercial Durrani M Apr p27
• Laser jocks reach the big time Jamieson V Apr p28
• Making the most of fibre optics Gwynne P Apr p31
• From astronomy to big business Durrani M Apr p32
• Investors in people Apr p34
• What it's like to be in business Claridge B Apr p35
• A helping hand for spin-off firms Durrani M Apr p37
• Danish start-up joins fibre boom de Laine M Apr p40
• Andor Technology - here to last Apr p41
• Making money in the green fields of space Moore J Apr p43
• Swiss physicists sense success del Rosso A Apr p46
• Triumph of the small business Durrani M Apr p47
• Lithography firm etches a bright future May p7
• The industrial physicist who has it all Jamieson V May p9
• A beginner's guide to intellectual property Obhi H May p39
• Physics and the future of technology Cartlidge E Jun p59
• Growing a technology business potter D Jul p17
• From garden shed to global giant Kerley N Jul p46
• Marconi faces turbulent future Aug p13
• GaAs meets its match Oct p6
• Applying science to electronics Walton E Oct p34
• A career in the defence industry Morrison J Oct p35
• Microelectronics centre helps Irish firms Nov p8
• Enhancing the business of physics Fryer S Nov p47
• Blue-laser pioneer seeks his fair share Gwynne P Dec p9
• Marconi's painful centenary Dec p15

Institute of Physics

• Young members talk about physics Jan p50
• Physics education recieves a modern perspective Feb p53
• Institute council, senior staff and honorary officers Feb p56
• Policy issues Mar p48
• Council news Mar p49
• Awards recognize outstanding teachers Apr p53
• New membership structure approved Apr p53
• Institute buys top selling semiconductor title Apr p54
• Physics departments prepare for change May p49
• Nominations for membership of the Council of the Institute May p50
• Students give physics the thumbs up May p52
• Policy issues May p52
• Physics and the future of technology Cartlidge E Jun p59
• Strengthening physics in Scotland Millar G Jul p49
• Putting physics in the media spotlight Cooper P Aug p44
• Shaping the future of physics in schools Wilson C Sep p57
• Institute expands conference facilities Sep p58
• Wallace is chosen as new president Sep p59
• UK tackles student shortage Cartlidge E Oct p5
• A degree for change Oct p15
• The Institute of Physics salary survey Cartlidge E Oct p59
• Institute council, senior staff and honorary officers Oct p63
• Enhancing the business of physics Fryer S Nov p47
• Institute elects new honorary fellows Nov p48
• Tony Blair visits Institute in Wales Dec p13
• 2002 Institute of Physics awards Dec p53
• Publishing becomes child's play Dec p57
• Council news Dec p58
• Policy issues Dec p59

International

• Tax plan to slow brain drain Feb p12
• India boosts science spending Apr p13
• Emotions run high in race for collider Cartlidge E Aug p10
• India - Students shun physics for computing Sep p6

Ireland

• Windfall for Irish science Mar p10
• Trinity college picks physicist Apr p13
• Astronomers angered by lack of funding Jun p8
• Irish physics reaps rewards Sep p13
• Welcome to Ireland Sep p15
• Microelectronics centre helps Irish firms Nov p8

Italy

• Italy faces challange of reform Cartlidge E Sep p5
• Returning to the Fermi level Sep p15
• Italy after Fermi Nov p12
• Bad news for Italian physicists Dec p13

Lasers and optics

• First light on silicon lasers Jan p7
• Glow worm Feb p3
• Speed of light reaches zero Feb p7
• Silicon lasers start to take shape Fauchet P Feb p19
• Shortcut for X-ray pulses Mar p3
• Silicon LED Apr p3
• Shedding new light on an old effect Afanasiev G Apr p26
• Laser jocks reach the big time Jamieson V Apr p28
• Making the most of fibre optics Gwynne P Apr p31
• Photonic crystals blaze a trail Jamieson V Apr p39
• Danish start-up joins fibre boom de Laine M Apr p40
• Multicolour rubber laser Jun p3
• Get in a spin Jun p3
• Quantum carpets, carpets of light Berry M, Marzoli I and Schleich W Jun p39
• Ultraviolet nanolaser Jul p3
• Optical imaging helps new-born babies Gould P Aug p9
• Light strings draw together Moloney J Aug p28
• Ultrafast cameras streak ahead Honour J Sep p21
• Rewriting the laws of optics Rodgers P and Jamieson V Sep p27
• Beating the diffraction limit Sandoghdar V Sep p29
• Taming light with cold atoms Hau L Sep p35
• From femtochemistry to attophysics Krausz F Sep p41
• Electromagnetic materials enter the negative age Pendry J Sep p47
• Lasers diffract electrons Oct p3
• American society elects UK president Nov p6
• Blue-laser pioneer seeks his fair share Gwynne P Dec p9
• A marriage made for the nanoworld Lewis A Dec p25

Lateral thoughts

• Thoughts of a carbon atom Hammond R Jan p64
• Counting pebbles on Brighton Beach Cornwall M Feb p72
• Buddhism, bosons and beliefs Moon B Mar p64
• The two principles of Hasegawa Groves-Kirby C Apr p68
• Career dynamics and least action Salter D May p68
• The music of the spheres Martin J Jun p76
• The temperature of heaven and hell Perez J Jul p68
• How to create and publish a great theory Notton J Aug p56
• Space feud Wright P Sep p72
• selling philosophy Jenkins S Oct p80
• Interpreting the interpretations Dowling J Nov p64

Mathematical and statistical physics

• The bible for theorists goes electronic Apr p9
• New paths to the ultimate theory Rodgers P Dec p5
• Physicists go for goal Dec p6

Metrology

• Atomic clocks Lemonde P Jan p39
• Helping "big G" get back on track Aug p5
• Physics sets the international standard Cartlidge E Nov p10

Miscellaneous

• The physics of the perfect putt Gwynne P Feb p11
• Explosive views of art and science Durrani M Feb p49
• Facing up to the mystery of God McLeish T Apr p49
• Britney bridges the gap May p6
• Physicist who makes cash from chaos Gwynne P Oct p9
• Bee's knees Nov p3
• A love for physics that comes at a price Welsh R Nov p44
• In harmony with the birds Dec p3
• Surely you're joking? Dec p21

Netherlands

• Holland gets new nano-centre Oct p12
• The Netherlands backs women Nov p12

Nuclear physics

• On the road to two-proton radioactivity Jan p23
• Telling left from right in the nucleus Clark R Apr p24
• Nuclear symmetry enters a new phase Van Isacker P Aug p24
• New TRIUMF bolsters Canadian physics Sep p9
• 118 discovery claim retracted Sep p13
• New era for gamma rays Oct p10
• Rejoicing as SPIRAL opens Nov p11
• Cleaning up our nuclear waste Ireland D, Al-Khalili J Nov p14
• Nuclei prompt stellar rethink Shotter A Dec p23

Nuclear power

• Plans to resurrect US nuclear power Jun p10
• Do we need nuclear power? Hodgson P and Anderson D Jun p16
• Society seen as biggest threat to storage Jul p12
• Nuclear power: the case for... Aug p19
• BNFL gets approval for MOX Nov p12
• Cleaning up our nuclear waste Ireland D, Al-Khalili J Nov p14

Nuclear weapons

• The true story of Britain's H-bomb tests Jones P Sep p54

Obituaries

• Louis Neel Jan p11
• Lochlainn O'Rafertaigh Jan p13
• Arthur Bailey Feb p55
• Leonard Mandel Apr p12
• Ugo Fano Apr p13
• Clifford Shull May p12
• Jack Allen Jun p12
• Raymond Andrew Jul p13
• Nikolai Basov Aug p12
• Sir Fred Hoyle Burbidge G Oct p11

Particle physics

• Should LEP have been closed? Callot O Feb p15
• Muons threaten Standard Model Pennicott K Mar p5
• US researchers plot high-energy future Gwynne P Mar p9
• Linear collider race gets serious Apr p5
• Matter-antimatter anticlimax Apr p13
• Particles for profits Jamieson V Apr p44
• Antimatter puzzles multiply Jun p13
• Do muons point to new physics? Jun p24
• Solar neutrino puzzle is solved Pennicott K Jul p5
• Emotions run high in race for collider Cartlidge E Aug p10
• New doubts over CERN Higgs Aug p13
• Straight choices Aug p15
• A quantum leap for cosmology Smolin L Nov p19
• Neutrinos weigh down theorists Dec p3
• Accident grounds neutrino laboratory Dec p7
• Beefing up the strong force Schierholz G Dec p26

Philosophy of science

• Revenge of the science writer P Crease R Mar p17
• Crackpots and their convictions May p14
• Crackpot spotting Jun p23
• Labs as crucibles of uncertainty Crease R Jul p16
• What's your philosophy? Crease R Oct p18
• Sociology vs science: the war drags on Pickering A Nov p45
• The One Culture? A Conversation about Science, Jay Labinger and Harry Collins (ed) Pickering A Nov p45

Plasma physics

• Ultracold plasmas come of age Gould P, Eyler E Mar p19
• Technological plasmas Graham B Mar p31

Publishing and public understanding

• Are you a technophile? Jan p13
• Science fiction in the classroom Jan p14
• Welcome to 2001 Jan p15
• Science and The Simpsons Jan p19
• Do physics and politics mix? Feb p17
• Solutions to the scientific divide Crease R Apr p16
• US physicists dominate world top 100 Jun p7
• Belfast confused by mystery questions Jun p8
• The impact of physics research Kostoff R and del Rio J Jun p47
• Protest against astrology Jul p7
• Leicester space centre blasts off Durrani M Jul p10
• Web server celebrates a decade of hits Gwynne P Aug p7
• True tritium tales Crease R Aug p18
• Putting physics in the media spotlight Cooper P Aug p44
• The tragedy of William Sweet Crease R Sep p18
• Jobs in publishing and the media Durrani M Oct p44
• PhysicsWeb gets new look Nov p13
• The secrets of success Dec p7
• Too confident about uncertainty Crease R Dec p18

Quantum physics

• Quantum loophole shut Mar p3
• Getting all entangled up Sudbery T May p24
• Quantum carpets, carpets of light Berry M, Marzoli I and Schleich W Jun p39
• Chaos gives quantum tunnelling a hand Ullmo D, Mouchet A Sep p24
• Quantum cloning Buzek V, Hillery M Nov p25

Semiconductors and electronics

• GaAs meets its match Oct p6

Space science and the solar system

• Rocks point to the existence of seas on the red planet Jan p3
• Welcome to 2001 Jan p15
• Extrasolar planets Jan p25
• How to build your own rocket Turner R Jan p45
• Mysterious Mercury maintains its allure Feb p10
• Mission to Pluto gets another chance Feb p10
• Solar magnetism attracts an answer Lockwood M, Mackay D Mar p21
• Moon joins climate watch May p3
• Time to make an impact May p8
• Take me to the stars Cartlidge E May p10
• Is there a future for scientists in space? Cartlidge E May p11
• Asteroids: up close and personal Chapman C Jun p33
• Mars ahoy! Jul p9
• Leicester space centre blasts off Durrani M Jul p10
• Catching a piece of the Sun Jul p11
• New studies on space weather Aug p13

Superconductivity

• Metal superconductor turns up the heat Mar p8
• New metallic superconductor makes an immediate impact Gough C Apr p21
• Organic metal challenges superconductor paradigm Jul p23
• Superconductors enter the iron age Aug p3
• Magnetic vortices defy melting moment Kwok W Aug p26
• Pumped up buckyballs Oct p3
• US invests in superconductivity Nov p12

Sweden

• Boost for Swedish science Nov p12

Switzerland

• Swiss synchrotron starts up Nov p12

UK

• Wanted: teachers young or old Gould P Jan p5
• PPARC is rewarded for thinking big Cartlidge E Jan p10
• Budget boost for physics Jan p11
• Telling it like it is Cartlidge E Jan p12
• Uk plans Daresbury rescue deal Durrani M Feb p5
• Belfast receives big boost Feb p8
• Physics goes to extremes Feb p9
• Scientific wealth in nations Feb p13
• Panel probes material science Feb p30
• CCLRC boss turns to youth for advice Mar p6
• A position fit for a king Mar p11
• New charter for UK science Mar p12
• Getting set for the election Mar p13
• Physicists face test of research quality Apr p6
• Daresbury awaits £150m Apr p7
• Jodrell Bank under threat Apr p7
• Mixed reception for the new PhD grants May p6
• London college loses astrophysics group May p7
• Reflecting on the performance and challenges of UK physics Sainsbury L May p15
• Parties spell out their science promises Jun p9
• Vote for teachers Jun p15
• UK must invest in quantum technology Aug p8
• ...and UK selects EPSRC chief Aug p13
• DIAMOND wins attention from industry Aug p15
• Gender gap revealed at A-level Sep p13
• UK tackles student shortage Cartlidge E Oct p5
• British firms lag world in R&D Oct p12
• A degree for change Oct p15
• Leicester imports student hotshots Nov p6

US

• Just what will Bush mean for science? Jan p6
• Low morale strikes Los Alamos Jan p13
• US asks cosmic question Feb p6
• New era for science policy Feb p6
• NASA shortlists three missions Feb p12
• US researchers plot high-energy future Gwynne P Mar p9
• Budget blueprint shocks US physicists Apr p8
• Working in a gold mine Apr p13
• NASA comes clean on SI units Apr p13
• Budget figures confirm physicists' fears May p8
• Grand challenges for the US May p13
• Scientists sceptical about missile plans Jun p10
• Plans to resurrect US nuclear power Jun p10
• Senate switch thwarts Bush's strategies Jul p12
• Bush picks science advisor Aug p8
• Missile defence gathers pace Aug p13
• Defence questions for physicists Gronlund L Aug p16
• No to US astronomy shake up Oct p12
• NASA chief Goldin resigns Nov p12
• Space station to test the new NASA boss Dec p12
• Physicists weigh up new budget reality Dec p12
• US panel backs linear collider Dec p13

Women in physics

• The industrial physicist who has it all Jamieson V May p9
• PhDs are worth more for women Gehring G Sep p16