Mission to Saturn back on track
The Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn and one of its moons, Titan, lifts off
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Proliferation worries grow at US reactor
The US government breaks the boundaries between its civilian and military nuclear programmes
Superconductivity: New model goes on the block
Colin Humphreys, head of materials science at Cambridge University, disclosed his ideas at a symposium on the centenary of the discovery of the electron at Cambridge. He has submitted a paper based on his ideas to Nature. Superconducting materials lose all electrical resistance below a critical temperature; but for many years, this temperature was below […]
US Star Wars test fails
(Updated 13 Oct)
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 […]
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