Print edition - index 2009

Accelerators/acceleration mechanisms

• Accelerating into the future Murray C May p16
• Japan accelerates ahead Banks M Aug p11
• Synchrotron shrunk to size of a lab Nov p4

Acoustics

• Device developed to reverse the Doppler effect Mar p5
• Black-hole analogue traps sound Jul p4

American Physical Society

• APS rejects shift on climate change Dec p6

Applications

• Fishing for energy Jan p5
• Oil pipes and arteries Sarran C Jan p21
• Nanowires stick to chips Feb p5
• Karalis A Feb p22
• Seeking a biosensor powered by vibrations Apr p5
• Bubbles burst for hospital cleanliness May p5
• Wireless worries Muller H; Scott S; Nielsen H, Allen J; Stancey G; Taylor S May p20
• Clothes that can see Aug p5
• Singing oven SCOREs in the developing world Sep p5
• Birds inspire new ultra-strong fastener Oct p5
• Deep-sea neutrinos Nov p5
• Peacock colours join the fight against forgery Nov p5

Art and science

• New initiative links scientists and entertainers Jan p11
• Crease R P Jan p34
• Last tango at Fermilab Jan p37
• When Eddington met Einstein Jan p37
• Science is not always a BLAST Jan p37
• Hidden sketches by Leonardo da Vinci revealed Feb p7
• Art and science Feb p15
• Underneath the surface Cofield C Feb p32
• Young C Feb p42
• Hanks for the memory Mar p3
• Peter Higgs appears on canvas Apr p7
• Art meets science Khandekar N Apr p20
• Surely you're joking, Mr Duchamp! Crease R P Dec p28

Astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology

• Dark matter in the ATIC Jan p4
• Cosmologists puzzle over mystery in the cosmos Jan p5
• Asia joins forces in radio astronomy Jan p9
• Europe unveils 20-year road map Jan p9
• Atlantic observatory starts up Jan p11
• Cartright E and Banks M Jan p12
• Shock and awe Bourne N Jan
• Simulation takes the limit off star formation Feb p5
• China to build giant radio telescope Feb p7
• Jaffe A Feb p36
• New light on the farside of the Moon Mar p5
• Detecting new Earths Schirber M Mar p8
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey tops astronomy citation list Mar p10
• Who's Galileo? Mar p11
• A year of astronomy Dench P; Htoon S Mar p17
• FAST success Duffy A Mar p17
• In Galileo's footsteps Mar p21
• Cesarsky C, Rees M, de Zeeuw T, Huchra J, Fabian A, Jae Park S Mar p22
• Boss A Mar p26
• Williamson M Mar p33
• Spudis P D Mar p40
• Sites for sore eyes Crease R P Mar p46
• Finocchiaro M A Mar p54
• Chicarro A Mar p58
• Mar p59
• Ancient astronomy revealed Steele J Mar p60
• Telescopes on parade Mar p62
• Scientific sleuthing Mar p62
• For all eyes only Mar p62
• Sky guide Mar p62
• Mason E Mar p64
• Clutching at dark straws Oliver K Mar p80
• Still a planet Apr p3
• Mapping the cosmos Clery D Apr p8
• Cosmic alternatives? Gregory R Apr p40
• Telescope hunts for cosmic explosions May p7
• Clover and out for UK telescope May p7
• Giant array faces financial and political challenges May p8
• Canada stamps its mark on the IYA May p10
• Judging Galileo Hutchinson I; Brandon D; Ferguson I May p21
• In the dark Bell M; Pointon T May p23
• Smolin L Jun p21
• Quirrenbach A Jun p40
• Poor old Pluto Jun p42
• The handbag has landed Jul p3
• Calling the space 'tweedia' Jul p3
• Who needs the lunar breakdown services? Jul p3
• New light on axions Jul p4
• China opens giant celestial scanner Jul p7
• Canadian neutrino lab branches out Jul p9
• Deflecting another Tungunska Williamson M Jul p11
• Italian magic Varaschin A Jul p21
• Susskind L Jul p42
• Baez J Aug p22
• Spain opens world's largest telescope Sep p9
• Giant facilities edge closer to reality Sep p9
• Voyager heads for interstellar space Corfield R Sep p11
• Unsolved mysteries of the universe Clegg B Sep p40
• Astronomy dominates Sep p41
• All hail the telescope Sep p41
• Galactic tussle will engulf Milky Way Oct p5
• Galactic-scale observatory planned Oct p6
• Telescope for a digital age Cartlidge E Oct p12
• New labs boost Australian array bid Oct p13
• Astrophotography issue Fedida S Oct p16
• Snapshots of UK astronomy Oct p49
• ALMA rises high Nov p11
• Meyer M R Nov p26
• Binary systems share star dust Dec p5
• Physicists call for focus on dark energy Dec p9
• China and Germany collaborate in astronomy Dec p9
• UK set to pull out of Gemini Dec p9
• Dark skies and light pollution: the end of IYA2009 Dec p11
• What next for astronomy? Williams R Dec p19

Atomic and molecular physics

• Teleportation goes the distance Mar p4
• Joint mission planned for Jupiter Mar p11
• The strong-correlations puzzle Quintanilla J and Hooley C Jun p32
• Jacak B Sep p35

Australia

• Giant array faces financial and political challenges May p8
• Austria in U-turn over CERN pull-out Jun p7
• Australia boosts funding for R&D Jun p14
• New labs boost Australian array bid Oct p13
• Careers and people Dec p45

Awards and prizes

• Nobel for one, not all Wimbush S Jan p20
• Hawking receives top US award at White House Sep p10
• Row bubbles up over particle prize Sep p13
• Optics pioneers scoop Nobel prize Banks M Nov p6

Biophysics

• Bacteria could provide alternative energy supply Feb p5
• River dance enhances fertility Jun p5
• Double helix is an 'electric slide' for proteins Jul p5
• Diamond targets E. coli Jul p5
• Durrani M Jul p15
• Kornyshev A Jul p16
• Crease R P Jul p18
• Davies P Jul p24
• Do cells care about physics? Guck J Jul p31
• Postcards from the brain Wang S Jul p37
• Susskind L Jul p42
• DNA sifts nanotubes Aug p5
• Acoustic tweezers pinch living cells Oct p5
• Seeing inside living cells Dec p4

Books reviewed

• Lord Kelvin, revolutionary scientist Saxon D Jan p36
• Jaffe A Feb p36
• E=mc² in theory and in practice Friedlander M W Feb p38
• Putting ATLAS on the map Feb p40
• Not forbidden fruit Feb p40
• Literary love Feb p40
• A universe of verse Feb p40
• Chicarro A Mar p58
• Ancient astronomy revealed Steele J Mar p60
• Telescopes on parade Mar p62
• Scientific sleuthing Mar p62
• For all eyes only Mar p62
• Sky guide Mar p62
• Enderby J Apr p38
• In their own words Apr p42
• One scientist's faith Apr p42
• A voice of dissent Apr p42
• Barnes C W May p42
• The story of the quantum O'Raifeartaigh C May p44
• The Hawkings in space May p45
• Hmm, that's funny... May p45
• Questions of attribution Steele J Jun p18
• Computing tomorrow's weather Jun p38
• Quirrenbach A Jun p40
• Poor old Pluto Jun p42
• All about antimatter Jun p42
• Big science in Oxfordshire Jun p42
• Beyond Einstein's gravity Amelino-Camelia G Jul p48
• Bad golfers of the world, unite Jul p50
• Physics tackles rugby Jul p50
• Avast ye landlubbers Jul p50
• Into the woods Jul p50
• Roser R Aug p36
• How Britannia beat the waves Bridgman R Aug p38
• Revenge of the mathematicians Aug p39
• Revisit your enthusiasm Aug p39
• Segrè G Sep p38
• Unsolved mysteries of the universe Clegg B Sep p40
• MacKay N, Edgar R Oct p46
• Falk D Oct p48
• An awkward genius Oct p49
• A call for communication Oct p49
• Snapshots of UK astronomy Oct p49
• The Nobel guide for spouses Nov p3
• Farmelo G Nov p38
• Hughes J Nov p40
• DeGroot G Nov p41
• A harmonious marriage Nov p42
• A hole at the centre Nov p42
• The faces of mathematics Nov p42
• Gingerich O Dec p35
• Nahin P J Dec p36
• Knight P Dec p38
• Harris M Dec p39
• Jones M Dec p40
• Dec p42

Canada

• Top scientists join Stephen Hawking at Perimeter Institute Mar p7
• Canada stamps its mark on the IYA May p10
• Isotope shortage triggers delays for patients Jul p8
• Canadian neutrino lab branches out Jul p9
• Canadian reactor delays add to agency's troubles Aug p8
• Canadian institute honours Hawking Nov p9
• Expanding the Perimeter Durrani M Dec p10
• Knight P Dec p38

Careers and employment

• New UK centres extend training for PhD students Jan p8
• Hay S and Kelk M Jan p38
• Jan p39
• Careers and people Jan p40
• Top minds sought in China Feb p11
• Young C Feb p42
• Feb p44
• Early-career scientists honoured Feb p44
• Winners of Liebniz Prize announced Feb p44
• Movers and shakers Feb p44
• Chalmers M Mar p14
• Mason E Mar p64
• Mar p65
• 'Lifetime award' for stellar research Mar p66
• US astronomers honoured Mar p66
• Pair share quantum prize Mar p66
• Women who are worth it Mar p66
• Another gong for graphene Mar p66
• Movers and shakers Mar p66
• Students and the LHC Privett G Apr p21
• Wurman J Apr p44
• 'Past' prize for astrophysicists Apr p45
• Science-writing stars Apr p45
• Movers and shakers Apr p45
• Apr p46
• Boost in minorities doing PhDs in the US May p10
• Y oh y study physics? Carter J, Dorrian G, Guymer G, Whittaker I; Olley R H May p22
• Broadwell I May p46
• May p48
• Nanopioneer honoured May p49
• Tune in to science May p49
• Movers and shakers May p49
• Are you a bright recruit? Jun p15
• Crease R P Jun p20
• Harris M Jun p44
• Jun p46
• Careers and people Jun p46
• Herold G Jul p52
• Careers and people Jul p53
• Jul p54
• Czerski H Aug p40
• Aug p42
• Blue-LED developer bags award Aug p42
• Swiss physicist wins first Bell Prize Aug p42
• Stellar-evolution pioneer honoured Aug p42
• Movers and shakers Aug p42
• Changes needed at European council Sep p10
• Hermanowicz J C Sep p42
• Sep p44
• Careers and people Sep p44
• Of time and tide Taylor S Oct p50
• Once a physicist: Kathryn Jackson Oct p52
• Simulation experts win Dirac Medal Oct p52
• Chinese scientists unhappy in careers Oct p52
• Movers and shakers Oct p52
• Nov p39
• What will you do next summer? Harris M Nov p44
• Careers and people Nov p45
• Once a physicist: Elspeth Drayson Nov p46
• Why not do both? Dec p44
• Careers and people Dec p45
• Once a physicist: Steve MacLean Dec p46

CERN

• CERN releases damage assessment Jan p11
• CERN seeks better communication Feb p11
• Putting ATLAS on the map Feb p40
• Chalmers M Mar p14
• CERN marks 20 years of the Web Apr p11
• Students and the LHC Privett G Apr p21
• Austria in U-turn over CERN pull-out Jun p7
• Beleaguered LHC gears up for restart Sep p7
• A new time machine Sep p41
• CERN director-general set his sights on linear collider Oct p7
• Al-Qaeda arrest casts shadow over the LHC Nov p7
• Nov p39
• Careers and people Nov p45
• A baguette in the works Dec p3
• Side benefits of the LHC Miller D J Dec p20

China

• China to build giant radio telescope Feb p7
• Top minds sought in China Feb p11
• FAST success Duffy A Mar p17
• China experiments with solar-thermal power production Apr p7
• Broadwell I May p46
• Chinese synchrotron opens up Jun p10
• China creates quantum network Jun p11
• China opens giant celestial scanner Jul p7
• Science road map unveiled Aug p10
• Cash shortfall spells trouble for Chinese space probe Oct p7
• Chinese scientists unhappy in careers Oct p52
• China forced to delay its maiden mission to Mars Nov p8
• US firm signs deal to build world's biggest solar plant Nov p8
• China and Germany collaborate in astronomy Dec p9

Climate change and the environment

• Satellites measure CO₂ levels Mar p11
• NASA rocket failure delays Glory mission Apr p6
• US pays price for $500m budget blunder Apr p10
• Wurman J Apr p44
• Carrot car Jun p3
• Sep p15
• Cox P and Jeffery H Sep p24
• Comments from physicsworld.com Oct p16
• Physics is just the start Oct p19
• Lord Browne Oct p20
• Romm J Oct p22
• Crabtree G, Sarrao J Oct p24
• Schmidt G Oct p33
• Climate criticisms Chubb J; Houlihane S Nov p20
• Comments from physicsworld.com Nov p20
• APS rejects shift on climate change Dec p6
• Climate debate goes on Riggs R; Jelbert G Dec p20
• Careers and people Dec p45

Computation and software

• Computing tomorrow's weather Jun p38
• Telescope for a digital age Cartlidge E Oct p12
• Schmidt G Oct p33
• Simulation experts win Dirac Medal Oct p52

Condensed matter

• Droplets get third lobe Jan p4
• Not forbidden fruit Feb p40
• Fermi surface unmasked Apr p4
• The rise and fall of a physics fraudster Reich E S May p24
• Towards the ultimate transistor Natelson D Jun p27
• The strong-correlations puzzle Quintanilla J and Hooley C Jun p32
• Sand drips like water Aug p5
• DNA sifts nanotubes Aug p5
• Beyond the wonder material Novoselov K Aug p27
• Magnetic 'monopoles' spotted in spin ices Oct p4

Denmark

• Boost for Swedish neutron bid May p10

Education

• What's your favourite planet? Edwards P Jan p48
• US teenagers still discouraged from science Feb p14
• Feb p37
• Europe's education experiment Banks M Jun p12
• Educating physicists Jun p15
• A bunch of Bologna Padman R Aug p19
• Griffiths D Sep p16
• Buying success, Saudi style Durrani M Nov p12
• Dreaming in the desert Durrani M Nov p15
• Magueijo J Dec p16

Energy

• Fishing for energy Jan p5
• Stanford sets up $100m energy institute Feb p9
• Solar power edges towards grid parity Feb p14
• Karalis A Feb p22
• Feb p44
• Italy seeks geothermal renaissance Mar p10
• Wireless worries Muller H; Scott S; Nielsen H, Allen J; Stancey G; Taylor S May p20
• Carrot car Jun p3
• Boost for carbon-capture facility Jul p10
• Fiddling on the roof Willcox N Aug p21
• Renewable energy boosted by US stimulus cash Sep p8
• Spain powers ahead with solar-thermal Oct p9
• Physicist advises UK on energy Oct p9
• In hot water, again Basden A; Watkins S Oct p17
• Physics is just the start Oct p19
• Lord Browne Oct p20
• Crabtree G, Sarrao J Oct p24
• Extreme energy makeover Grant P M Oct p37
• Does nanotechnology have the energy? Smith A, Tolfree D Oct p40
• MacKay N, Edgar R Oct p46
• Oct p47
• E is for energy Oct p64
• US firm signs deal to build world's biggest solar plant Nov p8
• A place in the Sun Luther J Nov p23
• 'High payoff' research receives $150m US cash boost Dec p6
• Japan plans new space station as a solar energy source Dec p8

Europe

• Carbon-capture and gamma-ray labs top Euro wish list Jan p6
• Sweden leads race to host European neutron facility Jun p8
• Europe's education experiment Banks M Jun p12
• Spanish researchers hit out at budget cuts Nov p10

European Space Agency

• Europe and US seek collaboration on missions to Mars Jan p7
• Joint mission planned for Jupiter Mar p11
• Mapping the cosmos Clery D Apr p8
• Europe unveils plans for UK space base Sep p7

European Union

• Bureaucracy blights funding in Europe Apr p9
• Le Bihan D Aug p16
• Changes needed at European council Sep p10

Facilities

• Carbon-capture and gamma-ray labs top Euro wish list Jan p6
• European synchotron secures €177m for upgrade Jan p7
• Rough Diamond Zetie K Jan p20
• Framework faults Vierkorn-Rudolph B Feb p19
• Sites for sore eyes Crease R P Mar p46
• Telescope hunts for cosmic explosions May p7
• Boost for Swedish neutron bid May p10
• Sweden leads race to host European neutron facility Jun p8
• Chinese synchrotron opens up Jun p10
• Big science in Oxfordshire Jun p42
• Japan accelerates ahead Banks M Aug p11
• Neutron scattering gets short-changed Skipper N Oct p15

Fluid dynamics

• Fish swish the oceans Sep p5

France

• Minister unveils new nanotech centres Jun p10
• Cesarsky chosen as nuclear adviser Jun p10

Fusion

• Banks M Feb p12
• Feb p37
• World's biggest laser powers up Mar p7
• New reactor to destroy nuclear waste Mar p9
• The last word on fusion Hellberg M A Mar p17
• COMPASS tokamak points towards ITER Apr p9
• Barnes C W May p42
• Cautious ITER chiefs opt for 2026 target Jul p7
• Still wishful on fusion Evans J; Barnes C W, Willms S Aug p20

Geophysics

• Cartwright J Jan
• Shock and awe Bourne N Jan
• Italy seeks geothermal renaissance Mar p10
• Planets under pressure Jeanloz R Apr p34
• Damaging effect: the impact of the L'Aquila earthquake Banks M May p13
• Baez J Aug p22
• New-found order in the valleys Sep p5

Germany

• Construction starts on €1bn X-ray free-electron laser Feb p10
• World's brightest synchrotron powers up May p8
• Germany unveils €18bn research plan Jul p10
• Clusters propel German universities Banks M Oct p10
• Germany in 'cash for PhDs' scandal Oct p11
• China and Germany collaborate in astronomy Dec p9
• ...but Germany confirms boost Dec p9
• Towards a new frontier Banks M Dec p12

Gravity and general relativity

• Castles in the air Perkowitz S Jan
• What goes up... Chambers R; de Podesta M; Fox M Feb p20
• New probe plots Earth's gravity field Mar p11
• Cosmic alternatives? Gregory R Apr p40
• That gravity thing Jewess M May p23
• Smolin L Jun p21
• Black-hole analogue traps sound Jul p4
• Beyond Einstein's gravity Amelino-Camelia G Jul p48
• Jacak B Sep p35
• Galactic-scale observatory planned Oct p6

History of physics

• Salam's independence Fraser G Jan p21
• Crease R P Jan p34
• Lord Kelvin, revolutionary scientist Saxon D Jan p36
• Crease R P Feb p18
• E=mc² in theory and in practice Friedlander M W Feb p38
• Literary love Feb p40
• Finocchiaro M A Mar p54
• Pure genius Apr p15
• German for physicists Stein B Apr p16
• Enderby J Apr p38
• The gambling scholar Ekert A May p36
• The story of the quantum O'Raifeartaigh C May p44
• Questions of attribution Steele J Jun p18
• 'Shockley park' stirs racism row Jul p9
• Durrani M Jul p15
• Sprechen Sie Physik? Lamden R J Jul p21
• Susskind L Jul p42
• A tale of two minds Fraser G Aug p32
• How Britannia beat the waves Bridgman R Aug p38
• Free audio archive brings legends to life Sep p10
• Remembering Salam Durrani S; Duff M; Adams B Sep p21
• Segrè G Sep p38
• Alan Turing recieves official apology Oct p9
• Falk D Oct p48
• An awkward genius Oct p49
• Farmelo G Nov p38
• Hughes J Nov p40
• DeGroot G Nov p41
• Fifty not out Dec p15
• Gingerich O Dec p35

India

• India targets bigger and faster grants Feb p14
• Unleashing science in India Bagla P Apr p12
• India analyses loss of lunar orbiter Oct p8
• India takes nuclear path to green Nov p10

Industry and innovation

• Solar power edges towards grid parity Feb p14
• Oxford Instruments honoured Apr p11
• Buchanan M Apr p22
• Qatar opens science park May p10
• Future nuclear plants could put pressure on helium supply May p11
• Swanning about Padman R; Herrod R Jun p18
• Diamond targets E. coli Jul p5
• Intel turns to photonics to extend Moore's law Hitz B Jul p12
• Jul p54
• Nortel sheds staff as bankruptcy bites Sep p8
• Of time and tide Taylor S Oct p50
• Companies hone in on radar-docking technology Nov p11
• Why not do both? Dec p44

International

• Asia joins forces in radio astronomy Jan p9
• Science comes to @Bahrain Jun p10
• Pakistan boosts science budget Aug p10
• ICTP appoints new director Nov p9
• Science rises in developing world Nov p11
• US and UK head university chart Nov p11
• Buying success, Saudi style Durrani M Nov p12
• Dreaming in the desert Durrani M Nov p15

Internet

• Jan p35
• Apr p41
• Join the Twitter bandwagon May p15
• Nielsen M May p30
• May p43
• Comments from physicsworld.com Aug p20
• Comments from physicsworld.com Sep p22
• Sep p39

Ireland

• Science offers hope for Irish economy May p10

Italy

• SuperB machine set to study antimatter Feb p11
• Italy seeks geothermal renaissance Mar p10
• Damaging effect: the impact of the L'Aquila earthquake Banks M May p13

Japan

• Japanese mega-lab nears completion Feb p11
• Neutrino beamline begins its journey from Japenese lab Jun p8
• Stage fright Aug p3
• Japan completes space lab Aug p9
• Japan accelerates ahead Banks M Aug p11
• Japan plans new space station as a solar energy source Dec p8
• Japan targets funding cuts... Dec p9

Lasers and optics

• World's biggest laser powers up Mar p7
• Maxwell's demon lives May p5
• Intel turns to photonics to extend Moore's law Hitz B Jul p12
• Back in a yoctosecond Nov p4

Lateral thoughts

• What's your favourite planet? Edwards P Jan p48
• What did sociologists ever do for us? Macdonald A Feb p52
• Clutching at dark straws Oliver K Mar p80
• The downside of technology O'Raifeartaigh C Apr p56
• Subs, satellites and dark matter Jenkins D May p56
• Weapons of mass instruction Lewney M Jun p52
• On the origin of the Darwin unit McGuigan K Jul p60
• Blame it on the butterfly Oliver K Aug p48
• Schrödinger’s dog Monteiro L H A Sep p52
• E is for energy Oct p64
• Trebino R Nov p56

Light sources, synchotrons and free-electron lasers

• European synchotron secures €177m for upgrade Jan p7
• Construction starts on €1bn X-ray free-electron laser Feb p10
• Brookhaven lab gets the nod for $900m light source Feb p10
• A new frontier awaits for US particle-physics lab Mar p12
• Light omission Brinkmann R, Weckert E Mar p17
• World's brightest synchrotron powers up May p8
• Crease R P Nov p19
• Towards a new frontier Banks M Dec p12

Mathematical and statistical physics

• Invisibility to cover entire spectrum Jan p4
• Shiftier constants Jones J Jan p21
• Flu fighters use the Web to track virus Apr p10
• Algorithm automates physical laws May p4
• Jun p39
• Into the woods Jul p50
• A tale of two minds Fraser G Aug p32
• Revenge of the mathematicians Aug p39
• A harmonious marriage Nov p42
• A hole at the centre Nov p42
• The faces of mathematics Nov p42
• Special relativity stands its ground Dec p4

Medical physics

• MRI gets new legs Apr p5
• Bubbles burst for hospital cleanliness May p5
• Speedy camera aids medical imaging Jun p5
• Isotope shortage triggers delays for patients Jul p8
• Seeing inside bones Aug p4
• Canadian reactor delays add to agency's troubles Aug p8
• Le Bihan D Aug p16
• Medical imaging at risk from European directive Keevil S Sep p21
• Caught CAT-napping Moloney S Sep p21
• Study warns of radiation risk in medical imaging Oct p13
• Alternative MRI limits Osepchuck J M, Petersen R C Oct p15
• Dropping an anvil on cancer cells Dec p5
• Fundamental physics enters the war on cancer Dec p7

Microscopy

• Fermi surface unmasked Apr p4
• Molecules revealed in their full glory Oct p4

Miscellaneous

• Hold the front page Jan p3
• And the survey says... Jan p3
• Strictly no dancing Jan p3
• Jan p15
• Jan p15
• Checklists, rules and creativity Glasmacher T Jan p16
• Crease R P Jan p19
• Memories that stick Dryburgh P Jan p21
• Collector's item Feb p3
• Einstein on the buses Feb p3
• Top job Feb p3
• Storm in a teacup Feb p3
• Poker face Feb p3
• Hands-on innovation Chubb J Feb p20
• Topological toys Little J Feb p20
• Yours anonymously Grozier J Feb p20
• More sticky memories Parker G Feb p21
• A modest proposal Albrow M Feb p21
• Comments from physicsworld.com Feb p21
• Traveller's tales Mar p3
• Calculators at the ready Mar p3
• Spooky Einstein Mar p3
• Cheers to Galileo Mar p3
• Comments from physicsworld.com Hamill H; de Podesta M; Weidig T; Evanson N; Thomas G Mar p18
• Imagine all the units Jones C Mar p18
• Off to the pub Young H Mar p18
• Quiz results Mar p18
• In stitches Apr p3
• Flat-packed living Apr p3
• A year in the making Apr p3
• Backing black swans Apr p15
• German for physicists Stein B Apr p16
• Comments from physicsworld.com Apr p20
• Unitary disagreements Grozier J; Leyshon G Apr p21
• April fools May p3
• Comments from physicsworld.com May p22
• Unitary own goals Maxted K May p23
• Safe for safety? Jun p3
• Calling all pizza tossers Jun p3
• Shocking new twist on Rodin's "The Thinker" Jun p11
• Boundaries of science Davies G Jun p18
• Physics has talent Jul p3
• Game simulates destruction according to the laws of physics Jul p13
• Twinkle, twinkle Pye D, Crundwell R Jul p21
• Unusual units Paix D Jul p21
• Rap riposte Sep p3
• An amazing tribute Sep p3
• Crease R P Sep p19
• Language lore Marks J M Sep p23
• Last call for units Randall S; Rosen R; Jones C; Bean L W; Lane F Sep p23
• Bolt out of the blue Oct p3
• Space, not-so-rockin Oct p3
• Shock decision Nov p3
• No laughing matter Nov p3
• Tackling trickling teapots Dec p3
• Rich list Dec p3
• The Starkey effect Dec p3
• Physics books crossword Dec p41
• Quiz of the year 2009 Dec p52

Nanotechnology

• Repulsive Casimir effect captured Feb p4
• Bacteria could provide alternative energy supply Feb p5
• Nanowires stick to chips Feb p5
• The rise and fall of a physics fraudster Reich E S May p24
• The world's smallest box Jun p5
• Minister unveils new nanotech centres Jun p10
• The flaw in Planck's law Sep p4
• Portugal opens novel nanotech lab Sep p10
• Scientists welcome world's 'quietest' building Oct p6
• Does nanotechnology have the energy? Smith A, Tolfree D Oct p40
• Green shoots Nov p3
• Nano-equation unveiled Dec p5

Nuclear physics

• Rare-isotope facility goes to Michigan Jan p6
• Checklists, rules and creativity Glasmacher T Jan p16
• Nucleus does the double Jun p4
• The map and trap rap Aug p3
• The Copernicium revolution Aug p9

Nuclear power

• Hay S and Kelk M Jan p38
• New reactor to destroy nuclear waste Mar p9
• Sweden seeks U-turn on nuclear power Mar p9
• US nuclear repository in jeopardy Apr p6
• Future nuclear plants could put pressure on helium supply May p11
• Domeward bound Jun p10
• Sweden picks site for waste repository Jul p8
• Bang goes the waste Aug p3
• Extension for Spanish reactor fails to satisfy operator Aug p8
• India takes nuclear path to green Nov p10

Nuclear weapons

• Drell S Feb p16
• Nuclear politics Ranson J Apr p20
• Hughes J Nov p40
• DeGroot G Nov p41

Obituaries

• Aage Niels Bohr: 1922–2009 Oct p9
• Vitaly Ginzburg: 1916–2009 Dec p8

Oceanography

• Aug p42
• Fish swish the oceans Sep p5
• Of time and tide Taylor S Oct p50

Optics

• Light mystery solved? Feb p4
• Anti-reflective films look to moth eyes Mar p5
• Curved light bends the rules May p5
• Optical cloaks edge closer Jun p4
• Do cells care about physics? Guck J Jul p31
• Optics pioneers scoop Nobel prize Banks M Nov p6

Particle physics

• SuperB machine set to study antimatter Feb p11
• Chameleons weigh in Mar p4
• A new frontier awaits for US particle-physics lab Mar p12
• Top result for two Tevatron teams Apr p4
• Peter Higgs appears on canvas Apr p7
• Top toy May p3
• CP violation estimated May p4
• US neutrino experiment gets under way Jun p7
• Neutrino beamline begins its journey from Japenese lab Jun p8
• New light on axions Jul p4
• Canadian neutrino lab branches out Jul p9
• Who's new at the Zoo? Aug p3
• Japan accelerates ahead Banks M Aug p11
• A tale of two minds Fraser G Aug p32
• Roser R Aug p36
• The neutrino hunter Nishikawa K and Banks M Sep p12
• Row bubbles up over particle prize Sep p13
• Jacak B Sep p35
• Puzzling physics Sep p41
• Magnetic 'monopoles' spotted in spin ices Oct p4
• CERN director-general set his sights on linear collider Oct p7
• Deep-sea neutrinos Nov p5
• Al-Qaeda arrest casts shadow over the LHC Nov p7
• Nov p39
• Race for the Higgs hots up as Tevatron seeks extension Dec p7
• Orzel C Dec p23
• Careers and people Dec p45

Philosophy of science

• Out of time Bevan J Aug p19
• Time, the multiverse and belief Pierpont E; Donegan D P; Jeynes C Oct p15

Physics and finance

• The (unfortunate) complexity of the economy Bouchaud J-P Apr p28
• Observing the economy Rosenbaum S Jul p21
• Bubble trouble Oct p3

Physics and religion

• In their own words Apr p42
• One scientist's faith Apr p42
• A voice of dissent Apr p42
• The Pope's scientists Cartlidge E May p12
• Judging Galileo Hutchinson I; Brandon D; Ferguson I May p21
• Crease R P Aug p18
• Time, the multiverse and belief Pierpont E; Donegan D P; Jeynes C Oct p15
• The role of religion Edmond I Nov p20

Physics and sport

• Canoe do physics? Grove S Apr p21
• Spot kick May p3
• Bad golfers of the world, unite Jul p50
• Physics tackles rugby Jul p50
• Avast ye landlubbers Jul p50

Plasma physics

• Curved light bends the rules May p5
• Jacak B Sep p35

Publishing

• Elsevier challenged over journal operations Banks M Jan p10
• Debating open access and arXiv Prentice J; Fairlie D Jan p20
• Funding open access Sprouse G D, Zimmermann F Mar p17
• Mar p59
• Nielsen M May p30
• Tweet your preprints Jun p3
• Calling the space 'tweedia' Jul p3
• Fledgling site challenges arXiv server Aug p9
• Comments from physicsworld.com Aug p20
• Focused papers get more citations Sep p10
• Comments from physicsworld.com Sep p22
• Trebino R Nov p56

Publishing and public understanding

• Sloan Digital Sky Survey tops astronomy citation list Mar p10
• Crease R P Apr p18
• Aug p37
• Czerski H Aug p40
• Careers and people Nov p45

Quantum physics

• Repulsive Casimir effect captured Feb p4
• The race to build a quantum computer Bacon D Feb p26
• Teleportation goes the distance Mar p4
• An eye on entanglement Apr p5
• The gambling scholar Ekert A May p36
• The story of the quantum O'Raifeartaigh C May p44
• China creates quantum network Jun p11
• Davies P Jul p24
• Feynman's 'quantum walk' observed Aug p4
• Stepping up to quantum computing Sep p4
• Less reality, more security Ekert A Sep p28
• Jacak B Sep p35
• Segrè G Sep p38
• Beyond the quantum Valentini A Nov p32
• Fifty not out Dec p15
• Orzel C Dec p23

Research conduct and ethics

• Physicist appeals against security revoke Jan p11
• Physicist accused of misappropriating NASA funds Apr p11
• Buchanan M Apr p22
• Physics and fraud May p15
• The rise and fall of a physics fraudster Reich E S May p24
• Swanning about Padman R; Herrod R Jun p18
• Reflections on the Schön affair Brandon D; Santic B Jul p19
• Fraud, misinformation and the open culture Pointon T Aug p20
• Germany in 'cash for PhDs' scandal Oct p11
• Comments from physicsworld.com Dec p21

Russia

• Russia plans new generation of lunar spacecraft May p9
• Russian expats seek research reforms Nov p10
• Vitaly Ginzburg: 1916–2009 Dec p8

Science and society

• Physicist bags Templeton prize Apr p9
• Crease R P Apr p18
• Crease R P May p19
• Snowed under: 50 years of the 'two cultures' Storey O; Johnston R; Bacon M Jul p19
• Public praise for science Aug p9
• Romm J Oct p22
• A call for communication Oct p49

Science policy

• Lord Browne Oct p20
• Schmidt G Oct p33

Semiconductors and electronics

• Towards the ultimate transistor Natelson D Jun p27
• Clothes that can see Aug p5
• Beyond the wonder material Novoselov K Aug p27

South Africa

• Giant array faces financial and political challenges May p8

Space science and the solar system

• Lost baggage Jan p3
• Extreme climate change Jan p3
• Europe and US seek collaboration on missions to Mars Jan p7
• Detecting new Earths Schirber M Mar p8
• New probe plots Earth's gravity field Mar p11
• Williamson M Mar p33
• Spudis P D Mar p40
• NASA rocket failure delays Glory mission Apr p6
• NASA missions: late and expensive Apr p11
• Finland publishes space strategy Apr p11
• China outlines lunar programme Apr p11
• Planets under pressure Jeanloz R Apr p34
• Toilet troubles May p3
• US seeks to lift export ban on satellite technology May p9
• Russia plans new generation of lunar spacecraft May p9
• NASA maps the way for lunar return Banks M May p14
• Astronauts give Hubble a new lease of life Jun p9
• New NASA boss nominated Jun p9
• Who needs the lunar breakdown services? Jul p3
• Telescope rises to the Sun Jul p10
• Japan completes space lab Aug p9
• Taik no chances Sep p3
• Launch your own space kit Sep p3
• Europe unveils plans for UK space base Sep p7
• Voyager heads for interstellar space Corfield R Sep p11
• Wood you believe it? Oct p3
• Cash shortfall spells trouble for Chinese space probe Oct p7
• Panel slams NASA's lunar vision Oct p8
• India analyses loss of lunar orbiter Oct p8
• China forced to delay its maiden mission to Mars Nov p8
• Companies hone in on radar-docking technology Nov p11
• Clements D, Crawford I Nov p16
• Japan plans new space station as a solar energy source Dec p8
• Once a physicist: Steve MacLean Dec p46

Students

• What will you do next summer? Harris M Nov p44

Superconductivity

• The strong-correlations puzzle Quintanilla J and Hooley C Jun p32
• Extreme energy makeover Grant P M Oct p37
• Cooper pairs do the splits Nov p5

Sweden

• Sweden seeks U-turn on nuclear power Mar p9
• Boost for Swedish neutron bid May p10
• Sweden leads race to host European neutron facility Jun p8
• Sweden picks site for waste repository Jul p8
• Sweden bags neutron source Jul p10

UK

• Top physics departments tumble in new RAE review Jan p8
• New UK centres extend training for PhD students Jan p8
• RAE wranglings provoke debate Haigh J, Bradley D, Knight P; McGrath R Feb p19
• The ratings game Braben D W Apr p20
• Clover and out for UK telescope May p7
• The economic-impact fallacy Moriarty P Jun p16
• UK physics hit by fresh funding cuts Aug p7
• Universities give record level of support to the UK economy Aug p7
• Braced for bad times Durrani M Aug p15
• Supporting research in a recession Allport P Aug p19
• How Britannia beat the waves Bridgman R Aug p38
• Europe unveils plans for UK space base Sep p7
• Physicist advises UK on energy Oct p9
• String theorist takes over as Lucasian professor Nov p9
• UK set to pull out of Gemini Dec p9

US

• Rare-isotope facility goes to Michigan Jan p6
• Obama chooses Chu as energy boss Jan p11
• Obama signals fresh approach to science Gwynne P Feb p8
• Stanford sets up $100m energy institute Feb p9
• Brookhaven lab gets the nod for $900m light source Feb p10
• US neutron source wins upgrade Feb p11
• Science at centre stage Feb p15
• World's biggest laser powers up Mar p7
• A new frontier awaits for US particle-physics lab Mar p12
• Physical science receives stimulus boost Mar p13
• US nuclear repository in jeopardy Apr p6
• US pays price for $500m budget blunder Apr p10
• US seeks to lift export ban on satellite technology May p9
• Physicist nominated for top job at Department of Energy May p11
• US neutrino experiment gets under way Jun p7
• Obama commits to science spending Jun p9
• Physicist sentenced for export violation Aug p10
• Renewable energy boosted by US stimulus cash Sep p8
• Panel slams NASA's lunar vision Oct p8
• High-risk energy plans yield low rewards Oct p9
• US firms leave business lobby group Nov p11
• 'High payoff' research receives $150m US cash boost Dec p6
• Race for the Higgs hots up as Tevatron seeks extension Dec p7

Women in physics

• Women beat men to faculty positions Jul p10
• Careers and people Nov p45