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Heavy ions split US and Europe
More than 1000 nuclear physicists are striving to avoid a split in the community over the next generation of heavy-ion experiments
India invests in fast-breeder reactor
The money will go on technology development and testing, materials science research, studies on the reprocessing of fast-breeder fuel, site investigations and preliminary building work
Particle factory opens in Italy
The first of a new generation of meson factories was officially inaugurated in Italy at the end of September
Australian physicists fight cuts in university budgets
Like their colleagues in many other countries, Australian physicists are in the midst of a funding crisis. Peter Pockley reports on their attempts to fight back
Labour disappoints
The Labour government in the UK has certainly moved quickly since it was swept into power at the start of May. At first it was window-dressing – “call me Tony” the new prime minister Tony Blair told the first meeting of the new cabinet. But there has been substance too: Scotland and Wales have already […]
Laser highlights
The many achievements and uses of the electron have been widely celebrated this year. Photonics has not yet had the impact of electronics, although the interdisciplinary subject of optoelectronics underpins the whole communications industry. For a particle with no mass and no charge, however, the photon has certainly made its presence felt, as highlighted by […]
Read article: Canadian physicists work hard to defend their subject
Canadian physicists work hard to defend their subject
Canada is strong in many areas of physics and astronomy but, as Peter Gwynne found out, the challenge is to convince the government of that
Off the beaten track
Point your Web browser at http://www.agacooker.com/disc.html and you will learn how Gustav Dalen, the Swedish inventor who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1912, invented the Aga cooker to release his wife from some of the drudgery of cooking. Dalen only realized that his wife was “virtually enslaved” in the kitchen after he was […]
New horizons for R&D
The globalization of industrial research and development is now a fact of life. R&D was once a corporate function, performed on a single site near a company’s headquarters. But now the increasingly global nature of the markets for high-tech products, combined with ever shorter product cycles, requires goods to be manufactured all over the world […]
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