Print edition - index 2008

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

• 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

• Artistic gravitas Aug p3
• Fallout exposes fake art Aug p5
• Crease R P Sep p19
• Oct p58

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
• Dorminey B Apr p32
• Underwater telescope hunts neutrinos May p9
• Telescope network in seventh heaven May p10
• NASA extends Cassini mission May p10
• 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
• 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
• Lintott C and Land K Sep p27
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Cartlidge E Sep p40
• Pop science's big bang Barrow J D Oct p30
• 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
• 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

• Eberlein J Jan p38
• Careers and people Jan p39
• Jan p40
• Giving students a taste of research Thoennessen M Feb p16
• Wilson C Feb p38
• Feb p39
• Careers and people Feb p40
• Jeandron M Mar p40
• Mar p42
• Gomez E Apr p40
• Careers and people Apr p41
• Apr p42
• Vincent-Humphreys de R May p44
• May p45
• Jeandron M Jun p42
• Seeking new space explorers Jun p43
• A right royal appointment Jun p43
• Movers and shakers Jun p43
• Jun p44
• Eastwell A Jul p46
• Jul p47
• Quasar pioneers rewarded Jul p48
• Europe promises better conditions Jul p48
• Top young physicists recognized Jul p48
• Movers and shakers Jul p48
• What grey ceiling? Flack R Aug p21
• Surviving academic life Aug p43
• Acton J Aug p46
• Keeping EU researchers in touch Aug p47
• Life-changing innovations Aug p47
• High honours for low temperatures Aug p47
• Movers and shakers Aug p47
• Aug p48
• Sep p41
• McNamee G Sep p42
• Sep p43
• Use your degree Sep p44
• Up the junction Sep p44
• Rethinking Masters degrees Sep p44
• Movers and shakers Sep p44
• Harris M Oct p56
• Oct p58
• US trio win national medals Oct p59
• Calling all extraterrestrial researchers Oct p59
• Nominees sought for Institute awards Oct p59
• Movers and shakers Oct p59
• Ups and downs for Chinese scientists Brandon D; Guo Q Nov p21
• Nov p42
• Nov p44
• Young scientists fly high Nov p45
• Developing-world physics Nov p45
• Movers and shakers Nov p45
• High-school physics students on the rise Dec p11
• Middleton K Dec p50
• Gong for graphene Dec p51
• MacArthur Fellows announced Dec p51
• Mathematical physicists wanted Dec p51
• Movers and shakers Dec p51
• Dec p52

CERN

• CERN reveals next director general Jan p9
• Chalmers M Mar p12
• 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
• 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
• Chalmers M Sep p6
• All set for the LHC Sep p13
• Renaissance man Amaldi U Sep p32
• The day the world watched Oct p6
• Riordan M Oct p16
• Out of this world Nov p3
• LHC, still out of action, officially launches Nov p7
• Crease R P Nov p19
• 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
• 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
• McNamee G Sep p42
• Virgin's Knight tackles climate change Nov p13

Computation and software

• Computer concerns Allsopp D; Brown R Jan p17
• Libbrecht K Jan p19
• Jan p40
• Fortran experiences Paix D Feb p19
• Glass arrested on the road to crystallization Aug p5
• Hirstius A Nov p24

Condensed matter

• Wet sand goes with flow Jan p5
• Libbrecht K Jan p19
• Bland T, Lee K and Steinmüller Jan p24
• Monopoles no ice Feb p4
• Light mystery solved Apr p4
• Glass arrested on the road to crystallization Aug p5
• Sep p13
• Rebirth of the hot Wen H-H Sep p23
• X-rays from sticky tape Dec p5
• Condensed-matter physicist to head DESY Dec p10
• Sanders B Dec p24

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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

• Wet sand goes with flow Jan p5
• Insect inspiration McIntosh A and Beheshti N Apr p29
• Crease R P Jun p18
• Dec p20

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
• 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
• Crease RP Jan p16
• Healing the mental scars Cassidy D C Jan p34
• A passion for history Banks M Feb p11
• 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
• Parkinson S Feb p34
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Apr p15
• Apr p42
• Seeking a new symbol of innovation Notton J Apr p52
• EADS Astrium to buy Surrey Satellites May p9
• 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
• 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

• Durrani M Oct p14
• Ginsparg P Oct p22

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
• 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

• 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

• Crease R P Feb p18
• Crease R P Mar p17
• Sacred geometry Jun p39
• Jul p17
• 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
• 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
• Dec p20

Metrology

• May p45

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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

• 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
• 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
• Dec p20

Nuclear weapons

• Parkinson S Feb p34
• Jeandron M Jun p42

Obituaries

• Spin pioneer dies Jan p9
• Arthur C Clarke dies at 90 Apr p11
• Giant of physics John Wheeler dies Ford K May p7
• 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
• 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
• Chalmers M Mar p12
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Crease R P Nov p19
• 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

• James J Apr p38
• Vincent-Humphreys de R May p44
• Financial crimes and punishments Plummer J Dec p19

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
• 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

• Jan p35
• Feb p35
• Mar p39
• Hottest researchers named Apr p11
• Apr p39
• Cartwright J May p14
• May p17
• May p43
• Jul p45
• Physics World turns 20 Oct p13
• Durrani M Oct p14
• Ginsparg P Oct p22
• Pop science's big bang Barrow J D Oct p30
• Nov p39
• The price of free papers Banks M Dec p12
• Access all areas Dec p15
• Free for all Harnad J Dec p16

Publishing and public understanding

• Crease RP Jan p16
• Think outside the box Rowlands P Sep p22

Quantum physics

• In a parallel world Jan p3
• Jan p35
• Quantum theory for everyone Apr p37
• Single photons in space May p4
• Quantum communication set for space Jul p11
• Aspelmeyer M Jul p22
• Remapping the quantum frontier Monroe C and Lukin M Aug p32
• Clocking the signal of entanglement Sep p4
• 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
• 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
• Medeiros J Feb p12
• Feb p15
• The Atomium marks a half century Apr p7
• Italy flags scientific shortcomings Apr p11
• Australia seeks free science debate Apr p11
• Acton J Aug p46
• 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
• Bland T, Lee K and Steinmüller Jan p24
• 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
• Sanders B Dec p24

Sociology of Science

• Jones R Jun p36
• Anderson P Aug p40

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
• 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
• 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
• Middleton K Dec p50

Students

• Jeandron M Mar p40

Superconductivity

• John Bardeen: an extraordinary physicist Hoddeson L Apr p22
• Iron rocks the high-T_c world May p4
• High-temperature superconducting wires power up Jun p8
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Goldston R Dec p39