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Accelerators/acceleration mechanisms

  • Japanese lab produces its first neutrons Jun p7
  • A taste of LHC physics Gershon T Jun p22

Acoustics

  • Holey sheet stops sound Oct p5

American Physical Society

  • Letters that made a journal Banks M Jun p12

Applications

  • Holography gets smart Lowe C and Larbey C Feb p21
  • Invisibility rules the waves Lavers C Mar p21
  • New test for reactors Apr p5
  • Insect inspiration McIntosh A and Beheshti N Apr p29
  • Audio's holy grail May p3
  • Radar matters Kinglsey F; Lamden R May p22
  • Dreaming in plastic Korzhov M, Shikler R and Andelman D Jul p29
  • Liquid mirror deforms Sep p4
  • Third world microscope Sep p5
  • Pulsar signal for phones Oct p5
  • Proton-beam technique dates fine wine Oct p12
  • 'Stamp' produces bendy, transparent solar cells Nov p4
  • Water waves coast to safety Nov p5
  • First commercial quantum network tested in Vienna Nov p10

Art and science

Astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology

  • Santa spotted? Jan p3
  • Axion experiments called into doubt Jan p4
  • Probe likens young Venus to Earth Jan p5
  • Intel founder gives £200m for telescope Jan p8
  • Nobel laureate parts with winnings Jan p9
  • Big burst fails to make waves Feb p4
  • Dark-matter map illuminates dark energy's push Feb p5
  • Telescope project gets $30m in gifts Feb p10
  • MAGIC clarifications Ellis J and Mavromatos N Feb p19
  • Radio giants come into focus Dorminey B Feb p27
  • A star-studded adventure Feb p37
  • Venus: our non-identical twin Taylor F Mar p31
  • Five-year WMAP data give thumbs up to cosmic model Apr p5
  • Doubt cast on wet Mars Apr p5
  • Jodrell Bank faces possible closure Apr p8
  • Arizona telescope sees double Apr p11
  • The search for astroengineers Dorminey B Apr p32
  • Underwater telescope hunts neutrinos May p9
  • Telescope network in seventh heaven May p10
  • NASA extends Cassini mission May p10
  • GLAST goes for blast-off McEnery J, Ritz S and Gehrels N May p31
  • Save our telescope Jun p3
  • Dark-matter claims disputed Jun p4
  • Giant array starts to take shape Jun p7
  • Galaxy quest Jun p39
  • Dying star spotted Jul p4
  • Gamma-ray observatory takes off Jul p10
  • A light in the dark? Cartlidge E Aug p23
  • Thesis that will rock you Sep p3
  • Dark energy gives its 'most direct' signal Sep p5
  • Great debate probes Pluto's planetary credentials Sep p9
  • Eyeballing the universe Lintott C and Land K Sep p27
  • Blog life: Leaves on the Line Sep p41
  • Stars dodge black holes Oct p4
  • Dark-matter 'paparazzi' exposed Oct p9
  • Astroparticle road map unveiled Nov p11
  • The digital universe Lloyd S Nov p30
  • Create your own universe Dec p3
  • Galaxy survey casts doubt on cold dark matter Dec p4
  • Astronomers snap alien worlds Dec p5
  • Hopes rise for antimatter mission aboard space shuttle Dec p8
  • The life of NASA's Phoenix: highlights of its mission to Mars Dec p8
  • Telescope to clean up echo of Big Bang Dec p11
  • Cosmic-ray observatory is inaugurated Dec p11
  • A feast of visualization Dec p20
  • A picture of the cosmos SubbaRao M and Aragon-Calvo M Dec p29
  • Wars of the holographic world Dec p41
  • Hubble's unsung heroes Lauer T R Dec p43
  • Astronomy down under Dec p49

Atomic and molecular physics

  • Coulomb test proposed Jan p4
  • Single atoms feel the force Apr p4
  • Laser physicist looks to the Sun Chu S Apr p12
  • TEM sees the light Aug p4
  • Atoms do a clover to the 'bose-nova' Oct p5

Australia

  • Labor government tackles science Jan p9
  • Australia seeks free science debate Apr p11
  • Pair take top science posts Nov p9

Awards and prizes

  • Quantum physicist joins Japan's elite Feb p13
  • Rise of the dragon Banks M Aug p14
  • Superfluidity: three people, two papers, one prize Griffin A Aug p27
  • Life-changing innovations Aug p47
  • Particle theorists scoop Nobel prize Cartwright J Nov p6
  • Rip up the rule book Nov p15

Biophysics

  • Flytrap inspires optics Jan p5
  • The optimistic heretic Dyson F Jan p12
  • Holography gets smart Lowe C and Larbey C Feb p21
  • Insect inspiration McIntosh A and Beheshti N Apr p29
  • An emotional test May p5
  • Ozone could clean up Jun p5
  • Shedding light on life O'Shea P, Somekh M and Barnes W Jun p29
  • Shrimp vision polarized Jul p5
  • Nanotubes grow bone Jul p5
  • Physicists pull off the gecko's feat Nov p5

Books reviewed

  • Healing the mental scars Cassidy D C Jan p34
  • Taking the trip of a lifetime Pegg D Jan p36
  • Rocket man Jan p37
  • Law and order Jan p37
  • Food for thought Jan p37
  • Thinking big Collins H Feb p36
  • A star-studded adventure Feb p37
  • Something from nothing Feb p37
  • Divine inspiration Feb p37
  • Joyriding through physics Feb p37
  • Quotable physics Chomet S Mar
  • The story of gravity Kennefick D Apr p36
  • Stories behind the inventions Apr p37
  • Quantum theory for everyone Apr p37
  • For old times' sake Apr p37
  • Mission impossible Fraser G May p40
  • Echoes and images Griffiths H May p42
  • Keeping it in the family Meurig Thomas J Jul p42
  • Confound your intuition Jul p43
  • Guessing games Jul p43
  • The cost of going nuclear Jul p43
  • Postmodernism, politics and religion Anderson P Aug p40
  • List mania Muller F A Aug p42
  • The new space age Aug p43
  • Surviving academic life Aug p43
  • The mathematical rabbit hole Aug p43
  • Thesis that will rock you Sep p3
  • Einstein unmasked Foster B Sep p38
  • Cosmic eruptions Sep p39
  • It's all relative Sep p39
  • A flat-out read Sep p39
  • A tale of eternal energy Cartlidge E Sep p40
  • Pop science's big bang Barrow J D Oct p30
  • Nature's statute book Taylor J Nov p38
  • Paranoia, amateur style Corfield R Nov p40
  • Its and bits, lightly Nov p41
  • Quantifying doom and gloom Nov p41
  • From Mumbai to the Moon Nov p41
  • Attention, President Obama Goldston R Dec p39
  • Wars of the holographic world Dec p41
  • Hubble's unsung heroes Lauer T R Dec p43
  • Physics books crossword Dec p44
  • The remarkable life of Abdus Salam Moffat J W Dec p45
  • Bend it like Beckett Duff M Dec p46
  • Did you know that...? Dec p48
  • Coffee-table astrophysics Dec p48
  • Lonely bears and the cosmos Dec p48
  • Mostly harmless irresponsibility Dec p48
  • Astronomy down under Dec p49
  • A gem of a formula Dec p49
  • Puzzles from a mathemagician Dec p49

Canada

  • Reactor shutdown delays medical procedures Jan p8
  • Canada replaces nuclear-safety chief Feb p10
  • Canada attempts to lure top minds Apr p9
  • Theory institute appoints new head Jun p9
  • Canadian institute gets cash boost Jul p10

Careers and employment

CERN

  • CERN reveals next director general Jan p9
  • Full steam ahead Chalmers M Mar p12
  • The best job in physics? Mar p15
  • Courting controversy May p3
  • Budget cuts threaten UK's role in two LHC experiments May p11
  • CERN opens doors to dignitaries Jun p10
  • Hard up Jun p15
  • A taste of LHC physics Gershon T Jun p22
  • The LHC's a stage Jul p3
  • The LHC's a rap Sep p3
  • LHC finally gets ready for action Chalmers M Sep p6
  • All set for the LHC Sep p13
  • Renaissance man Amaldi U Sep p32
  • The day the world watched Oct p6
  • Ending the great drought Riordan M Oct p16
  • Out of this world Nov p3
  • LHC, still out of action, officially launches Nov p7
  • Beauty and the beast Crease R P Nov p19
  • The large hadron computer Hirstius A Nov p24
  • A new view of particle physics Medeiros J Nov p28
  • LHC on the mend after accident Dec p11

China

  • China set to join world synchrotron elite May p10
  • Particle collider turns up the charm Sep p7
  • Beijing looks to the stars Sep p11
  • China due for its first spacewalk Oct p9
  • The new geography of science Wilsdon J Oct p51
  • Ups and downs for Chinese scientists Brandon D; Guo Q Nov p21

Climate change and the environment

  • The optimistic heretic Dyson F Jan p12
  • The heat is on Murray T, Rutt I and Vaughan D May p24
  • Climate models prevail Jul p4
  • Cow power Sep p3
  • Monitoring the melting of the Arctic Kalaugher L Sep p10
  • Rewards of renewables McNamee G Sep p42
  • Virgin's Knight tackles climate change Nov p13

Computation and software

Condensed matter

Education

  • Dancing with physics Barber and Popalisky Jan p29
  • Lightning telly Apr p3
  • Is GCSE science a waste of time? Ellse M Apr p18
  • Physics of beer? Calverd A M Apr p18
  • Back to school Gomez E Apr p40
  • GCSE science — a dual problem Huber M; Hill T May p22
  • The world's youngest professor? Jun p3
  • Italian school students enjoy the ride Jun p10
  • Free textbooks for all Horner M and Halliday S Jun p16
  • GCSE science debate Osborne J; Ireson G; Huber M Jun p20
  • Seeking an African Einstein Jul p11
  • Breaking the grey ceiling Grozier J Jul p18
  • GCSE lacks diversity Ellse M Jul p21
  • Curriculum concerns Keir A; Huber M; Smith J Aug p21
  • France sets its universities free Sep p8

Energy

  • Italian village leads lighting revolution Jan p10
  • Generating job options Eberlein J Jan p38
  • UK government opts for nuclear power Feb p10
  • Laser physicist looks to the Sun Chu S Apr p12
  • Wave power made easy Aug p5
  • Italy trials solar-thermal power plant Aug p10
  • India tests merits of thorium reactor Aug p10
  • Biofuel considerations Joyce K; Morley J Aug p21
  • US nuclear repository under threat Sep p9
  • Biofuels: not so bad Thornley P Sep p22
  • Rewards of renewables McNamee G Sep p42
  • 'Stamp' produces bendy, transparent solar cells Nov p4

Europe

  • Telescope network in seventh heaven May p10
  • Europe plans world-beating laser May p10
  • Spanish synchrotron facility warms up Aug p9
  • Fame or footnote? Aug p17
  • Turning Europe's innovation dream into a working reality Tindemans P Aug p18
  • And the winners are... Banks M Sep p12
  • Europe plans €1bn laser-fusion project Nov p9

European Space Agency

  • Probe likens young Venus to Earth Jan p5

European Union

  • Towards a European funding union Halliday I May p18

Facilities

  • KEK outlines bold future for article physics Feb p10
  • Diamond is on budget Materlik G Feb p19
  • Jodrell Bank faces possible closure Apr p8
  • Sowing the seeds of SESAME Rabinovici E Apr p16
  • Neutrons probe magnetic fields May p5
  • LIGO upgrade boosts search for gravitational waves May p8
  • China set to join world synchrotron elite May p10
  • ...as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory lays off staff Jul p8
  • Neutron lab hits second target Banks M Jul p12
  • Spanish synchrotron facility warms up Aug p9
  • Jefferson lab receives upgrade boost Oct p8
  • SESAME seeks cash to open its doors Dec p7

Fluid dynamics

France

  • Protests force rethink on CNRS reforms Aug p8
  • Sarkozy plans new nuclear plant Aug p11
  • France sets its universities free Sep p8

Fusion

  • UK physicist takes key fusion post Jan p9
  • US halts Princeton University fusion facility Jul p13
  • Europe plans €1bn laser-fusion project Nov p9

Geophysics

  • US unveils roadmap for geophysics Apr p9
  • Cosmic eruptions Sep p39

Germany

  • Healing the mental scars Cassidy D C Jan p34
  • Germany gets largest ever MRI scanner Jul p10
  • New facility can recreate Sun's corona Jul p10
  • Germany unites behind national academy Aug p9
  • 'World class' aim for new optics lab Dec p10
  • Condensed-matter physicist to head DESY Dec p10

Gravity and general relativity

  • Warp speed ahead Swarup B Jan p11
  • Taking the trip of a lifetime Pegg D Jan p36
  • Dark-matter map illuminates dark energy's push Feb p5
  • A glow on the horizon Cartwright J Apr p14
  • The story of gravity Kennefick D Apr p36
  • LIGO upgrade boosts search for gravitational waves May p8
  • Dark-matter 'paparazzi' exposed Oct p9

History of physics

  • In a parallel world Jan p3
  • The last of its breed Crease RP Jan p16
  • Healing the mental scars Cassidy D C Jan p34
  • A passion for history Banks M Feb p11
  • Real thoughts Feb p15
  • Co-operation – not competition – wins race Schaller A Feb p19
  • Spin pioneers Lazarus M Feb p20
  • William Cavendish: the man behind the lab Constable A Feb p30
  • A remarkable legacy Parkinson S Feb p34
  • A mind of her own Crease R P Mar p17
  • Quotable physics Chomet S Mar
  • John Bardeen: an extraordinary physicist Hoddeson L Apr p22
  • The story of gravity Kennefick D Apr p36
  • The Bohr paradox Crease R May p20
  • Record bid for Einstein letter Jun p13
  • Remembering Wheeler Datta T Jun p21
  • Henri Becquerel: serendipitous brilliance Margaritondo G Jun p26
  • Galileo's wondrous telescope Jun p37
  • Groomed for success Jun p39
  • Radar history Putley E Jul p21
  • Luck and genius O'Raifeartaigh C Jul p21
  • Keeping it in the family Meurig Thomas J Jul p42
  • List mania Muller F A Aug p42
  • Renaissance man Amaldi U Sep p32
  • The global-village pioneers Ginsparg P Oct p22
  • Independent thinking Infeld E Dec p19
  • The remarkable life of Abdus Salam Moffat J W Dec p45

India

  • Physicist sets up pioneering science park in India May p11
  • Bangalore looks to new interdisciplinary science centre Sep p7
  • The new geography of science Wilsdon J Oct p51
  • Chandrayaan-1 mission blasts off to the Moon Nov p8
  • US reopens nuclear trade with India Nov p8

Industry and innovation

  • Italian village leads lighting revolution Jan p10
  • Firm offers $1.6bn lift into space Feb p9
  • Car companies look to generate power from waste heat Apr p10
  • Royal Society offers funds for technology start-ups Apr p10
  • Industrial concerns Apr p15
  • Once a physicist: Kris Gopalakrishnan Apr p42
  • Seeking a new symbol of innovation Notton J Apr p52
  • EADS Astrium to buy Surrey Satellites May p9
  • Building for the future Eastwell A Jul p46
  • Wave power made easy Aug p5
  • IBM forms new nanotech hub Aug p9
  • Bright future for plastic Fisher M Aug p11
  • Fame or footnote? Aug p17
  • Turning Europe's innovation dream into a working reality Tindemans P Aug p18
  • Scientists condemn space-chief sacking Sep p8
  • UK consolidates nuclear capabilities Sep p11
  • Satellites to provide broadband Oct p9
  • Corporate interests Ouellette J Oct p39
  • Sound technique to unplug oil pipes Nov p5

International

  • Sowing the seeds of SESAME Rabinovici E Apr p16
  • Giant array starts to take shape Jun p7
  • ITER launch faces two-year delay Jul p7
  • Seeking an African Einstein Jul p11
  • Singapore opens 'Fusionopolis' Nov p11
  • Developing new minds Cartlidge E Dec p14

Internet

Ireland

  • Dublin centre sees light of day Jan p10

Italy

  • Italian village leads lighting revolution Jan p10
  • Physicists count the cost of opposition to the Pope Feb p8
  • Once a physicist: Salvator Roberto Amendolia Mar p42
  • Italy flags scientific shortcomings Apr p11
  • Italian school students enjoy the ride Jun p10
  • Galileo's wondrous telescope Jun p37
  • Italy makes a return to the nuclear fold Jul p9
  • DAFNE upgrade leads the way to B-meson superfactory Jul p9
  • Scientists condemn space-chief sacking Sep p8
  • Renaissance man Amaldi U Sep p32
  • Italian protesters win concessions Dec p7

Japan

  • KEK outlines bold future for article physics Feb p10
  • Quantum physicist joins Japan's elite Feb p13
  • Japan places hope in Space Station Apr p7
  • Japanese lab produces its first neutrons Jun p7
  • Sacred geometry Jun p39

Lasers and optics

  • Europe plans world-beating laser May p10
  • Europe plans €1bn laser-fusion project Nov p9

Lateral thoughts

  • Post-modern physics, bathtub style Robinson A Jan p48
  • The Institute of Psychics? Hackett A Feb p48
  • What's in a name? Whalley M Mar
  • Seeking a new symbol of innovation Notton J Apr p52
  • An outreach adventure Vukusic P May p56
  • Inspiring students Robinson A Jun p21
  • Beware the abdabs Davies G G Jun p52
  • The last lecture O'Raifeartaigh C Jul p56
  • Conferences revisited Radcliffe J Aug p56
  • Perfect and improving Kerr R Sep p52
  • Universal cause for celebration Geting P Nov p52

Light sources, synchotrons and free-electron lasers

  • Sowing the seeds of SESAME Rabinovici E Apr p16
  • UK unveils plans for new light source May p10
  • China set to join world synchrotron elite May p10
  • Sweden pushes X-rays to the MAX Nov p11
  • SESAME seeks cash to open its doors Dec p7

Low-temperature physics

  • Inspired thinking Chalmers M Aug p12
  • Rise of the dragon Banks M Aug p14
  • Superfluidity: three people, two papers, one prize Griffin A Aug p27
  • Helium monster waves Sep p5
  • A model physicist Wen H-H Sep p22
  • Rebirth of the hot Wen H-H Sep p23

Mathematical and statistical physics

  • Constant failure Crease R P Feb p18
  • A mind of her own Crease R P Mar p17
  • Sacred geometry Jun p39
  • Breaking through Jul p17
  • A gathering for Gardner Crease R P Jul p20
  • Symmetry's physical dimension Maxfield S Jul p34
  • Confound your intuition Jul p43
  • The mathematical rabbit hole Aug p43
  • Animal magnetism Oct p3
  • It's a dog's life Oct p3
  • Shifty constants Crease R P Dec p18
  • Coke is not it Haupt A Dec p19
  • Thinking outside the cube Hidalgo C A Dec p34
  • Wars of the holographic world Dec p41
  • Bend it like Beckett Duff M Dec p46
  • Did you know that...? Dec p48

Medical physics

  • Reactor shutdown delays medical procedures Jan p8
  • Cloak of silence revealed Feb p5
  • Canada replaces nuclear-safety chief Feb p10
  • CT speeds up Dawson P Mar
  • Physicist sets up pioneering science park in India May p11
  • Germany gets largest ever MRI scanner Jul p10
  • Fat lot of good Oct p3
  • Medical-isotope supply hit by production problems Oct p12
  • Optical textile tests MRI patients from afar Nov p10
  • 'M' for medical isotopes Nov p22
  • Physics of medicine centre launches Dec p11
  • A feast of visualization Dec p20

Metrology

Microscopy

  • Single atoms feel the force Apr p4
  • TEM sees the light Aug p4

Miscellaneous

  • Twin paradox Jan p3
  • Room service Feb p3
  • Showered with surprises Feb p3
  • More physics twins Shemilt J; Hodge A; White M; Dewhurst S; Evans C J; Smith R Feb p20
  • Don't panic – bathe! Fothergill J Feb p20
  • Invisibility rules the waves Lavers C Mar p21
  • 2π or not 2π Olley R; McGovern I Apr p18
  • Seeing double Higgins W S Apr p18
  • Lab architecture Crease R P Apr p19
  • Einstein gets in the zone May p3
  • Energy, mass and Mariah May p3
  • Coming clean May p23
  • Eddington, starring the Doctor Jun p3
  • Save our telescope Jun p3
  • Groomed for success Jun p39
  • Code crackers wanted Jul p3
  • Moving walls Ansell D Jul p21
  • Watch your speed Aug p3
  • Pi in the sky Aug p3
  • Lightning Bolt Oct p3
  • Map of physics Oct p36
  • Life at the frontier Crease R P Oct p45
  • The new geography of science Wilsdon J Oct p51
  • ...And now for the next 20 years Oct p54
  • The science that never was Jeandron M Oct p72
  • Newton's very own Hawking Nov p3
  • Pull over Nov p3
  • Getting lost in the 'Map of physics' Allen F; Donald A and Huppert J Nov p21
  • Kipling revisited Aravind P Nov p22
  • Tennis for two, anyone? Dec p3
  • Paris heads to space Dec p3
  • Seeing is believing Dec p15
  • Mesoscopic mapping Goodman M Dec p19
  • Physics books crossword Dec p44
  • Quiz of the year 2008 Dec p60

Nanotechnology

  • World's smallest bible Feb p3
  • Single atoms feel the force Apr p4
  • 'Pine tree' nanowires do the Eshelby twist Jun p5
  • Nanotubes grow bone Jul p5
  • IBM forms new nanotech hub Aug p9
  • Physicists pull off the gecko's feat Nov p5
  • Obama goes nano Dec p3
  • Bendy wires could power mobile phones Dec p5

Nuclear physics

  • Radioactivity doubles up Blank B May p35
  • Blog life: Entropy Bound Jun p40
  • Fallout exposes fake art Aug p5
  • US teams vie for rare-isotope facility Aug p7
  • Proton-beam technique dates fine wine Oct p12

Nuclear power

  • Generating job options Eberlein J Jan p38
  • UK government opts for nuclear power Feb p10
  • New test for reactors Apr p5
  • Slow clean-up for fast reactor Banks M May p12
  • Row erupts over US firm's plan to import nuclear waste Jun p8
  • Decontamination puzzle Vogler C Jun p20
  • Physicists without borders Jeandron M Jun p42
  • Italy makes a return to the nuclear fold Jul p9
  • The cost of going nuclear Jul p43
  • India tests merits of thorium reactor Aug p10
  • Sarkozy plans new nuclear plant Aug p11
  • US plans new prototype reactor Sep p11
  • UK consolidates nuclear capabilities Sep p11
  • US reopens nuclear trade with India Nov p8
  • US company unveils plans for mini nuclear reactors Dec p9
  • A feast of visualization Dec p20

Nuclear weapons

Obituaries

  • Spin pioneer dies Jan p9
  • Arthur C Clarke dies at 90 Apr p11
  • Giant of physics John Wheeler dies Ford K May p7
  • Passing of a legend May p17
  • Willis Lamb: 1913–2008 Jul p13
  • Japanese particle-physics leader dies Aug p13
  • Inverted conceit Brewer D; Stenholm S Aug p22

Optics

  • Flytrap inspires optics Jan p5
  • Holography gets smart Lowe C and Larbey C Feb p21
  • Light mystery solved Apr p4
  • A glow on the horizon Cartwright J Apr p14
  • Auroral light is polarized Jun p5
  • Shrimp vision polarized Jul p5
  • Third world microscope Sep p5
  • Optical textile tests MRI patients from afar Nov p10
  • X-rays from sticky tape Dec p5
  • 'World class' aim for new optics lab Dec p10

Particle physics

  • Axion experiments called into doubt Jan p4
  • KEK outlines bold future for article physics Feb p10
  • Full steam ahead Chalmers M Mar p12
  • The best job in physics? Mar p15
  • What's in a name? Whalley M Mar
  • Give your favourite particle a home Apr p3
  • Budget cuts threaten UK's role in two LHC experiments May p11
  • ILC is best bar none Jun p3
  • A taste of LHC physics Gershon T Jun p22
  • The LHC's a stage Jul p3
  • Particle physicists told to confront new challenges... Jul p8
  • DAFNE upgrade leads the way to B-meson superfactory Jul p9
  • The lightest bottomonia Aug p4
  • Europe prepares for the ILC Aug p11
  • Japanese particle-physics leader dies Aug p13
  • LHC finally gets ready for action Chalmers M Sep p6
  • Particle collider turns up the charm Sep p7
  • All set for the LHC Sep p13
  • The day the world watched Oct p6
  • Ending the great drought Riordan M Oct p16
  • Life at the frontier Crease R P Oct p45
  • The science that never was Jeandron M Oct p72
  • Particle theorists scoop Nobel prize Cartwright J Nov p6
  • LHC, still out of action, officially launches Nov p7
  • Media darling Cox B Nov p12
  • Rip up the rule book Nov p15
  • Beauty and the beast Crease R P Nov p19
  • The large hadron computer Hirstius A Nov p24
  • A new view of particle physics Medeiros J Nov p28
  • Tevatron reveals new particles, maybe Dec p4
  • Condensed-matter physicist to head DESY Dec p10

Philosophy of science

  • Food for thought Jan p37

Physics and finance

Physics and religion

  • The optimistic heretic Dyson F Jan p12
  • Physicists count the cost of opposition to the Pope Feb p8
  • Divine inspiration Feb p37
  • Templeton Prize again goes to physicist Apr p8
  • A voice for Muslims Bari M A Jun p11
  • Record bid for Einstein letter Jun p13
  • The last lecture O'Raifeartaigh C Jul p56
  • A question of trust Crease R P Aug p20

Physics and sport

  • Baseball on a high? Apr p3
  • Football's new wave Aug p3

Plasma physics

  • ITER launch faces two-year delay Jul p7
  • New facility can recreate Sun's corona Jul p10
  • Plasma physics goes beyond fusion Franklin R Nov p22
  • The origins of 'plasma' Braithwaite N Dec p19

Publishing

Publishing and public understanding

Quantum physics

  • In a parallel world Jan p3
  • Blog life: The Quantum Pontiff Jan p35
  • Quantum theory for everyone Apr p37
  • Single photons in space May p4
  • Quantum communication set for space Jul p11
  • A quantum renaissance Aspelmeyer M Jul p22
  • Remapping the quantum frontier Monroe C and Lukin M Aug p32
  • Clocking the signal of entanglement Sep p4
  • Quantum of culture Crease R P Sep p19
  • Quantum repeater demonstrated Oct p4
  • First commercial quantum network tested in Vienna Nov p10
  • The digital universe Lloyd S Nov p30
  • Seeing the quantum world Sanders B Dec p24

Research conduct and ethics

  • Scientist to appeal misconduct charge Aug p11
  • Physicist falls foul of US export law Oct p11
  • Bubble-fusion professor loses faculty post Oct p11

Russia

  • Caucasus conflict challenges US space policy Oct p8

Science and society

  • Dublin centre sees light of day Jan p10
  • Physdamentalism Wilson P Jan p17
  • Screen star Feb p3
  • Doing physics in Second Life Medeiros J Feb p12
  • Second thoughts Feb p15
  • The Atomium marks a half century Apr p7
  • Italy flags scientific shortcomings Apr p11
  • Australia seeks free science debate Apr p11
  • Secure your future Acton J Aug p46
  • Eyeballing the universe Lintott C and Land K Sep p27
  • Science sidelined in US presidential campaign Gwynne P Oct p10
  • Media darling Cox B Nov p12
  • A picture of the cosmos SubbaRao M and Aragon-Calvo M Dec p29

Semiconductors and electronics

  • Spin pioneer dies Jan p9
  • The spintronics challenge Bland T, Lee K and Steinmüller Jan p24
  • Phononics gets hot Wang L and Li B Mar p27
  • John Bardeen: an extraordinary physicist Hoddeson L Apr p22
  • The memory race is on May p5
  • Dawn of the memristor Jun p4
  • Combination technique shows the strain Jul p5
  • Dreaming in plastic Korzhov M, Shikler R and Andelman D Jul p29
  • Bright future for plastic Fisher M Aug p11
  • Heat change gives spin current Nov p4
  • Seeing the quantum world Sanders B Dec p24

Sociology of Science

South Africa

  • Free textbooks for all Horner M and Halliday S Jun p16

Space science and the solar system

  • Warp speed ahead Swarup B Jan p11
  • Satellite myths Easton R L; Hall D Jan p17
  • Rocket man Jan p37
  • Firm offers $1.6bn lift into space Feb p9
  • Venus: our non-identical twin Taylor F Mar p31
  • Space cast Apr p3
  • Japan places hope in Space Station Apr p7
  • The search for astroengineers Dorminey B Apr p32
  • NASA science boss quits amid cash woes May p8
  • EADS Astrium to buy Surrey Satellites May p9
  • NASA extends Cassini mission May p10
  • GLAST goes for blast-off McEnery J, Ritz S and Gehrels N May p31
  • Solar spacecraft cleared for take-off Jun p10
  • Rocket man Becklake J Jun p38
  • Facts of life Jun p39
  • Toilet humour Jul p3
  • Saucer surveillance Jul p3
  • The International Space Station receives its largest science module Jul p7
  • Quantum communication set for space Jul p11
  • NASA prepares for its next half century Gwynne P Jul p14
  • The new space age Aug p43
  • Space networking Sep p3
  • Scientists condemn space-chief sacking Sep p8
  • Caucasus conflict challenges US space policy Oct p8
  • NASA selects new Mars mission Oct p9
  • China due for its first spacewalk Oct p9
  • Watch this space Nov p3
  • Chandrayaan-1 mission blasts off to the Moon Nov p8
  • Hubble rebooted after electrical fault Nov p11
  • Virgin's Knight tackles climate change Nov p13
  • Hopes rise for antimatter mission aboard space shuttle Dec p8
  • Road map points US to beyond the Moon Dec p10
  • Hubble's unsung heroes Lauer T R Dec p43
  • Space to explore Middleton K Dec p50

Students

Superconductivity

  • John Bardeen: an extraordinary physicist Hoddeson L Apr p22
  • Iron rocks the high-Tc world May p4
  • High-temperature superconducting wires power up Jun p8
  • Surprise return Sep p13
  • Rebirth of the hot Wen H-H Sep p23

Surface science

  • Single atoms feel the force Apr p4

Switzerland

  • IBM forms new nanotech hub Aug p9

UK

  • Funding bombshell hits UK physics Jan p7
  • The £80m black hole Jan p15
  • UK launches review into physics Feb p10
  • Diamond is on budget Materlik G Feb p19
  • Cash cuts slash morale Rafice S Mar
  • Jodrell Bank faces possible closure Apr p8
  • Royal Society offers funds for technology start-ups Apr p10
  • UK unveils plans for new light source May p10
  • Budget cuts threaten UK's role in two LHC experiments May p11
  • Save our telescope Jun p3
  • Theory institute appoints new head Jun p9
  • A voice for Muslims Bari M A Jun p11
  • Hard up Jun p15
  • GCSE science debate Osborne J; Ireson G; Huber M Jun p20
  • Decontamination puzzle Vogler C Jun p20
  • UK set to seal fate of projects Jul p10
  • Neutron lab hits second target Banks M Jul p12
  • Projects reprieved – but cuts still loom Aug p8
  • First a tragedy, then farce Foster B Sep p14
  • A programme to be proud of Mason K Sep p16
  • Deeper UK funding cuts Harnew N Nov p22

US

  • Moneymaker Jan p3
  • US physicists face tough year ahead Feb p7
  • Physicist wins seat in US Congress Apr p9
  • High-temperature superconducting wires power up Jun p8
  • Row erupts over US firm's plan to import nuclear waste Jun p8
  • Laureates hope letter to Bush will reverse budget woes Jun p9
  • Physicist named NASA science chief Jun p10
  • Solar spacecraft cleared for take-off Jun p10
  • Particle physicists told to confront new challenges... Jul p8
  • ...as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory lays off staff Jul p8
  • US halts Princeton University fusion facility Jul p13
  • NASA prepares for its next half century Gwynne P Jul p14
  • US teams vie for rare-isotope facility Aug p7
  • Supplemental bill saves staff lay-offs Aug p7
  • Carbon-capture plant wins reprieve Aug p11
  • US nuclear repository under threat Sep p9
  • Caucasus conflict challenges US space policy Oct p8
  • Jefferson lab receives upgrade boost Oct p8
  • Science sidelined in US presidential campaign Gwynne P Oct p10
  • US physicists face fresh budget crisis Nov p11
  • Has Bush been good for science? Marburger J H Nov p16
  • US company unveils plans for mini nuclear reactors Dec p9
  • Road map points US to beyond the Moon Dec p10
  • Attention, President Obama Goldston R Dec p39