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
Read article: Ethical hacking group worms its way into Fermilab
The Sakura Samurai team discovered configuration data for the lab’s NoVa experiment and more than 4500 “tickets” for tracking internal projects
Read article: China successfully lands Zhurong rover on Mars
China becomes the second country after the US to successfully land a spacecraft on the surface of the red planet
Read article: One step closer to real-time MR imaging in proton therapy
A research collaboration is building the world's first prototype proton therapy system that can track moving tumours with MRI in real time during treatment
Read article: 2020 was Europe’s hottest year on record, finds report
Two major reports paint a bleak picture of the climate ahead of a virtual summit of world leaders
