US science hit by staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences
Read article: US science in chaos as impact of Trump’s executive orders sinks in
A failure to support physics and physics-based industries could result in missed opportunities, says Burnett
Read article: IOP president Keith Burnett outlines a ‘pivotal’ year ahead for UK physics
The appointments of Michael Kratsios and Lynne Parker have been broadly welcomed by the scientific community
Read article: Trump nominates AI experts for key science positions
Early indications of the direction of Donald Trump’s second term as US president are already spooking some scientists
Read article: Scientists braced for Donald Trump’s second term as US president
About 325 people, representing 5% of the lab’s employees, will be affected
Read article: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab announces further staff layoffs
A committee of 15 experts from research and industry call for Framework Programme 10 to have a budget of at least €220bn
Read article: EU must double its science budget to remain competitive, warns report
The Baltic nation is now the 24th member state of the Geneva-based particle-physics lab
Read article: Estonia becomes first Baltic state to join CERN
A group of anonymous whistleblowers say that Fermilab is in 'crisis' and needs a management shake-up
Read article: Fermilab is ‘doomed’ without management overhaul claims whistleblower report
Keith Burnett discusses his career, the power of diversity and the value of universities to society
Read article: Keith Burnett: ‘I have this absolute commitment that the broader we are, the more powerful physics will be’
NASA says that increasing management costs means it cannot afford to the keep the “great observatory” operational
Read article: US astronomers slam cuts to the Chandra X-ray observatory
