Print edition - index 2006

Acoustics

• Staying in tune with physics Howard D Apr p29
• Sing to the tune of sand Aug p5
• Watching sound waves scatter Sep p5
• The sound of silence Leventhall G Oct p18
• The troubled song of the sand dunes Chalmers M Nov p25

Applications

• The might of military research Parkinson S Jan p34
• Ink-jet technology comes alive Feb p4
• Linking thermodynamics with life Segre G Feb p40
• Tabletop accelerators move closer Gould P Mar p9
• X-rays scaled down Apr p5
• Holograms fly high May p5
• Biofocals at the flick of a switch May p5
• Mobilizing magnetic resonance Goodson B May p28
• Sensing the extreme Horsfall A, Wright N May p34
• Photonic crystals boost engine efficiency Jul p5
• Power without wires Dec p7
• Sunny future for clean water Palmer D J Dec p11

Art and science

• Art-science stitch up Jun p3
• A case of mistaken identity Miller A I Jul p35
• Physics play scoops $10,000 prize Aug p9
• A human as a quantum object Sep p7
• Science as drama Crease R P Sep p16
• Lost movie gem Sep p19
• Learning lessons from Galileo Nikbin D Oct p47

Astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology

• Perseus arm is closer than we think Jan p4
• Exploding dark-matter balls Jan p5
• Industry signs up for new telescope Jan p9
• Little joy for Japanese asteroid mission Moore J Jan p11
• NASA sets its sights on Pluto Gwynne P Jan p11
• Cause of cosmic magnetism is revealed Feb p4
• Italy sets its sights on the Moon Moore J Feb p6
• Tuning in to Titan Lebreton J Feb p20
• Quantum gravity for real Mar p4
• Solar eclipse for Africa and Asia Mar p10
• Alternative to the multiverse Mar p18
• The threat from above Cartlidge E Mar p27
• The oldest explosion in the universe Apr p4
• Retrieving data from a black hole Apr p4
• Saturn's moon erupts Apr p5
• New direction for cosmic radiation Chalmers M Apr p7
• An astronomical blast from the past Swarup B Apr p8
• WMAP data put cosmic inflation to the test Hinshaw G May p16
• Cosmology gets precise Gilmore G May p40
• Muslim astronauts pray for help Jun p3
• New angle on planet tilts Jun p4
• Cosmological recycling Jun p4
• Physicists eye dark-energy mysteries Swarup B Jun p6
• Giant telescope moves closer to reality Durrani M Jun p6
• Spanish astronomers look to recapture past glories Swarup B Jul p9
• From the present to the past Aug p4
• NASA tackles dark-energy challenge Swarup B Sep p9
• COBE teams win astronomy prize Sep p9
• Almost certain escape from a black hole Lloyd S Sep p20
• Gravity lens hints at dark matter Oct p4
• Astrophysics targets homeland security Oct p5
• Australia or South Africa to host SKA Oct p8
• Searching for other Earths Swarup B Oct p10
• Astronomer royal Cartlidge E Oct p12
• Ancient radiation earns Nobel acclaim Cartlidge E Nov p6
• Two sites shortlisted for mega telescope Swarup B Nov p7
• Cosmology comes of age Nov p13
• Cleaning up dark matter Bignami G, Dupays A Nov p20
• Seeking anthropic answers Jaffe A Nov p40
• Moon's surface is alive and gassing Dec p5
• US astronomers face swingeing cuts Gwynne P Dec p7
• Hubble to get a new lease of life Cartlidge E Dec p9
• Active galactic nuclei Fabianis A Dec p28

Atomic and molecular physics

• Ions break the record for entanglement Jenkins A Jan p31
• A quantum Newton's cradle May p4
• Quantum gases trapped in 3D Jun p4
• Atomic clocks feel the heat Sep p4
• Atom optics moves into space Sep p7
• Six goals for atomic science Sep p9
• Ludwig Boltzmann: atomic genius Cercignani C Sep p34

Awards and prizes

• Exotic-material and pulsar research bag share of prize Cartlidge E Jan p12
• Ancient radiation earns Nobel acclaim Cartlidge E Nov p6

Biophysics

• Ink-jet technology comes alive Feb p4
• Imager reveals infant brain damage Gould P Feb p6
• Physics firm targets new drugs Cartlidge E Feb p10
• Linking thermodynamics with life Segre G Feb p40
• Physics tackles tumours Mar p5
• Scientists solve mystery of the inner ear Apr p5
• Biologists look for a physical connection St Pourcain C Jun p42
• A physicist in a foreign land Lewalle A Aug p52

Books reviewed

• The might of military research Parkinson S Jan p34
• The story of Feynman diagrams Cao T Y Jan p36
• The visionary who sparkled Fraser G Feb p38
• Linking thermodynamics with life Segre G Feb p40
• The quest for brightness Stenholm S Mar p38
• Magnets through the ages Livingston J D Mar p40
• Cosmology gets precise Gilmore G May p40
• Plotting the life of Descartes Sullivan R May p42
• Tragedy and the transistor Schuller I K Jul p36
• String theory gets knotted Fraser G Aug p37
• Ready for lift off Aug p38
• 100 years of astrophysics Aug p38
• Shelf Life: Frank Close Aug p38
• Seeing the whole picture Caulfield H J Aug p39
• New and newer Clark C Sep p39
• Beat the thesis blues Sep p40
• Life in the cosmos Sep p40
• Shelf life: Peter Woit Sep p40
• Selling statistics Bridle S Sep p41
• A lack of evidence Stenger V J Oct p45
• Science or psychobabble? Oct p46
• Europe's space age Oct p46
• Making the best of it Oct p46
• Shelf life:Peter Coles Oct p46
• The primacy of doubt Palmer T Nov p38
• Seeking anthropic answers Jaffe A Nov p40
• Shelf life: Jennifer Ouellette Nov p41
• Simply the best Griffiths M Dec p38
• A novel approach to Godel and Turing Turney J Dec p40
• The physics of everything Ehrlich R Dec p41

Canada

• New government sends positive signals Gwynne P Mar p8

Careers and employment

• Making your way into the media Mellor F Jan p38
• Space: the choice is endless Metzger P Feb p42
• Once a physicist:Kevin Gell Feb p44
• Making it big in Japan Markham D Mar p42
• The nuclear alternative Norman P Apr p42
• Biologists look for a physical connection St Pourcain C Jun p42
• Once a physicist: Michael Foale Jun p44
• When retirement looms Hellemans A Jul p11
• Critical Point: The retirement problem Crease R P Jul p14
• Physics at the scene of the crime Geradts Z Jul p39
• Once a physicist: Billy Pizer Jul p41
• Made to measure Chung J Aug p40
• Game on for physicists Stevenson K Sep p42
• Once a physicist: Phil Kaziewicz Sep p44
• Spotlight on graduates Oct p48
• Once a physicist: Catherine Totty Oct p50
• The doctorate in transition McInerney J Nov p14
• Playing the science game Nov p39
• Taking the commercial route van Haaren J Nov p42
• Careers and people Nov p43
• Once a physicist: Julian Voss-Andreae Nov p44
• A meeting of science and politics Tannenbaum B Dec p48
• Once a physicist: Goery Delacote Dec p49

CERN

• Champagne moments Oct p15
• How the US sees the LHC Lockyer N Oct p16
• Tackling LHC anxieties Crease R P Oct p17
• Life at the high-energy frontier Chalmers M Oct p20
• Expedition to inner space Parker A Oct p26
• Gearing up for the grid Griffiths M Oct p33
• Beautiful asymmetry Forty R Oct p37
• A machine called ALICE Schukraft J, Schutz Y, Wiedemann U Oct p40
• Beyond the Higgs Cartlidge E Oct p42

Climate change and the environment

• New satellite network to monitor rainfall Swarup B May p12
• NASA heads to the clouds Moore J May p12
• Antarctica calling Durrani M May p13
• Antarctica unravelled Shepherd A May p21
• Hurricane force Smith R Jun p32
• Satellite project meets heavy weather Gwynne P Jul p8
• Burying climate change for good Furnival S Sep p24
• Scientists probe climate's cosmic link Nov p9
• Faulty hurricane forecasts prove costly Johnston H Nov p12
• Carbon concerns Nov p17
• The primacy of doubt Palmer T Nov p38

Computation and software

• Turbulence keeps within the boundaries Jan p5
• Game on for physicists Stevenson K Sep p42
• Gearing up for the grid Griffiths M Oct p33
• Colourful calculations Daviesis C Dec p20

Condensed matter

• Coherent crystal shock Feb p5
• A physicist of many talents Geim A Feb p8
• Photonic crystals shine on Krauss T Feb p32
• Magnets through the ages Livingston J D Mar p40
• Bosons form quantum threesome Apr p4
• How to calculate hardness Apr p4
• Spotting a fake Lawson S Jun p23
• Dry ice forms ultrahard glass Jul p4
• A pressing matter Hemley R J Aug p26
• Watching sound waves scatter Sep p5
• Disappearing act Leonhardt U, Philbin T Sep p30
• Spin Hall effect hots up Oct p4
• Against reductionism Durrani M Nov p10
• Drawing conclusions from graphene Castro Neto A, Guinea F, Peres N M Nov p33
• Supersolid dilemma Dec p4
• Muon users consider going it alone Cartlidge E Dec p13

Education

• More problems with textbooks Feb p16
• The truth about teaching Whalley M Feb p52
• Getting into the swing Raine D Apr p40
• Leading physicist quits research Gwynne P May p8
• Teacher-scientist journal launched May p12
• Education belittled Jun p17
• School physics must be minimalist Huber M Jul p16
• Learning from America Brown J Jul p52
• Schools get telescopes for free Aug p9
• Impedance matching Crease P Aug p16
• Keeping physics alive Aug p18
• Educating the scientist and the citizen Cartlidge E Sep p12
• When less is better Sep p15
• Physics exams - not what they were Piper G Sep p18
• Schools get to grips with cosmic rays Swarup B Oct p8
• Get your demos right Kibble B Oct p18
• The doctorate in transition McInerney J Nov p14
• Getting the physics curriculum right Nov p17

Energy

• A better way to destroy plutonium Grae S, Morozov A and Mushakov A Feb p14
• Physicists target radioactive waste Cartlidge E Mar p7
• Fusion plants could compete in energy market Swarup B Mar p13
• Energy debate goes on May p15
• Pretty appalling Jun p17
• US invests in biofuel research Sep p9
• Physicists mock firm free-energy claims Schirber M Oct

Europe

• Spain opens laboratory beneath the Pyrenees Swarup B Jan p8
• Scientists fight election battle Rich V Mar p8
• Europe's astronomers welcome Spain Mar p10
• Physics for fairer voting Życzkowski K, Słomczyński W, Zastawniak T Mar p35
• Europe targets blue-sky research Durrani M Jul p7
• European dreams Aug p15
• Europe sets out its infrastructure needs Clery D Nov p8

European Space Agency

• Europe sees brighter future in space Cartlidge E Jan p7
• Europe's space age Oct p46

Facilities

• Rapid-repeat accelerator sets record Griffiths M Jun p11
• America re-enters the neutron race Gwynne P Jun p12
• New Synchron source lights up Griffiths M Aug p8
• Physicists target novel light source Cartlidge E Sep p8
• Large Facilities Council gets the go-ahead Griffiths M Sep p8
• Europe sets out its infrastructure needs Clery D Nov p8
• Muon users consider going it alone Cartlidge E Dec p13

Fluid dynamics

• Geometric twist to Newton's bucket Jun p4
• Understanding avalanches Ancey C, Cochard S Jul p29
• Bubbles in space Oct p5

France

• Research council in crisis as leaders exit Hellemans A Feb p7
• French leader seeks reform Hellemans A Aug p12

Fusion

• India joins fusion project Jan p9
• Sonofusion debate heats up Feb p10
• Tough assignment for fusion head Cartlidge E Mar p12
• Industry looks to ITER Durrani M Mar p12
• Fusion plants could compete in energy market Swarup B Mar p13
• The challenges of fusion Mar p15
• Fusion: the way ahead Pitts R, Buttery R, Pinches S Mar p20
• Fresh doubts over bubble fusion Gwynne P and Cartlidge E Apr p7
• Fusion negotiations wrapped up Cartlidge E Jul p10

Geophysics

• Geomagnetic flip may not be random after all May p4
• Antarctica unravelled Shepherd A May p21
• Warning system found wanting Aug p9
• The sound of silence Hedlin M, Romanowicz B Aug p21
• The troubled song of the sand dunes Chalmers M Nov p25

Germany

• Probing the nucleus and beyond Cartlidge E May p10
• Laser could create dark-matter particles Swarup B Aug p8
• Era of the super X-ray laser beckons Haugaard Nielsen R Oct p7

Gravity and general relativity

• Quantum gravity for real Mar p4
• General relativity reveals its secrets May p5
• Physicists eye dark-energy mysteries Swarup B Jun p6
• Gravity's dark side Chalmers M Jun p18
• Almost certain escape from a black hole Lloyd S Sep p20
• Gravity lens hints at dark matter Oct p4

History of physics

• Pythagoras Crease R P Jan p15
• The story of Feynman diagrams Cao T Y Jan p36
• Rutherford and the Trinity golf circus Batchelor M Jan p48
• The visionary who sparkled Fraser G Feb p38
• White knight sought for Hooke notes Mar p10
• F = ma Crease R P Mar p17
• Was Hobbes a crank? Mar p18
• Thomas Young: Physicist, physician and polymath Robinson A Mar p30
• Magnets through the ages Livingston J D Mar p40
• Hooke notes saved at 11th hour May p8
• Plotting the life of Descartes Sullivan R May p42
• Story of a vintage century Ellis J Jun p40
• Scientists hail genius of Nikola Tesla Cartlidge E Jul p10
• Tragedy and the transistor Schuller I K Jul p36
• Fleeting genius Esposito S Aug p34
• Science as drama Crease R P Sep p16
• Ludwig Boltzmann: atomic genius Cercignani C Sep p34
• Newton, Einstein and the monstrous calf Nikbin D Oct p8
• Learning lessons from Galileo Nikbin D Oct p47
• Physics legends Crease R P Nov p16
• The book of nature Crease R P Dec p16
• Almost everything Dec p19
• Forgotten genius Dec p19
• James Clerk Maxwell: a force for physics Everitt F Dec p32
• A novel approach to Godel and Turing Turney J Dec p40

Industry and innovation

• Floating Trains heat up Jan p5
• Industry signs up for new telescope Jan p9
• The might of military research Parkinson S Jan p34
• Turbocharged sensor Feb p5
• Physics firm targets new drugs Cartlidge E Feb p10
• Supercool mobile masts Mar p5
• Industry looks to ITER Durrani M Mar p12
• X-rays scaled down Apr p5
• Holograms fly high May p5
• Alcatel and Lucent set to merge May p8
• The price is bright Jun p4
• Engineering a better physicist White J Jun p14
• Spotting a fake Lawson S Jun p23
• US firm boosts solar-cell production Durrani M Aug p10
• Superconducting wire breaks current record Sep p5
• Burying climate change for good Furnival S Sep p24
• Astrophysics targets homeland security Oct p5
• Cheaper proton therapy moves closer Gwynne P Oct p9
• Physicists mock firm free-energy claims Schirber M Oct
• Smart lenses Jiang H, Dong L Nov p29
• Taking the commercial route van Haaren J Nov p42
• Physics research gets between the sheets Dec p5
• Silent skies Dec p13

International

• Plans for 40 km linear collider unveiled Cartlidge E Jan p9
• Tough assignment for fusion head Cartlidge E Mar p12
• Nobel laureate forced out of top Korean job Durrani M May p8
• US launches science library for Iraq Jun p7
• Warning system found wanting Aug p9
• Green shoots for Russian physics Griffiths M Oct p14
• Two sites shortlisted for mega telescope Swarup B Nov p7
• Top universities revealed Nov p9
• The Cape of good hope Durrani M Dec p10

Ireland

• New funding for world-class science Moore J Jul p8
• Physicists mock firm free-energy claims Schirber M Oct

Italy

• Italy sets its sights on the Moon Moore J Feb p6
• Schools get to grips with cosmic rays Swarup B Oct p8

Japan

• Little joy for Japanese asteroid mission Moore J Jan p11
• New leader for Japanese lab Feb p10
• Making it big in Japan Markham D Mar p42
• Check out those flares Oct p8

Lasers and optics

• Coherent crystal shock Feb p5
• Photonic crystals shine on Krauss T Feb p32
• The quest for brightness Stenholm S Mar p38
• Blue-sky thinking Clegg B Apr p39
• Now you see it... Jul p5
• Disappearing act Leonhardt U, Philbin T Sep p30
• Optical take on NMR Oct p5
• Era of the super X-ray laser beckons Haugaard Nielsen R Oct p7

Lateral thoughts

• Rutherford and the Trinity golf circus Batchelor M Jan p48
• The truth about teaching Whalley M Feb p52
• Anyone for new physics? Sherlock J Mar p56
• Star quality Holt C Apr p56
• Cooking with electricity Mills A May p56
• Why 'wow' will not work Macdonald A Jun p56
• Learning from America Brown J Jul p52
• A physicist in a foreign land Lewalle A Aug p52
• Digital universal warming Deam R Sep p56
• The small hadron collider Duke P Oct p68
• Back to the envelope Robinson A Nov p52
• Quiz of the year 2006 Dec p64

Low-temperature physics

• Quantum turbulence Fisher S, Pickett G Apr p22
• Supersolid dilemma Dec p4

Mathematical and statistical physics

• A condensed-matter calculator Mar p4
• Model reveals property market is set to slump Jul p5
• Lies, damned lies Nov p3
• Magnetism of shopping Nov p5
• The Tao of mathematics Nov p39
• The ties that bind Dec p5

Medical physics

• Veins to the surface Jan p5
• Ink-jet technology comes alive Feb p4
• Imager reveals infant brain damage Gould P Feb p6
• Physics firm targets new drugs Cartlidge E Feb p10
• Physics tackles tumours Mar p5
• Light-emitting diodes target breast cancer Aug p5
• Cheaper proton therapy moves closer Gwynne P Oct p9
• Interdisciplinary research splashes out Nov p5
• Radiation therapy feels the rhythm Nov p5
• Antiprotons pack a greater punch Freeman Tami Dec p8
• Sunny future for clean water Palmer D J Dec p11
• Physicists unveil skin tester Gould P Dec p14

Metrology

• Atomic clocks feel the heat Sep p4

Miscellaneous

• A hi-tech approach to history Gould P Jan p13
• In search of fun Jan p14
• Blogs add a new dimension to physics Gould P Feb p12
• The rise of the bloggers Durrani M Feb p13
• The mystery of the skipping stone Bocquet L, Clanet C Feb p29
• Great balls of lightning Mar p5
• Physics for fairer voting Życzkowski K, Słomczyński W, Zastawniak T Mar p35
• New Editor for Physics World Apr p8
• The pop-star professor Jenkins A Apr p10
• The Mpemba effect Durrani M Apr p13
• Does hot water freeze first? Ball P Apr p19
• Staying in tune with physics Howard D Apr p29
• UFOs debunked Jun p3
• Frosty response Jun p17
• Going for a wander Jun p17
• World's smallest fridge Jul p4
• When retirement looms Hellemans A Jul p11
• Life after the lab Jul p13
• Meteorological mystery of rain clouds solved Sep p5
• Ponder this Sep p19
• A fine point Linton J Oct p18
• How to become an expert dowser Nov p3
• When two worlds collide Nov p3
• Bowling machine delivers new spin on cricket Griffiths M Nov p12
• A forked tale Nov p19
• Redefining fine-structure Nov p19
• Physicists who fancy a flutter Griffiths M Dec p12
• A still finer point Dec p19
• Quiz of the year 2006 Dec p64

Nanotechnology

• Silence is golden at new lab in Bristol Griffiths M Jun p9
• Small returns for nanoscience? Jones R Jun p38
• Big boost for small science in India Jul p8
• Reducing friction at the nano scale Aug p4
• US firm boosts solar-cell production Durrani M Aug p10
• Image of nano doom Nov p3
• Designing nanofactories in a sandpit Swarup B Dec p14

Nuclear physics

• Future looks rosy for American collider Gwynne P Feb p11
• Physicists target radioactive waste Cartlidge E Mar p7
• Golden jubilee for Russian lab Cartlidge E Mar p7
• Pushing nuclei to the extreme Stevenson P, Walker P Apr p32
• The nuclear alternative Norman P Apr p42
• Probing the nucleus and beyond Cartlidge E May p10
• A cool solution to waste disposal Cartlidge E Aug p9
• Element 118 discovered Nov p4

Nuclear power

• Doubts over nuclear power exposed Jan p9
• Nuclear questions Jan p14
• A better way to destroy plutonium Grae S, Morozov A and Mushakov A Feb p14
• Nuclear future for China Cartlidge E Apr p11
• ...but nuclear is not the answer for the UK Cartlidge E Apr p11
• A future for nuclear power Goddard T Apr p15
• UK told to bury its radioactive waste Cartlidge E Jun p8
• The Scandinavian secret to waste disposal Haugaard Nielsen R Jun p8
• Waste matters Jun p13
• Fusion challenge Jun p17
• Ontario plans new nuclear plants Jul p8
• Uk backs new nuclear generation Cartlidge E Aug p7
• A cool solution to waste disposal Cartlidge E Aug p9
• Nuclear futures Sep p19
• A bright future for uranium Nov p18

Nuclear weapons

• America seeks smaller nuclear stockpile Gwynne P May p6
• Antinuclear call to arms Cartlidge E Jun p10

Obituaries

• Pioneer of quark model dies Griffiths M Mar p9
• Antiproton co-discoverer dies Durrani M Apr p12
• Quark scientist dies Jun p7
• Raymond Davis 1914-2006 Lande K Jul p12
• Van Allen, space-science pioneer, dies Cartlidge E Sep p13
• Neutrino Nobel laureate dies Durrani M Oct p9

Optics

• Veins to the surface Jan p5
• Ponder this Sep p19
• Invisibility cloak becomes reality Nov p9
• Smart lenses Jiang H, Dong L Nov p29

Particle physics

• Spain opens laboratory beneath the Pyrenees Swarup B Jan p8
• Plans for 40 km linear collider unveiled Cartlidge E Jan p9
• Plasmas surf the high-energy frontier Krushelnick K, Najmudin Z Feb p24
• Pioneer of quark model dies Griffiths M Mar p9
• Tabletop accelerators move closer Gould P Mar p9
• Muon colliders are back in the running Griffiths M Mar p11
• Fermilab probes antimatter flip May p4
• US told to invest in particle physics Gwynne P May p6
• Sleeping giant Durrani M May p13
• Antimatter probe targets cosmic rays Schirber M Jun p7
• Rapid-repeat accelerator sets record Griffiths M Jun p11
• China and US join forces on neutrinos Schirber M Jul p7
• LHC due for 2007 start Jul p8
• Particle physicists measure matter-antimatter flip Kroll J Jul p32
• Laser could create dark-matter particles Swarup B Aug p8
• Listening for the sounds from the deep Cartlidge E Aug p10
• Europe sets outs its collider vision Schirber M Aug p13
• Tracking neutrino oscillations Cartlidge E Aug p31
• Living the Nobel dream Durrani M Sep p10
• Champagne moments Oct p15
• How the US sees the LHC Lockyer N Oct p16
• Tackling LHC anxieties Crease R P Oct p17
• Life at the high-energy frontier Chalmers M Oct p20
• Expedition to inner space Parker A Oct p26
• Gearing up for the grid Griffiths M Oct p33
• Beautiful asymmetry Forty R Oct p37
• A machine called ALICE Schukraft J, Schutz Y, Wiedemann U Oct p40
• Beyond the Higgs Cartlidge E Oct p42
• Against reductionism Durrani M Nov p10
• Cleaning up dark matter Bignami G, Dupays A Nov p20
• Particles and patriotism Nov p39
• Baryon bonanza Dec p4
• Colourful calculations Daviesis C Dec p20

Physics and religion

• Physicist bags religion prize Apr p8

Physics and sport

• A new angle on throwing Linthorne N Jun p29

Plasma physics

• Plasmas surf the high-energy frontier Krushelnick K, Najmudin Z Feb p24
• Fusion: the way ahead Pitts R, Buttery R, Pinches S Mar p20

Publishing

• Hot topics in physics revealed Dume B Jun p7
• Is your research popular or not? Meho L Jul p16
• Revealed - the world's most creative physicist Dume B Sep p9
• Newton, Einstein and the monstrous calf Nikbin D Oct p8
• Astronomer royal Cartlidge E Oct p12

Quantum physics

• Ion trap on a chip Jan p4
• Ions break the record for entanglement Jenkins A Jan p31
• A condensed-matter calculator Mar p4
• Entagled photons on demand Apr p4
• Quantum turbulence Fisher S, Pickett G Apr p22
• Silence is golden at new lab in Bristol Griffiths M Jun p9
• Refining the fine-structure constant Sep p4
• A human as a quantum object Sep p7
• Quantum gases feel the heat Nov p4

Science and society

• Making your way into the media Mellor F Jan p38
• Fraud alert Durrani M Feb p13
• Curing anosognosia Crease R P Feb p18
• From stars to celebrities Durrani M Mar p15
• Words matter Jun p13
• Just a theory Crease R P Jun p16
• Why 'wow' will not work Macdonald A Jun p56
• Tackling LHC anxieties Crease R P Oct p17
• Where passions run deep Nov p13
• Religious reactions Dec p18

Semiconductors and electronics

• Spray-on silicon May p4
• Spin Hall effect hots up Oct p4

Sociology of Science

• Off-hand remarks Crease R P Apr p14

Space science and the solar system

• NASA catches first cosmic dust Swarup B Feb p7
• Tuning in to Titan Lebreton J Feb p20
• Space: the choice is endless Metzger P Feb p42
• The threat from above Cartlidge E Mar p27
• NASA set to chop science funding Gwynne P Apr p8
• Second life for European ice mission Apr p8
• Search begins for alien laser pulses Apr p8
• Mars water mission passes key test Swarup B Apr p8
• Double whammy for lunar water mission More J May p8
• New satellite network to monitor rainfall Swarup B May p12
• NASA heads to the clouds Moore J May p12
• Antimatter probe targets cosmic rays Schirber M Jun p7
• Countdown to space tourism Swarup B Aug p11
• Atom optics moves into space Sep p7
• Van Allen, space-science pioneer, dies Cartlidge E Sep p13
• Bubbles in space Oct p5
• Check out those flares Oct p8

Superconductivity

• Floating Trains heat up Jan p5
• Supercool mobile masts Mar p5
• Two decades on Durrani M Apr p13
• Nano-scale boost for superwires May p4
• High-temperature superconductor reveals its true colours Aug p5
• Superconducting wire breaks current record Sep p5

UK

• Funding cheif returns to his roots Jan p10
• Mostly good, but some improvement needed Griffiths M Feb p9
• New rules aim for fairer funding Durrani M Mar p10
• Scientists fear for future of big science Griffiths M May p7
• Costly RAE could be scrapped Durrani M May p7
• UK needs more neutrons May p12
• Changing times Jun p3
• UK told to bury its radioactive waste Cartlidge E Jun p8
• New Synchron source lights up Griffiths M Aug p8
• Schools get telescopes for free Aug p9
• Physicists target novel light source Cartlidge E Sep p8
• Large Facilities Council gets the go-ahead Griffiths M Sep p8
• Educating the scientist and the citizen Cartlidge E Sep p12
• Physics exams - not what they were Piper G Sep p18
• Campus 'dipole' launched Oct p8
• Reading plans to shut physics department Cartwright J Nov p9
• Science minister stands down Dec p9
• UK seals fate of radioactive waste Dec p9
• Clean-up costs must be nailed down Dec p9
• Kavli comes to Cambridge Dec p13
• New security breach at Los Alamos Dec p13

US

• NASA sets its sights on Pluto Gwynne P Jan p11
• California retains right to run Los Alamos Gwynne P Feb p9
• US space science faces cuts Feb p10
• Future looks rosy for American collider Gwynne P Feb p11
• Tide turns for American physics Gwynne P Mar p8
• NASA set to chop science funding Gwynne P Apr p8
• Speculation greets unexpected resignation of lab boss Gwynne P Apr p12
• US told to invest in particle physics Gwynne P May p6
• America seeks smaller nuclear stockpile Gwynne P May p6
• Physicists warn Bush over Iran May p8
• AIP settles editor's lawsuit May p12
• Sleeping giant Durrani M May p13
• America re-enters the neutron race Gwynne P Jun p12
• Learning from America Brown J Jul p52
• Bumpy ride for US underground lab Gwynne P Aug p13
• Institute backs way-out physics Sep p8
• NASA tackles dark-energy challenge Swarup B Sep p9
• Six goals for atomic science Sep p9
• US invests in biofuel research Sep p9
• How the US sees the LHC Lockyer N Oct p16
• Scientists step up political pressure Gwynne P Nov p8
• Writer leads cosmic think tank Durrani M Nov p9
• US astronomers face swingeing cuts Gwynne P Dec p7
• Scientists welcome election results Gwynne P Dec p8