Personalities News Nobel laureate Richard Taylor dies at 88 Physicist shared 1990 prize for finding experimental evidence for quarks Read article: Nobel laureate Richard Taylor dies at 88
Accelerators and detectors News Japan’s SuperKEKB set for first particle collisions Revamped accelerator will soon be smashing electrons and positrons together Read article: Japan’s SuperKEKB set for first particle collisions
Ethics News US National Science Foundation clamps down on misconduct Agency will now require every grantee organization to report cases of sexual harassment Read article: US National Science Foundation clamps down on misconduct
Personalities News American Institute of Physics names new CEO Physicist and science adviser Michael Moloney takes over in March Read article: American Institute of Physics names new CEO
Earth sciences News Expedition aimed to mitigate earthquake risk in New Zealand Seismic data from colliding Pacific and Australian plates could reveal fault slip secrets Read article: Expedition aimed to mitigate earthquake risk in New Zealand
Policy and funding News Small modular nuclear reactors are a crucial technology, says report UK think tank says reactors offer flexible way to decarbonize economy Read article: Small modular nuclear reactors are a crucial technology, says report
Telescopes and space missions News Space drones will give satellites a new lease of life Effective Space plans to launch fleet of spacecraft in 2020 Read article: Space drones will give satellites a new lease of life
Condensed matter News X-ray pioneers bag European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division Europhysics Prize Giacomo Ghiringhelli and Lucio Braicovich win for developing inelastic scattering technique Read article: X-ray pioneers bag European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division Europhysics Prize
Particle therapy News AAPM publishes guidelines for reporting Monte Carlo studies AAPM Task Group develops guidelines to improve reporting of Monte Carlo simulations in medical physics research
Quantum computing News Intel unveils 49-qubit superconducting chip Quantum processor named after Alaska’s Tangled Lakes Read article: Intel unveils 49-qubit superconducting chip