Fear grips Iranian academics
Assassination of physicist Masoud Alimohammadi heightens tensions in Tehran
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UK physicists warn of brain drain over funding freeze
Programme cuts could lead to "irreparable damage" to the county’s reputation
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Africa launches continent-wide physics society
The African Physical Society will support researchers and students across the region
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Breakthrough of the year
NIST researchers demonstrate sustained quantum computing in trapped ions
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2009 in pictures
People and research that have helped shape the year in physics
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What’s in store in 2010?
From new data at the Large Hadron Collider to deep research budget cuts in the UK and Japan, 2010 could be both the best and worst of times
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UK physics hit by savage cuts
Funding council announces UK withdrawal from over 25 international projects
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NASA launches sky surveyor
WISE will search for cool stars and study the structure of nearby galaxies
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UK physicists prepare for “deep” budget cuts
Researchers express concern to the UK's science minister over funding council's budget deficit
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Budget deficit threatens Japanese science
Scientists braced for severe cuts to the country’s research programme
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