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, […]
Four physicists are vying to become the next director general of CERN, the European particle physics laboratory
Spending on research will rise next year, but major changes are afoot
Mercury manometers, out-of-date computers and pressure gauges calibrated in pounds per square inch.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 […]
Alcatel Alsthom and Dassault have become strategic partners in Thomson CSF
A review panel in the US has called for extra funding for synchrotron radiation sources
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 […]
“Evolution not revolution” was the motto as we set about redesigning Physics World earlier this year. After nine years with the same design we felt that a new look was long overdue – it is hard to think of another science magazine that has not been redesigned at least once during this period. Moreover, the […]
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Steve Chu, and Bill Phillips have won the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics
Physicists in the UK reacted with anger last month when they heard that two of their most important sources of funding would be cut
