Funding cuts dismay physicists
Physicists in the UK reacted with anger last month when they heard that two of their most important sources of funding would be cut
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Empire strikes back
The US Army Space and Strategic Defense Command has fired its Miracl laser at an American satellite orbiting 260 miles above the Earth. The powerful laser, an offshoot of the Strategic Defence Initiative of the 1980s, was fired twice from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The laser beam destroyed neither its target […]
Bench-top support
That was the conclusion drawn by John Enderby of Bristol University who gave a presentation on “Experimental physics in the UK: problems and promise” at the British Association‘s science festival in Leeds last month. Many of the practical discoveries made in physics come from small-scale physics labs. For example, semiconductors, lasers and holography, X-ray diffraction […]
Jobs for the boys
New jobs statistics make interesting reading for graduating physicists
Brookhaven bother
The US High Flux Beam Reactor is under attack again
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 […]
Chile retains role
Chile has found the funds to remain part of the $184m Gemini partnership
Axis row rolls on
An old debate on the universe was reborn this month
US Star Wars test fails
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Proliferation worries grow at US reactor
The US government breaks the boundaries between its civilian and military nuclear programmes
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