NASA criticized over its management of $3.3bn Dragonfly mission to Titan
Cost overruns and delays have hit the drone-like rotorcraft mission
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Read article: NASA criticized over its management of $3.3bn Dragonfly mission to Titan
Cosmic microwave background pioneer George Smoot dies aged 80
Smoot and John Mather discovered tiny temperature fluctuations in the CMB
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Quarter of UK physics departments face closure, finds IOP report
Survey of the heads of UK physics department finds most are expecting to drop courses
Read article: Quarter of UK physics departments face closure, finds IOP report
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
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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
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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: Errors in A-level physics papers could jeopardize student university admissions, Institute of Physics warns
Rainer Weiss: US gravitational-wave pioneer dies aged 92
Weiss was instrumental in the discovery of gravitational waves in 2015
Read article: Rainer Weiss: US gravitational-wave pioneer dies aged 92
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
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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...
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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: IOP president-elect Michele Dougherty named next Astronomer Royal
