Read article: NASA launches IMAP mission to provide real-time space weather forecasts
IMAP will also map the boundary of the heliosphere, a huge protective bubble in space created by the Sun
Read article: Artificial intelligence could help detect ‘predatory’ journals
Artificial intelligence could help sniff out questionable open-access publications that are more interested in profit than scientific integrity
Read article: Errors in A-level physics papers could jeopardize student university admissions, Institute of Physics warns
Concerns over physics students starting university expressed in letter from the IOP
Read article: Rainer Weiss: US gravitational-wave pioneer dies aged 92
Weiss was instrumental in the discovery of gravitational waves in 2015
Read article: Tenured scientists in the US slow down and produce less impactful work, finds study
Study examined the publications of more than 12,000 academics across 15 disciplines
Read article: NASA launches TRACERS mission to study Earth’s ‘magnetic shield’
NASA has successfully launched a mission to explore the interactions between the Sun’s and Earth’s magnetic fields. The Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRAC...
Read article: IOP president-elect Michele Dougherty named next Astronomer Royal
Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed Astronomer Royal in the post's 350-year history
Read article: Scientists decry ‘scientific injustice’ over lack of climate data in developing regions
Group says lives are being threatened by a shortage of information
Read article: UK ‘well positioned’ to exploit space manufacturing opportunities, says report
Report says companies see 'huge advantages' in making drugs, harvesting stem cells and growing crystals in space
Read article: Diversity in UK astronomy and geophysics declining, finds survey
Diversity in UK astronomy and geophysics has reduced in recent years, with the fields becoming more white
