The societies call on the US Congress to safeguard the integrity of the peer-review process
Read article: US scientific societies blast Trump administration’s plan to politicize grants
The Grace radiotherapy system delivers conventional X-ray radiation therapy to patients in the upright position
Read article: Leo Cancer Care launches first upright photon therapy system
Cost overruns and delays have hit the drone-like rotorcraft mission
Read article: NASA criticized over its management of $3.3bn Dragonfly mission to Titan
Smoot and John Mather discovered tiny temperature fluctuations in the CMB
Read article: Cosmic microwave background pioneer George Smoot dies aged 80
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
IMAP will also map the boundary of the heliosphere, a huge protective bubble in space created by the Sun
Read article: NASA launches IMAP mission to provide real-time space weather forecasts
Artificial intelligence could help sniff out questionable open-access publications that are more interested in profit than scientific integrity
Read article: Artificial intelligence could help detect ‘predatory’ journals
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
Weiss was instrumental in the discovery of gravitational waves in 2015
Read article: Rainer Weiss: US gravitational-wave pioneer dies aged 92
Study examined the publications of more than 12,000 academics across 15 disciplines
Read article: Tenured scientists in the US slow down and produce less impactful work, finds study
