1. Editorial

   • N. Mukunda

   Departments Pages: 1 - 2

2. On parallel computing — Indian trends

   • U. N. Sinha

   Departments Pages: 2 - 5

3. Great experiments in physics

   • Amit Roy

   Series Article Pages: 8 - 17

4. The Archimedes principle and Gauss’s divergence theorem

   • Subhashis Nag

   General Article Pages: 18 - 29

5. Gender in plants

   • Renee M. Borges

   General Article Pages: 30 - 39

6. Web search engines

   • T. B. Rajashekar

   General Article Pages: 40 - 53

7. Supercomputers today

   • V. Rajaraman

   General Article Pages: 54 - 68

8. Scientific “Laws”, “Hypotheses” and “Theories”

   • J. R. Lakshmana Rao

   General Article Pages: 69 - 74

9. There is much more to Mendeleev’s periodic table than meets the eye

   • S. Vatsala

   General Article Pages: 75 - 81

10. Molecule of the month

    • H. Surya Prakash Rao

    Feature Article Pages: 82 - 86

11. ‘Puzzling Rectangles revisited’

    • C. R. Pranesachar

    Departments Pages: 87 - 88

12. Book review

    • N. Mukunda
    • S. Mahadevan
    • D. R. Choudhari

    BookReview Pages: 89 - 95

13. Acknowledgements

    Acknowledgments Pages: 95 - 95

14. Nobel Prizes — 1998

    Departments Pages: 96 - 96