Print edition - index 2005

Acoustics

• Can sound travel at the speed of light? Dec p5
• Innovation: Sound comes into touch Dec p5
• Gorishnyy T, Maldovan M, Ullal C and Thomas E Dec p24

American Physical Society

• APS seeks name change Aug p7

Applications

• US airports look to terahertz screening Jan p6
• Fibre lasers set to light up the market Cartlidge E Apr p9
• Wave energy comes of age Heath T May p31
• Does your wine pass the nuclear test? Jun p5
• Quantum cryptography tackles video Jun p6
• Particle physicists join battle against cancer Cartlidge E Jun p10
• Upward trend for flat displays Geisow A Jun p37
• Propane powers fuel cells Jul p7
• A revolution in lighting Jul p13
• The solid-state lighting revolution Narendran N Jul p25
• Monk D Jul p37
• Data at your fingertips Aug p3
• Criminals face the forces of physics Gould P Aug p10
• Innovation: Antennas focus on plasma technology Sep p5
• Paper fingerprints could combat fraud Sep p8
• Nanomagnets come together Oct p5
• Doing work while you walk Oct p5
• Cylinders provide new focus for water waves Nov p4
• Terahertz security imaging prepares for take off Nov p5
• Can physics accelerate biology? Gould P Nov p10
• Nellist P Nov p24
• Investors eye up urine-powered battery Dec p7
• Europe positions itself in orbit Dec p10
• High-flux solar simulator lights up Dec p14

Art and science

• Physics meets art Mar p9
• May p13
• Baldwin M, Rivers R May p16
• Warm words for Einstein dance Jul p10
• An opera for Oppenheimer Aug p6
• Physics gives art the edge Nov p5
• Picturing the reality of quarks Nov p8
• Oppenheimer on stage Holloway D Nov p41
• Einstein set to music Dubiel S Dec p20
• Bormanis A Dec p40

Astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology

• Doubts cast over map of cosmos Jan p5
• The 1919 eclipse: a celebrity is born Stanley M Jan p25
• The search for gravitational waves Hough J, Rowan S Jan p37
• A very special centenary Bluhm R Jan p43
• Big Bang origin seen in galaxies Feb p5
• John Barrow: Answering the big questions Rodgers P Feb p12
• Chemical controversy at the solar surface Bahcall J Feb p26
• Astronomers find missing baryons Mar p3
• Nuclear data upset stellar model Austin S Mar p21
• Gravitational labs in the sky Lyne A, Kramer M Mar p29
• Have we seen the first 'dark galaxy'? Apr p3
• Dark-energy probe opens for business Apr p11
• Gamma-ray bursts in a new light Crease R P Apr p17
• Cosmic conundrum Gaisser T K Apr p29
• Extrasolar planet comes into view May p3
• Araujo H May p20
• Exoplanet imaging heats up Cameron A C May p22
• Swift view of gamma-ray burst Jun p3
• Stars may expose quantum vacuum Jun p6
• Wark D Jun p29
• For astronomers, size matters Jul p5
• Critics question reality of the Big Bang Jul p6
• Computing the course of cosmic evolution Jul p6
• Ripples seen in neutrino background Jul p9
• Milky way may hold thousands of black holes Aug p6
• Infrared telescope takes to the skies Aug p7
• Sep p15
• Luminet J-P Sep p22
• Explorer of stars and souls: Arthur Stanley Eddington Stanley M Sep p33
• Web search sparks planetary dispute Gwynne P Oct p7
• First light for African telescope Cartlidge E Oct p7
• Astronomers get virtual observatory Oct p9
• Doing astronomy in Namibia Jeandron M Oct p13
• Seeing red over white dwarfs Rowan-Robinson M Oct p44
• Physicists braced for gravity Cartlidge E Nov p9
• Cosmic-ray observatory to open Nov p9
• Time: a leap into the dark? Swarup B Nov p14
• Rodgers P Nov p17
• Looking back at the first stars Dec p5

Atomic and molecular physics

• Strange ways of light and atoms Clark C W Jan p44
• The power of entanglement Weinfurter H Jan p47
• Eades J Mar p24
• Superfluidity in Fermi gases Chevy F, Salomon C Mar p43
• Rodgers P Jun p8
• Antiprotonic helium Eades J Oct p29

Awards and prizes

• Quantum cryptography research scoops Descartes prize Jan p5
• Wolf prize goes to atomic physicist Feb p9
• Laser pioneer scoops religion prize Apr p7
• Dirac medal for condensed matter Sep p54
• Institute of Physics awards 2006 Oct p48
• Z-pinch pioneers honoured Oct p48
• Nobel spotlight falls on optics Cartlidge E Nov p6
• Peace prize for atomic watchdog Nov p8
• Eight drops and counting... Nov p8

Biophysics

• New boosts for US neutron therapy Jan p11
• The basic challenge of biology Grigorieff N, Nogales E Feb p44
• Proton therapy arrives in Europe May p7
• Particle physicists join battle against cancer Cartlidge E Jun p10
• Proton therapy in Europe Kacperek A; Kooy H, Sisterson J, Bortfeld T, DeLaney T, Suit H, Loeffler J Jul p16
• Shedding light on life Neuman K, Dholakia K Oct p35
• Heavy ions found to damage DNA Nov p9
• Can physics accelerate biology? Gould P Nov p10
• European limits put MRI at risk Gould P Nov p11

Books reviewed

• Pippard B Feb p41
• Pondering the power of the impossible Anderson P Feb p42
• Feb p43
• Riordan M Mar p49
• Engineering at the forefront of society Williams P Mar p50
• Mar p51
• Coccia E Apr p47
• Superconductors: the mystery goes on Keimer B Apr p48
• Apr p49
• Waugh R May p40
• May p41
• The colourful story of the strong force Fritzsch H May p42
• Blair D Jun p41
• Einstein and Freud: novel thoughts Muldoon C Jun p42
• Jun p43
• Ellis J Jul p41
• A forceful character in particle physics Perkins D Jul p42
• Jul p43
• New twists on Germany's bomb Lustig H Aug p41
• Aug p42
• Hughes J Aug p43
• Skea J Sep p47
• The life of astronomy's brightest star Burbidge G Sep p48
• Sep p49
• Collier Cameron A Oct p42
• Seeing red over white dwarfs Rowan-Robinson M Oct p44
• Oct p45
• Friedlander M Nov p40
• Judging the stars of Stalin's science Gorelik G Nov p42
• Nov p43
• Bormanis A Dec p40
• The best of Einstein Durrani M Dec p41
• Why Godel was a hero to Einstein Ferreira P Dec p44
• Rodgers P Dec p45
• The fellows who let science flourish Enderby J Dec p46
• Keeping it in the family Margaritondo G Dec p47

Canada

• Mixed fortunes for Canada Apr p7
• Tiny department tops research rankings Gwynne P Oct p10

Careers and employment

• How to be a patent attorney Mounteney S Jan p58
• Once a physicist: Wolfgang Heckl Jan p60
• Teaching options must be broader Taber K Feb p20
• Postdoc security McKee D Feb p20
• The basic challenge of biology Grigorieff N, Nogales E Feb p44
• Once a physicist: Naglaa Walker Feb p46
• Get to the core of nuclear power Johnston L Mar p52
• Once a physicist: Javier Solano Mar p53
• Fit to teach maths Marquis S Apr p20
• Optics keeps your options open Weir K, Williamson A Apr p50
• Once a physicist: Mike Baillie Apr p51
• Engineer fights prejudice May p6
• How to get a taste for teaching Lacey C, Giles J, Allerston C May p44
• Once a physicist: John McCracken May p46
• Frustrations of having to teach beyond physics Hare H, Wilks T Jun p20
• A degree of choice at Siemens Becker F Jun p45
• Once a physicist: Martin Read Jun p46
• Visas brew trouble for US science Lerch I Jul p44
• Once a physicist: Michael Duffy Jul p46
• Gravitating towards industry Durrani M Aug p45
• Once a physicist: Cynthia Dion-Schwarz Aug p46
• Steve Koonin: A physicist's view of energy supply Cartlidge E Sep p12
• How to get up close to nanotech Durrani M Sep p52
• Once a physicist: Alok Jha Sep p54
• The price of physics Sep p54
• European dreams turn real Sep p54
• The rewards of green energy Jeandron M Oct p46
• Once a physicist:Helen Willetts Oct p47
• A job with a sparkle Lawson S Nov p46
• Once a physicist: Sir Brian Bender Nov p48
• How to become a creative scientist Byron K Dec p54
• Once a physicist: Brian Mawhinney Dec p56

CERN

• Collider back on track after tragedy Dec p8

Chaos, complexity and nonlinearity

• Scientists eye complexity Mar p5
• Chaos comes under control Escande D May p24
• Robert Laughlin: Welcome to the age of emergence Durrani M Jul p11
• Ellis J Jul p41
• Physics gives art the edge Nov p5
• Doing physics off the beaten track Helbing D Nov p12

Climate change and the environment

• Winters start to warm up Mar p3
• Ice mission awaits lift-off Mar p6

Computation and software

• Computing the course of cosmic evolution Jul p6
• Writing software is far from trivial Rutt I Aug p22
• Getting software right Esward T Sep p20

Condensed matter

• Physicists solves desert mystery Jan p3
• Boiling water inside a computer Jan p3
• Magnetic effects seen in water Jan p6
• Haw M Jan p19
• Why stalactites are all the same Feb p3
• Liquid crystals enter pentagonal phase Feb p3
• How ice 'melts' below its melting point Klug D D Feb p25
• Electrons navigate disordered media Heine V Feb p27
• Krim J Feb p31
• Alcohol makes a splash Mar p3
• Electronics goes mechanical Burke P Mar p22
• Superfluidity in Fermi gases Chevy F, Salomon C Mar p43
• Single electrons seen in current Apr p8
• Microscope targets crystallization May p3
• Making strings in the lab Jun p3
• Rodgers P Jun p8
• Counting electrons one by one Devoret M Jun p24
• Nickel reveals a new magnetic face Heinrich B Jun p26
• Imaging electron waves Smith C Jun p27
• Molecular oxygen under pressure to transform Jul p3
• Electron spins feel the squeeze Jul p3
• Robert Laughlin: Welcome to the age of emergence Durrani M Jul p11
• Neutrons detect order in glass Binder K Jul p23
• Ellis J Jul p41
• Watching solids melt Aug p3
• Simulations reveal metallic superfluid Nov p4
• Sounding out the Hall effect Nov p5
• Nellist P Nov p24
• A Hall of spin Sih V, Kato Y, Awschalom D Nov p33
• A job with a sparkle Lawson S Nov p46
• Electrons lose their mass Dec p4
• Foam result surprises scientists Dec p4
• Gorishnyy T, Maldovan M, Ullal C and Thomas E Dec p24
• Sand, jams and jets Jaeger H Dec p34

Education

• Over their heads Flook V May p18
• How to get a taste for teaching Lacey C, Giles J, Allerston C May p44
• Crease R P Jul p15
• Maths frustrations Percy N Jul p17
• The challenges for Africa Cartlidge E Oct p12
• Superheroes test laws of physics Gwynne P Nov p8
• Glynn I Nov p18
• Making students think Sands D Nov p21

Energy

• Cold fusion gets luke-warm backing Jan p8
• Wanted: physicists to work on green energy Cartlidge E Feb p8
• Nuclear power's expensive legacy Cartlidge E Mar p10
• On the trail of deep-sea gas sources May p10
• Wave energy comes of age Heath T May p31
• Carbon rationing Pye D Jun p21
• Propane powers fuel cells Jul p7
• Monk D Jul p37
• Energy: Something for everyone in the US Sep p9
• Steve Koonin: A physicist's view of energy supply Cartlidge E Sep p12
• Hydrogen results cause controversy Sep p13
• The rewards of green energy Jeandron M Oct p46
• Against hydrinos Connett J E, Zimmerman P D Nov p21

Europe

• Engineer fights prejudice May p6
• European dream nears reality Aug p7
• Europe plans laser-fusion facility Sep p7

European Space Agency

• ESA hails Titanic success Feb p6
• Europe launches express mission to planet hell Moore J Oct p11
• Icy grave for polar mission Moore J Nov p8
• Rodgers P Nov p17
• Europe positions itself in orbit Dec p10

European Union

• Quantum cryptography research scoops Descartes prize Jan p5
• Europe plans to double research May p5
• Jul p13
• European dream nears reality Aug p7
• European dreams turn real Sep p54

Facilities

• Neutrino factory takes key step Apr p5
• Synchrotrons scale down Apr p5
• Europe plans laser-fusion facility Sep p7
• German lab focuses on free-electron lasers Sep p8
• X-ray lab clears first hurdle Oct p10
• Free-electron lasers shine on Galayda J Nov p38

Fluid dynamics

• Bubble fusion in the spotlight Apr p26

France

• France funds exotic nuclei Jul p7

Fusion

• Cold fusion gets luke-warm backing Jan p8
• ITER negotiations still in deadlock Apr p8
• Fusion seen on table top May p5
• ITER looks bound for France Jun p5
• Europe wins fusion prize Jul p5
• ITER scientists chart way ahead Durrani M Aug p5
• Giant lasers target weapons stockpile Cartlidge E Aug p8
• Europe plans laser-fusion facility Sep p7
• Skea J Sep p47
• Diplomat to head ITER project Dec p14

Geophysics

• Calls grow for global tsunami detectors Gould P Feb p7
• Neutrinos open window on Earth's core Sep p5

Germany

• Scientists eye complexity Mar p5
• German lab focuses on free-electron lasers Sep p8
• Physicist to lead Germany Durrani M Nov p7

Gravity and general relativity

• The 1919 eclipse: a celebrity is born Stanley M Jan p25
• Will C M Jan p27
• The search for gravitational waves Hough J, Rowan S Jan p37
• Gravitational labs in the sky Lyne A, Kramer M Mar p29
• Gravity in the balance Apr p15
• Adelberger E, Heckel B, Hoyle C D Apr p41
• Test proposed for extra dimensions May p10
• Blair D Jun p41
• Whitehead theory Coleman J Jul p16
• The gravity of hadrons Evans N Aug p26
• Gravitating towards industry Durrani M Aug p45
• Luminet J-P Sep p22
• The greatest equation Goldsack S J; Petrushev B; Atkin K Oct p20
• Mass, energy and the meaning of relativity Okun L; Derham D Oct p20
• Physicists braced for gravity Cartlidge E Nov p9
• General relativity Crease R P Dec p16
• ’t Hooft G, Witten E, Dowker F and Davies P Dec p21

History of physics

• Jan p13
• A brief history of Albert Einstein Durrani M Jan p14
• Chalmers M Jan p16
• The 1919 eclipse: a celebrity is born Stanley M Jan p25
• Durrani M Jan p45
• The other side of Albert Einstein Chapman T Jan p52
• Ellis J Jan p56
• Oxford rescues Marconi archives Feb p10
• Emilio Segrè: nuclear pioneer Steiner H Feb p35
• Pippard B Feb p41
• Einstein and physics in the 21st century Francis-Jones A, Taylor J, Smith F Mar p18
• Rigden J S Apr p18
• Max Born and the peace movement Thorndike Greenspan N Apr p35
• Coccia E Apr p47
• The deep religion of Isaac Newton Cartlidge E May p8
• Born, again Jones C May p18
• Karlsch R, Walker M Jun p15
• Paper resurfaces from lost physicist Aug p9
• Freudian slip? Chodos A Aug p22
• Wilkins D R Aug p33
• Hughes J Aug p43
• Explorer of stars and souls: Arthur Stanley Eddington Stanley M Sep p33
• Seeing red over white dwarfs Rowan-Robinson M Oct p44
• Friedlander M Nov p40
• Judging the stars of Stalin's science Gorelik G Nov p42
• General relativity Crease R P Dec p16
• Why Godel was a hero to Einstein Ferreira P Dec p44
• Keeping it in the family Margaritondo G Dec p47

Industry and innovation

• Playing seriously with strategy Grey F, Roos J Feb p18
• Engineering at the forefront of society Williams P Mar p50
• Synchrotrons scale down Apr p5
• Memory gets flexible Apr p8
• Wires approach a new era Jun p12
• Upward trend for flat displays Geisow A Jun p37
• Monk D Jul p37
• New 'Son of Concorde' promised Aug p7
• First for LCDs Geisow A Aug p22
• The pull of industry Main R P Sep p20
• The road to miniaturization Wong H, Iwai H Sep p40
• Innovation for all nations Lerch I A Oct p16

Institute of Physics

• Feb p15
• Institute of Physics appoints new boss Mar p7
• Institute of Physics awards 2006 Oct p48
• Change at Physics World Dec p14
• New fellows at the Institute of Physics Dec p56

International

• Oxbridge tops scientific table Jan p6
• Calls grow for global tsunami detectors Gould P Feb p7
• Europe wins fusion prize Jul p5
• Einstein, Egypt and former glories Witten E Jul p17
• Visas brew trouble for US science Lerch I Jul p44
• ITER scientists chart way ahead Durrani M Aug p5
• Wolfsthal J Aug p18
• Chernobyl led to just 50 deaths Durrani M Oct p9
• The challenges for Africa Cartlidge E Oct p12
• Rodgers P Oct p15
• Innovation for all nations Lerch I A Oct p16
• Sreenivasan K Oct p38
• Time: a leap into the dark? Swarup B Nov p14
• Physicists lay plan for developing world Dec p11

Internet

• Google adds scholarly search engine Jan p6

Ireland

• Astronomers oppose move to Dublin Jan p6
• Nanolab wins private cash Apr p8
• Once a physicist: Michael Duffy Jul p46
• Wilkins D R Aug p33

Italy

• Working in the shadow of Galileo Cartlidge E Oct p10

Lasers and optics

• Strange ways of light and atoms Clark C W Jan p44
• Intel builds silicon laser Feb p6
• Blue LED inventor ends legal battle Feb p11
• New look for classic experiment Mar p5
• Mechanical structures feel the chill Lavrik N, Datskos P Mar p25
• Total reflection doubles up Apr p3
• Photonic crystal plays new tricks with light Apr p3
• Fibre lasers set to light up the market Cartlidge E Apr p9
• Apr p15
• Silicon chips light up Pavesi L Apr p25
• Young's slits revisited Sambles R Apr p27
• Optics keeps your options open Weir K, Williamson A Apr p50
• Superlens breakthrough May p6
• Gill P, Margolis H May p35
• Upward trend for flat displays Geisow A Jun p37
• A revolution in lighting Jul p13
• The solid-state lighting revolution Narendran N Jul p25
• Data at your fingertips Aug p3
• Giant lasers target weapons stockpile Cartlidge E Aug p8
• First for LCDs Geisow A Aug p22
• Smith D Aug p23
• Europe plans laser-fusion facility Sep p7
• Paper fingerprints could combat fraud Sep p8
• First for LEDs Allen J Sep p20
• Terahertz security imaging prepares for take off Nov p5
• Nobel spotlight falls on optics Cartlidge E Nov p6
• Particle accelerators light up Katsouleas T, Muggli P Nov p30
• Innovation: Water sees the light Dec p5
• Slow light brings faster communications Gauthier D Dec p30

Lateral thoughts

• An evening with the Einsteins Prichard R Jan p72
• Speaking with tongues Pykett C Feb p56
• Alternative views of energy Klimek M Mar p68
• Story of a textbook Duffin B Apr p60
• Let the inner Einstein out Czerski H May p56
• The problem with numbers Taylor I Jun p60
• A radical approach to Kyoto Calverd A Jul p56
• Why words matter Ralph B Aug p52
• The greatest equation in physics Singh S Sep p64
• Black holes and the German Reichstag Hanauske M Oct p64
• Reflections of a grumpy old physicist Atkin K Nov p56

Low-temperature physics

• Tiny refrigerator hits the big time Jun p3
• Fermi gas goes superfluid Jul p3

Mathematical and statistical physics

• Paper resurfaces from lost physicist Aug p9
• The gravity of hadrons Evans N Aug p26
• Anomalous diffusion spreads its wings Klafter J , Sokolov I M Aug p29

Medical physics

• Heavy ions found to damage DNA Nov p9

Metrology

• Gill P, Margolis H May p35
• Metrology at the nano scale Sheridan B, Cumpson P, Bailey M Aug p37
• Nobel spotlight falls on optics Cartlidge E Nov p6
• Time: a leap into the dark? Swarup B Nov p14

Microscopy

• Microscopic 'pen' rewrites the rules Jan p3
• The ups and downs of doping superconductors Sep p4
• Nellist P Nov p24

Miscellaneous

• Einstein and his love of music Foster B Jan p34
• A physicist whose mind thawed Crease R P Mar p15
• Learning physics in a taxicab Robbins J Mar p18
• Einstein and God Grujic P Apr p21
• Ohm still standing Constable A May p18
• The appeal of Rube Goldberg Crease R P Jun p19
• Boffin search Blundell B Jun p20
• Data and datoids Castell S Jun p21
• Blooming Einstein Danson R Aug p22
• Sep p15
• Batten A H Sep p16
• Cows and climate Bowler N Sep p20
• Physics identifies musical tastes Oct p4
• Words and meaning Syson T; Whitworth R Oct p21
• Quiz of the year 2005 Dec p64

Nanotechnology

• Metrology at the nano scale Sheridan B, Cumpson P, Bailey M Aug p37
• How to get up close to nanotech Durrani M Sep p52
• Nanomagnets come together Oct p5
• A giant leap for nanodroplets Oct p10
• Nanotechnology bridges the commercial divide Cartlidge E Nov p13
• US museums to promote nanotechnology Gwynne P Nov p13
• Buckyball pioneer dies Dec p8

Netherlands

• Netherlands opens up nanophotonics May p10

Nuclear physics

• How nuclear data upset stellar-evolution models Feb p3
• Nuclear data upset stellar model Austin S Mar p21
• Nickel nuclei strike gold May p3
• Quark-gluon plasma turns liquid May p6
• Son D Jun p23
• France funds exotic nuclei Jul p7

Nuclear power

• Get to the core of nuclear power Johnston L Mar p52
• Terrorists could target spent-fuel pools May p6
• Manchester to host nuclear institute Aug p7
• US to restart plutonium production Aug p9
• Skea J Sep p47
• Chernobyl led to just 50 deaths Durrani M Oct p9
• Nuclear company set to be sold Nov p9

Nuclear weapons

• Germany 'developed atom bomb',claims new book Apr p7
• Karlsch R, Walker M Jun p15
• An opera for Oppenheimer Aug p6
• Commemorating 60 years of the bomb Aug p6
• Giant lasers target weapons stockpile Cartlidge E Aug p8
• Aug p13
• Judging the bomb builders Crease R P Aug p15
• Levi M Aug p17
• Wolfsthal J Aug p18
• Long live Trident? Chalmers M Aug p20
• Fissile point Butcher A Aug p22
• New twists on Germany's bomb Lustig H Aug p41
• New cash for UK weapons centre Sep p9
• Sir Joseph Rotblat 1908-2005 Finney J Oct p8
• A life without bombs Steinberger J Oct p21
• Oppenheimer on stage Holloway D Nov p41
• No longer a last resort? Hirsch J Dec p19

Obituaries

• John Ziman 1925-2005 Mar p7
• Allan Bromley 1926-2005 Mar p9
• Hans Bethe 1906-2005 Bernstein J Apr p12
• Philip Morrison 1915-2005: Anti-bomb campaigner dies Jun p7
• Jack Kilby 1923-2005: Inventor of the microchip dies Jul p10
• John Bahcall 1934-2005: Solar-neutrino pioneer dies Sep p9
• Sir Joseph Rotblat 1908-2005 Finney J Oct p8
• Hermann Bondi 1919-2005: Final steady-state pioneer dies Durrani M Oct p9
• John Bahcall 1934-2005 Pinsonneault M Oct p14
• Buckyball pioneer dies Dec p8

Optics

• Apr p15
• Upward trend for flat displays Geisow A Jun p37
• First for LCDs Geisow A Aug p22

Particle physics

• Antarctic ice set to probe the universe Jan p7
• Neutrino detectors in space Jan p7
• A very special centenary Bluhm R Jan p43
• Close F Feb p23
• Emilio Segrè: nuclear pioneer Steiner H Feb p35
• Eades J Mar p24
• Neutrino factory takes key step Apr p5
• Fermilab unveils neutrino experiment Apr p8
• Adelberger E, Heckel B, Hoyle C D Apr p41
• Evidence for the pentaquark fades May p7
• B-factory back online after shutdown May p9
• Linear collider gets design chief May p10
• Lisa Randall: A life with extra dimensions Durrani M May p11
• Araujo H May p20
• The colourful story of the strong force Fritzsch H May p42
• Making strings in the lab Jun p3
• Son D Jun p23
• Wark D Jun p29
• Russ J Jul p19
• Quarks and gluons get real Gottlieb S Jul p22
• A forceful character in particle physics Perkins D Jul p42
• Bottoms down for quarks Aug p3
• The gravity of hadrons Evans N Aug p26
• Laser rotation sheds light on axions Sep p4
• Neutrinos open window on Earth's core Sep p5
• Au revoir RSVP Sep p9
• Strange events in the proton Kumar K Sep p29
• Charlton M, Hangst J Oct p22
• Duff M Dec p42

Philosophy of science

• General relativity Crease R P Dec p16

Physics and finance

• Quantum physics meets classical finance Darbyshire P May p25
• Waugh R May p40

Physics and sport

• In oar out? Howe D May p18
• Staggered strokes Chapman J Jul p17
• A turn on the rudder Anderson R Sep p20

Plasma physics

• Europe wins fusion prize Jul p5
• ITER scientists chart way ahead Durrani M Aug p5
• Hydrogen results cause controversy Sep p13

Publishing

• Google adds scholarly search engine Jan p6
• John Barrow: Answering the big questions Rodgers P Feb p12
• Top 10 journals welcome new entries Feb p13
• Lisa Randall: A life with extra dimensions Durrani M May p11
• Be alert to the latest work Jun p12
• Beauty of LaTeX Penney R Jun p20
• Field effects Basa D Jul p17
• How high is your h-index? Sep p7
• What will they think in 2105? Rodgers P Dec p12

Quantum physics

• The power of entanglement Weinfurter H Jan p47
• Quantum cryptography takes to the air Feb p10
• New look for classic experiment Mar p5
• Arndt M, Hornberger K, Zeilinger A Mar p35
• Superfluidity in Fermi gases Chevy F, Salomon C Mar p43
• Gill P, Margolis H May p35
• Quantum cryptography tackles video Jun p6
• Stars may expose quantum vacuum Jun p6
• Rodgers P Jun p8
• Jun p13
• Fermi gas goes superfluid Jul p3
• Single spin readout in quantum dots Wolf S, Curcic T Jul p21
• Tony Leggett: The quantum philosopher Cartlidge E Aug p12
• Return of the anyon Oct p5
• Charlton M, Hangst J Oct p22
• Antiprotonic helium Eades J Oct p29
• Nobel spotlight falls on optics Cartlidge E Nov p6
• A Hall of spin Sih V, Kato Y, Awschalom D Nov p33
• Electrons lose their mass Dec p4
• ’t Hooft G, Witten E, Dowker F and Davies P Dec p21

Research conduct and ethics

• Crease R P Feb p17
• Crease R P Jul p15

Science and society

• Looking after the image of a legend Gwynne P Jan p35
• Einstein celebrations get off to a flyer Feb p5
• Feb p15
• Michio Kaku: Meet the master of the soundbite Durrani M Mar p8
• Eggen H, Ridley B Mar p16
• Rodgers P Oct p15
• Intelligent Design Crease R P Oct p19
• US museums to promote nanotechnology Gwynne P Nov p13
• Global events pull in the crowds Dec p13

Semiconductors and electronics

• Riordan M Mar p49
• Silicon chips light up Pavesi L Apr p25
• Jack Kilby 1923-2005: Inventor of the microchip dies Jul p10
• Innovation: Antennas focus on plasma technology Sep p5
• The road to miniaturization Wong H, Iwai H Sep p40

Sociology of Science

• Looking after the image of a legend Gwynne P Jan p35
• The king is dead. Long live the king! Crease R P Jan p55
• Blair D Jun p41
• Critics question reality of the Big Bang Jul p6
• Crease R P Sep p19

Space science and the solar system

• ESA hails Titanic success Feb p6
• Telescope finds a home in Hawaii Feb p11
• Chemical controversy at the solar surface Bahcall J Feb p26
• Satellite sets sail for Sun Mar p7
• Mar p13
• Coates A Apr p23
• Space successes for UK universities Culhane J L May p18
• Tempel 1 returns to normal Aug p11
• Kinetic waves point to reconnection Sep p4
• Disputed planet ignites debate Swarup B Sep p10
• Web search sparks planetary dispute Gwynne P Oct p7
• Europe launches express mission to planet hell Moore J Oct p11
• Collier Cameron A Oct p42
• Icy grave for polar mission Moore J Nov p8
• Rodgers P Nov p17

Superconductivity

• Superconductor responds to nano-scale change Van Bael M J, Temst, K Feb p24
• Superconductors: the mystery goes on Keimer B Apr p48
• Wires approach a new era Jun p12
• High-temperature uncertainty Timusk T Jul p31
• Theorists succumb to Tao Tao R Aug p24
• The ups and downs of doping superconductors Sep p4
• Carbon copies are superconductors Oct p4

UK

• Scottish physicists form a superteam . . . Jan p9
• . . . while Newcastle axes pure physics Jan p9
• UK physics back in the spotlight Feb p9
• Partnerships prove profitable Mar p7
• New chief for UK research council Mar p9
• More cash, but little extra science Apr p6
• Michael Duff: Imperial old boy returns in new role Rodgers P Apr p10
• Martin Rees to head Royal Society May p10
• Lean times ahead for new research boss Cartlidge E Jul p8
• Manchester to host nuclear institute Aug p7
• Criminals face the forces of physics Gould P Aug p10
• Long live Trident? Chalmers M Aug p20
• New cash for UK weapons centre Sep p9
• Nuclear company set to be sold Nov p9
• Fire guts leading photonics centre Dec p7
• Martin Rees: Master of the universe Dec p8

US

• NASA seeks new boss. . . Jan p8
• . . . and urged to send shuttle to Hubble Jan p8
• Caltech astronomers given new home Jan p8
• Congress destroys budget goal Jan p8
• Los Alamos looks to uncertain future Gwynne P Jan p10
• Missile defence suffers new setback Feb p9
• Physicists face hard times Mar p6
• Physicist chosen to head NASA Apr p7
• New NASA boss faces discontent May p9
• Los Alamos chief resigns Jun p7
• SLAC switches its attention to X-rays Jul p10
• Visas brew trouble for US science Lerch I Jul p44
• Levi M Aug p17
• Energy: Something for everyone in the US Sep p9
• Mines battle for underground lab Sep p9
• Plans for Moon landings unveiled Oct p9
• Scientists respond to storm damage Oct p9
• X-ray lab clears first hurdle Oct p10
• American students flock to physics Oct p10
• Budget cuts hit nuclear and space science Dec p14
• Nobel laureate sent to prison Dec p14

Women in physics

• 'Leaky pipeline' only exists after school Apr p6