US science budget rises
There is good news for science in general and physics in particular in this year's US budget
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Flatter TV displays
The cathode ray tube may make a comeback in the TV display wars, with a new amorphic diamond film
Light up your heart
Pacemakers work by sending a electrical pulse from a pacemaker through a lead to endocardial tissue, a layer of tissue which is then simulated inside the heart. The lead passes into the heart through a vein. One of the difficulties with installing pacemakers, is deciding which vein to use, and how to cope with the […]
CERN hustings
Four physicists are vying to become the next director general of CERN, the European particle physics laboratory
Japan thinks big on synchrotrons
The highest energy synchrotron radiation source in the world has officially opened
JET sets fusion record
Fusion experiments at the Joint European Torus (JET) fusion project in Oxfordshire, UK, are more than halfway to breakeven – the point where the power produced by the reactor equals that supplied to it. But a decision on whether the experiments should continue after 1999 has yet to be taken. For the last six weeks, […]
Students suffer with old equipment
Mercury manometers, out-of-date computers and pressure gauges calibrated in pounds per square inch. These are some of the pieces of obsolete equipment that UK students are using in undergraduate laboratories, according to a report published at the end of September. The financial pressures of recent years mean that universities and colleges in England and Wales […]
Euro defence giant born
Alcatel Alsthom and Dassault have become strategic partners in Thomson CSF
Funding rises in France
Spending on research will rise next year, but major changes are afoot
Fusion energy: the agony, the ecstasy and alternatives
Fusion – the release of nuclear binding energy from light nuclei and its practical exploitation – has been a major world research discipline for the past four decades. It promises to be an energy resource capable of indefinitely sustaining humanity under all conceivable scenarios of population growth and energy demand. In fact, fusion is the […]
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