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