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UK science risks relegation, warns Royal Society

Mar 9, 2010 1 comment

"Decades of slow economic decline" predicted unless investment in science increases

Earth's magnetic field older than we thought

Mar 9, 2010

But it offered little defence against a young, aggressive Sun

RHIC nets strange antimatter

Mar 5, 2010 12 comments

First antihypertriton detected at US lab

Superconductors could simulate the brain

Mar 5, 2010 3 comments

Josephson junctions would allow rapid simulation of brain functions

UK physicists welcome research council reforms

Mar 4, 2010 2 comments

Science minister Lord Drayson announces changes to the Science and Technology Facilities Council

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