Read article: Going global: the world the Web has wrought
Going global: the world the Web has wrought
Michael Riordan reveals how physicists and programmers played important roles in shaping the current wave of globalization
Read article: Going global: the world the Web has wrought
Read article: Sirius shines a light on the future of Brazilian science
Sirius shines a light on the future of Brazilian science
Harry Westfahl Jr is the lab director of Sirius, a fourth-generation storage ring light source at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory
Read article: Major US and European labs join forces to tackle climate change
Major US and European labs join forces to tackle climate change
Top research centres announce they will co-ordinate climate-related research as well as share ways to reduce their carbon footprint
Read article: Why the UK should build its own X-ray free electron laser
Why the UK should build its own X-ray free electron laser
Physicists Adam Kirrander and Jon Marangos are backing a proposal to build the UK’s first X-ray free electron laser
Read article: Big science booms in China
Big science booms in China
Ling Xin takes us on a tour of four facilities that are in the building stages
Read article: New dawn for South African radio astronomy as major telescope nears completion
New dawn for South African radio astronomy as major telescope nears completion
Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array will observe large-scale structures during the early universe
Read article: Construction go-ahead for €2bn Square Kilometre Array
Construction go-ahead for €2bn Square Kilometre Array
Huge radio telescope will be complete by 2030 featuring hundreds of radio dishes and thousands of radio antennas in southern Africa and Australia
Read article: First results from UK tokamak offers a STEP towards commercial fusion
First results from UK tokamak offers a STEP towards commercial fusion
Findings from the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak experiment indicate a ten-fold reduction in exhaust heat load
Read article: Ethical hacking group worms its way into Fermilab
Ethical hacking group worms its way into Fermilab
The Sakura Samurai team discovered configuration data for the lab’s NoVa experiment and more than 4500 “tickets” for tracking internal projects
Read article: Crisis in a lockdown: how NIST coped with a radiation leak
Crisis in a lockdown: how NIST coped with a radiation leak
Robert P Crease describes how news of a radiation leak at a US neutron facility was handled in today’s online, networked and locked-down world
