Buckyball pioneer Harold Kroto dies at 76
Nobel-prize-winning chemist created ball-shaped molecules to better understand interstellar clouds
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Consortium sets out to build European laser plasma accelerator
EuPRAXIA aims to put compact electron accelerator on scientific facility road map
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Laureates call for cut to highly enriched uranium
35 Nobel laureates say nuclear reactors should use low-enriched uranium
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‘Quantum manifesto’ for Europe calls for €1bn in funding
Programme could unlock the potential of quantum technologies, say physicists
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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
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World’s deepest lab targets neutrinos
Experiment at China Jinping Underground Laboratory would measure solar and geoneutrinos
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Indian gravitational-wave observatory wins governmental approval
LIGO-India will join global network of observatories, including those in the US, Germany, Italy and Japan
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Japanese X-ray observatory launches
ASTRO-H will study galaxy clusters, active galactic nuclei and supernova remnants
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NASA’s WFIRST mission set for go-ahead
Space agency expected to make the probe an official project next month
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Fabiola Gianotti takes charge at CERN as lab weighs up designs for future colliders
New directorate will oversee the Large Hadron Collider's high-energy run and prepare for a major upgrade to the collider
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