By placing the beams at a slight angle to each other, they are able to create an interleaved set of dipole traps.

ECONOMIST: Quantum computers

Interleaved with over 150 woodcut illustrations, the volume is one of the first of its kind to have been done from observation.

ECONOMIST: The Duchess Anna Amalia library

The voters were angered by fear-mongering and disdain, as politicians interleaved warnings of economic collapse or even war with references to no voters as uninformed or ignorant.

ECONOMIST: The referendum in the Netherlands

These are small electromagnets interleaved at intervals along the track.

ECONOMIST: Maglev trains

The narrative of street fighting is interleaved with personal memories of a previous age: here the house of a beloved aunt, there the studio where she acted in a television drama.

ECONOMIST: Tahrir Square, one year on

By placing interleaved comb-like electrodes on the surface of lithium niobate, a material that is piezoelectric (and so expands or contracts as a current is passed through it), Dr Wixforth was able to fine-tune the waves to do his bidding.

ECONOMIST: Acoustic microfluidics

The memoir is interleaved with a sort of analytical chronology of the period, but time after time a controversial policy issue comes up and we read about the role that the Council of Economic Advisers played in determining what to do.

ECONOMIST: When economics meets politics, guess which one wins