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UK to pull out of Gemini Observatory

Nov 19, 2009 2 comments

Funding is 'almost certain' to stop after 2012

APS rejects plea to alter stance on climate change

Nov 11, 2009 63 comments

American Physical Society maintains view that human activities are causing global warming

Vitaly Ginzburg: 1916–2009

Nov 9, 2009 3 comments

Eminent Nobel-prize-winning Russian theorist dies on 8 November aged 93

Dark-matter paper raises questions over data sharing

Oct 29, 2009 25 comments

Is it unfair that NASA data are immediately made available to all?

In depth

Elspeth Drayson: life in the fast lane

Nov 11, 2009 1 comment

Elspeth Drayson, co-owner of motor-racing team Drayson Racing, talks about her route from physics to the pit-lane

Vitaly Ginzburg: a life in physics

Nov 3, 2009 9 comments

Vitaly Ginzburg – one of the most prominent Russian theoretical physicists of the 20th century – talks exclusively about his achievements in physics, his distrust of the church's growing role in Russian society and how the hydrogen bomb saved his life.