Policy and funding News China forges ahead in global research China could soon overtake the UK in terms of research excellence Read article: China forges ahead in global research
Telescopes and space missions News Flash Physics: Starving black hole dims active galaxy, Australian and Chinese particle-physics labs come together, rapidly cooled freestanding graphene Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: Starving black hole dims active galaxy, Australian and Chinese particle-physics labs come together, rapidly cooled freestanding graphene
Policy and funding News US physicists anxious over Trump administration Huge uncertainty surrounds the new president's plans for science Read article: US physicists anxious over Trump administration
Ultrafast science News Flash Physics: Spotting supersolids, Perimeter Institute and South American Institute for Fundamental Research partner up, measuring photoionization in zeptoseconds Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: Spotting supersolids, Perimeter Institute and South American Institute for Fundamental Research partner up, measuring photoionization in zeptoseconds
Policy and funding News Trump election shock threatens US science Donald Trump's surprise presidential success offers bleak prospects for the US research community Read article: Trump election shock threatens US science
Telescopes and space missions News Flash Physics: NASA and FEMA conduct asteroid-impact exercises, tiny lasers for microscopy, NSF reviews its Arecibo and Green Bank funding Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: NASA and FEMA conduct asteroid-impact exercises, tiny lasers for microscopy, NSF reviews its Arecibo and Green Bank funding
Policy and funding News Scientific facilities hit by Brazilian budget woes Synchrotron facility and research reactor have not received 2016 funds Read article: Scientific facilities hit by Brazilian budget woes
Superconductivity News Flash Physics: A superconducting non-superconductor, best of Russian physics, NPL backs instrumentation Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: A superconducting non-superconductor, best of Russian physics, NPL backs instrumentation
Telescopes and space missions News Flash Physics: Thirty Meter Telescope could go to Spain, artificial muscles flex, light switches light Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: Thirty Meter Telescope could go to Spain, artificial muscles flex, light switches light
Semiconductors and electronics News Flash Physics: Designer magnets from 3D printers, creating silicon-germanium glass fibres, towards a space-based gravitational-wave observatory Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: Designer magnets from 3D printers, creating silicon-germanium glass fibres, towards a space-based gravitational-wave observatory