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New jobs statistics make interesting reading for graduating physicists
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 […]
Chile has found the funds to remain part of the $184m Gemini partnership
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 […]
The US government breaks the boundaries between its civilian and military nuclear programmes
The Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn and one of its moons, Titan, lifts off
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