Read article: Green light for South African radio telescope
The Hydrogen Intensity and Real Time Analysis Experiment will study dark energy and fast radio bursts when fully operational in 2020
Read article: Call made for Germany’s Helmholtz Association to boost diversity
An evaluation of the association’s 18 research centres has found that only 19% of full professorships are held by women
Read article: NASA launches Parker Solar Probe mission to ‘touch’ the Sun
Craft will fly seven times closer to the Sun’s surface than any previous mission
Read article: NASA must reassess its Mars programme – or future missions could fail, report warns
US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine says that the loss of ageing infrastructure orbiting Mars could threaten future missions
Read article: Action to tackle climate change splits US voters along party lines
Both Republican and Democrats agree that tackling carbon-dioxide emissions would reduce climate change but disagree over how to do it
Read article: India cracks down on ‘predatory publishers’ following international investigation
Action taken after number of journals run by such publishers triples since 2013
Read article: IBA launches SMARTSCAN beam commissioning system
IBA's SMARTSCAN system guides the user through linac commissioning and automates repetitive tasks
Read article: US targets electron-ion collider to stay top in nuclear physics
Report by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine claims facility would maintain US leadership in nuclear physics
Read article: Co-ordinated action required to boost ‘open-science’ initiatives
Cultural barriers and economic issues still remain despite recent progress
Read article: Nobel laureate Burton Richter dies at 87
Particle physicist co-discovered the J/psi particle
