Read article: New Oak Ridge centre to boost US isotope production
New facility will produce a wide range of isotopes including those that can be used to make radioisotopes for medical applications
Read article: Work begins on ground station in South Africa to support NASA’s lunar programme
The new facility in the central Karoo region of the Western Cape will support human spaceflight missions to the Moon and possibly Mars
Read article: National Ignition Facility’s laser-fusion milestone ignites debate
After failing to reproduce last year’s record-breaking fusion-energy shot, scientists at the US National Ignition Facility have gone back to the drawing board
Read article: CERN’s proposed 100 km-circumference ‘Higgs factory’ has lower environmental impact than competing designs, finds study
Analysis finds that the Future Circular Collider is the most energy efficient of the planned future particle colliders
Read article: Lia Merminga: directing the future of Fermilab
Lia Merminga, director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the US, on accelerator science, the future of particle physics and being the first woman in her new role
Read article: Was the discovery of the Higgs boson the pinnacle for high-energy physics at CERN?
The past, present and future of high-energy physics come under the spotlight in the July 2022 issue of Physics World
Read article: South African robotic telescope to begin search for the afterglow of cosmic events
The BOOTES6 optical telescope will measure the brightness of transient sources when it starts up in mid-July
Read article: CERN’s Large Hadron Collider gears up for Run 3
Engineers will now begin increasing the luminosity before first collisions in June
Read article: China’s premier particle collider set for major upgrade
Scientists in China have begun a transformation of the Beijing Electron Positron Collider that could pave the way for a future Higgs factory
Read article: MANDELA nuclear-physics laboratories open in South Africa
The two new labs will be used to train students and develop novel nuclear-physics detector technology.
