Particles and interactions Research update Nobel laureates petition Bush over funding shortfall Twenty top physicists call for over $500m in 'emergency' cash to plug poor 2008 US science budget
Telescopes and space missions Research update Report slams UK’s leading physics funding agency MPs call for major shake-up at the Science and Technology Facilities Council Read article: Report slams UK’s leading physics funding agency
Nuclear fusion Blog Cold Fusion as Policy Posterboy The March Meeting has everything, including a session on cold fusion. It is almost 20 years since Pons and Fleischmann told the world that they had seen nuclear fusion in what is essentially an electr...
Ultrafast science Research update Protons bring fusion into view New technique reveals complex magnetic fields Read article: Protons bring fusion into view
Particles and interactions Research update US physics suffers budget setbacks Fermilab hit hard as it lays-off 10% of staff Read article: US physics suffers budget setbacks
Nuclear fusion Research update UK physicist takes key fusion post Llewellyn Smith is appointed chair of ITER council Read article: UK physicist takes key fusion post
Nuclear fusion Opinion and reviews Dreaming of fusion A one-to-one with Didier Gambier Read article: Dreaming of fusion
Surfaces and interfaces Opinion and reviews French frustration Reforming France's science Read article: French frustration
Nuclear physics Research update A cool solution to waste disposal Physicists announce a new way of speeding up radioactive decay Read article: A cool solution to waste disposal