EC advisory body slims down
The European Commission scientific advisory committee has slimmed down and changed direction
Budget falls in Denmark
Danish research grants and funds for postdoc training in the natural sciences will be halved next year
New sites for Oxford Instruments
Oxford Instruments opened two new buildings last month
US science budget rises
There is good news for science in general and physics in particular in this year's US budget
CERN hustings
Four physicists are vying to become the next director general of CERN, the European particle physics laboratory
Funding rises in France
Spending on research will rise next year, but major changes are afoot
Japan thinks big on synchrotrons
The highest energy synchrotron radiation source in the world has officially opened
Euro defence giant born
Alcatel Alsthom and Dassault have become strategic partners in Thomson CSF
Laser-cooled Nobel prize
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Steve Chu, and Bill Phillips have won the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics
Funding cuts dismay physicists
Physicists in the UK reacted with anger last month when they heard that two of their most important sources of funding would be cut
