Budget deficit threatens Japanese science
Scientists braced for severe cuts to the country’s research programme
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UK to pull out of Gemini Observatory
Funding is 'almost certain' to stop after 2012
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APS rejects plea to alter stance on climate change
American Physical Society maintains view that human activities are causing global warming
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Vitaly Ginzburg: 1916–2009
Eminent Nobel-prize-winning Russian theorist dies on 8 November aged 93
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Fundamental physics enters war on cancer
A dozen new US research centres receive cash to apply physics to oncology
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‘High-payoff’ energy research receives US cash boost
Department of Energy funds 37 projects worth a total of $150m
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Canadian theory institute honours Stephen Hawking
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics names new building after the Cambridge physicist
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Optics pioneers scoop Nobel prize
Trio share SEK10m prize for their work on fibre optics and charge-coupled devices
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Developing-world research hub unveils new director
Costa Rica-born physicist to head the International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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Saudi Arabia opens huge new university
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology inaugurated with $10bn endowment
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