Telescopes and space missions News NASA hits back at millionaire in asteroid spat Nathan Myhrvold at loggerheads with astrophysicists over asteroid analysis Read article: NASA hits back at millionaire in asteroid spat
Policy and funding News UK physics faces EU choice Simon Perks looks at how physics could be affected by the UK's referendum this month on its membership of the European Union Read article: UK physics faces EU choice
Personalities News Jailed Iranian physicist freed temporarily after cancer treatment Omid Kokabee on medical parole after five years in prison Read article: Jailed Iranian physicist freed temporarily after cancer treatment
Personalities News Buckyball pioneer Harold Kroto dies at 76 Nobel-prize-winning chemist created ball-shaped molecules to better understand interstellar clouds Read article: Buckyball pioneer Harold Kroto dies at 76
Policy and funding News Consortium sets out to build European laser plasma accelerator EuPRAXIA aims to put compact electron accelerator on scientific facility road map Read article: Consortium sets out to build European laser plasma accelerator
Nuclear power News Laureates call for cut to highly enriched uranium 35 Nobel laureates say nuclear reactors should use low-enriched uranium Read article: Laureates call for cut to highly enriched uranium
Policy and funding News ‘Quantum manifesto’ for Europe calls for €1bn in funding Programme could unlock the potential of quantum technologies, say physicists Read article: ‘Quantum manifesto’ for Europe calls for €1bn in funding
Telescopes and space missions News Mission to Mars launches in search of signs of life The Trace Gas Orbiter will study the red planet's atmosphere and test landing technologies Read article: Mission to Mars launches in search of signs of life
Policy and funding News World’s deepest lab targets neutrinos Experiment at China Jinping Underground Laboratory would measure solar and geoneutrinos Read article: World’s deepest lab targets neutrinos
Policy and funding News Indian gravitational-wave observatory wins governmental approval LIGO-India will join global network of observatories, including those in the US, Germany, Italy and Japan Read article: Indian gravitational-wave observatory wins governmental approval
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