Read article: Archaeology turns to superconductivity
Archaeology turns to superconductivity
The magnetic properties of lead can be used to date archaeological artefacts
Read article: Archaeology turns to superconductivity
Innovations boost disabled literacy
Physicists have developed tools to help disabled people to write and blind people to read
Lasers propel paper aeroplanes
‘Ablation’ technique could be scaled up to make lightweight aircraft
Ion strings make brilliant beams
Preventing collisions is the key to super-stable ion beams
Hälg prize rewards neutron scattering in Europe
Institute Laue Langevin physicist bags the biannual prize
DIAMOND boss appointed
Director of the German synchrotron lab takes the helm at the new UK facility
Read article: Carbon clock could show the wrong time
Carbon clock could show the wrong time
Ancient stalagmites suggest that carbon dating could be inaccurate
Read article: Linear collider race gets serious
Linear collider race gets serious
Competition hots up for the world's next major accelerator
SOLEIL synchrotron for Saclay
The intense X-rays from SOLEIL will be used for a range of experiments in physics, chemistry and biology. The machine is expected to come on-line in 2005. According to Schwartzenberg, the French gover...
First evidence for the Brain Drain
Sharp Pierson and Cotgreave of the Save British Science Society analysed the publishing records of 252 scientists who gained their doctoral degrees in the UK. They compared the quality of the scientis...
