Read article: CERN expected to announce one-year delay to Large Hadron Collider upgrade
Decision is set to be taken tomorrow on whether to postpone the completion of the high-luminosity upgrade until 2028
Read article: Committee urges Ireland to join CERN particle-physics lab
Report recommends Ireland becoming an associate member that would allow the country’s scientists to have access to formal training and become CERN staff members
Read article: European physicists propose huge underground gravitational-wave laboratory
ELGAR would consist of two 32 km-long arms to detect gravitational waves via atom interferometry
Read article: Fabiola Gianotti to remain CERN boss until 2025
The Italian particle physicist will now oversee the completion of the high-luminosity upgrade to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
Read article: Female chemists hit by ‘significant disadvantage’ when publishing their research
Report by the Royal Society of Chemistry finds that gender biases exist “at each step of the publishing profile”
Read article: UK research network to advance radiotherapy developments
A £56 million research network aims to transform the UK into a global hub for radiotherapy research
Read article: Student mentoring needs to be better recognized and rewarded, says report
Report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine sets out a series of actions to strengthen mentoring within US scientific disciplines
Read article: South African radio telescope design nears completion
Testing begins on two prototype dishes for the Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment
Read article: Transparent peer review trialled by IOP Publishing
Year-long trial will be held on three journals – JPhys Materials, Environmental Research Letters and Journal of Neural Engineering
Read article: Engines and imagers dominate awards for physics-based innovations
Biomedical imaging systems and novel engine components received top billing in the 2019 Institute of Physics Business Awards
