Axis row rolls on
An old debate on the universe was reborn this month
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Chile retains role
Chile has found the funds to remain part of the $184m Gemini partnership
Fractional charge carriers discovered
Electric charge normally comes in an indivisible unit: the charge of an electron. Indeed, quarks were thought to be the only particles with fractional charge – and today they only exist in particles that have a integer charge. But last month, two groups of physicists revealed the first direct evidence that an electric current can […]
Mission to Saturn back on track
The Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn and one of its moons, Titan, lifts off
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
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