Read article: Astronomers discover ideal conditions for stargazing on the Tibetan Plateau
Site on Saishiteng Mountain near the town of Lenghu rivals that of existing astronomy meccas
Read article: Scientists with children suffer a ‘parenting penalty’ in their research
A survey of more than 11,000 researchers with children reveals that scientific output depends on their level of child-care responsibilities
Read article: Moon mission successfully retrieves lunar samples
Chang’e-5 has returned lunar material for the first time in 45 years to study the evolution history of our closest neighbour, as Ling Xin reports
Read article: National Ignition Facility heralds ‘significant step’ towards fusion break-even target
Lab announces it has achieved a yield of more than 1.3 MJ – about 70% of the energy that the laser pulse delivered to the sample
Read article: New non-COVID research projects plunge by a third since the start of the pandemic
COVID-19 pandemic beginning to show long-lasting impact on scientific research, says US study
Read article: Neutron-science pioneer John Enderby dies aged 90
British physicist was a staunch advocate of scholarly publishing
Read article: Japanese Nobel-prize-winning particle physicist Toshihide Maskawa dies aged 81
Maskawa shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on the mechanism of “broken symmetry” that led to the prediction of a new family of quarks.
Read article: Bullying and harassment rife in astronomy and geophysics, finds poll
Almost half of respondents reported being bullied or harassed at work in the previous two years
Read article: US Nobel-prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg dies aged 88
Giant of 20th-century physics was instrumental in formulating the Standard Model of particle physics in the 1960s
Read article: Space engineer takes over as head of the MIT Media Lab
Dava Newman, an expert in the human exploration of space, became the lab's director on 1 July
