Major labs have shut their doors in response to the worldwide lockdown, but a few remain open and in some cases are carrying out critical work related to the COVID-19 pandemic
Read article: Critical research hit as COVID-19 forces physics labs to close
A meeting in Oxford discussed the past, present and future of large-scale facilities in physics
Read article: The 10 most important future big-science facilities in physics
Due to start by 2030, the Electron-Ion Collider will probe the strong nuclear force and the role of gluons in nucleons and nuclei
Read article: Brookhaven chosen to host major US nuclear physics facility
Compact devices would be far cheaper than existing technology
Read article: Europe draws up plans for plasma-based particle accelerators
Officials planning the giant radio telescope hope to plug the funding gap by attracting new countries to the project
Read article: Square Kilometre Array hit by €250m shortfall
Decision is set to be taken tomorrow on whether to postpone the completion of the high-luminosity upgrade until 2028
Read article: CERN expected to announce one-year delay to Large Hadron Collider upgrade
ELGAR would consist of two 32 km-long arms to detect gravitational waves via atom interferometry
Read article: European physicists propose huge underground gravitational-wave laboratory
The main component of the LUX-ZEPLIN dark-matter detector has lowered into the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota
Read article: US dark-matter detector heads underground
Price of the huge telescope rises by €100m with construction set for 2021
Read article: Square Kilometre Array hit with further cost hike and delay
Work has just begun on China’s first fourth-generation synchrotron-radiation source. Robert P Crease gets a sneak preview of what’s in store
Read article: China’s next big thing: a new fourth-generation synchrotron facility in Beijing
