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
Read article: Construction go-ahead for €2bn Square Kilometre Array
Huge radio telescope will be complete by 2030 featuring hundreds of radio dishes and thousands of radio antennas in southern Africa and Australia
Read article: Nobel laureates call for ‘urgent’ action on the climate ahead of the G7 summit
A group of 126 Nobel laureates has released a statement claiming that time is running out to prevent irreversible changes to the climate
Read article: Researchers analyse carbon footprint of planned neutrino experiment
Team finds that the annual greenhouse-gas emissions from the Giant Array for Neutrino Detection will be similar to the production of 1000 cars
Read article: NASA selects two Venus missions for launch
VERITAS and DAVINCI+ will take-off between 2028 and 2030 to investigate Earth’s sister planet
Read article: Catherine Heymans appointed first female Astronomer Royal for Scotland
Astrophysicist becomes the first woman to hold top Scottish job since its foundation in 1834
Read article: First results from UK tokamak offers a STEP towards commercial fusion
Findings from the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak experiment indicate a ten-fold reduction in exhaust heat load
