Robert P Crease recalls the time when Palomar astronomers found themselves in a fight with locals
Read article: Astronomers versus activists: the battle over San Diego’s streetlights
Space agency admits that a new timeline of 2040 for the craft is “unacceptably too long”
Read article: NASA demands new designs for cost-hit Mars Sample Return mission
The Electron-Ion Collider will be built at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island, New York
Read article: US Electron-Ion Collider hits construction milestone
The NSF has been told to choose between the Giant Magellan Telescope and the Thirty Meter Telescope as a next-generation ground-based observatory
Read article: Battle for the skies: US insists GMT and TMT telescopes must vie for funding
Space will hold the particle detector modules for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
Read article: Excavation of huge caverns complete for the US Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
CERN, Fermilab and China’s IHEP all investing in applied quantum research
Read article: CERN, Fermilab and DESY: how big-science labs are chasing the quantum dream
Estimated to cost €1.5bn, LISA is expected to launch in 2035
Read article: European Space Agency gives construction go-ahead for LISA gravitational-wave mission
The director of the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on why effective stewardship is essential for long-term research success
Read article: Mike Witherell: seeking big impact from big science
The application will be considered at CERN’s next council session in mid-December
Read article: Ireland set to join the CERN particle-physics lab
An analysis concludes that the US-based facility would, if built, have the lowest overall carbon footprint in terms of physics output
Read article: Cool Copper Collider most environmentally friendly among Higgs factory designs, finds study
