The secret to flying carbon-free
James McKenzie wonders how realistic it will be to de-carbonize air travel
Business and innovation
Realistic visions for augmented-reality headsets
After an euphoric few years, developers of augmented reality devices face tough challenges ahead
Physicists come top in ‘deep tech’ start-up challenge
Spectroscopy specialists Senorics and milk-analysis firm Labby take first and second prize in the annual Photonics West competition
A supercontinuum success story
Photonics experts share tales of bright ideas that panned out – and others where the outcome is yet to be determined
The many valleys of death for healthcare photonics
Entrepreneurs at Photonics West share their stories of translating laboratory advances into clinical practice
Reimagining the future of food
Joe McEntee reports from an annual gathering of food physicists in Leeds, UK
Education and outreach
Inquiry-led physics lab courses boost student engagement, finds study
Students have better attitudes to experimental physics if lab classes teach experimention skills, not reinforce lecture content
Careers for physicists in a dynamic world
PhD students at a careers event in Edinburgh, UK picked up tips from physicists in data science, hi-tech manufacturing, medical AI and more
CityU physics: east meets west on a growth trajectory
City University of Hong Kong has ambitious plans to deliver global recognition and impact from its fast-growing physics research programme
Empowering new scientific voices
Rose Mutiso and Jessamyn Fairfield say that public engagement helps to make science more diverse and collaborative
Making a difference
Three early-career scientists talk to Jude Dineley about their projects to make academia healthier, more productive and equitable
Student mentoring needs to be better recognized and rewarded, says report
Report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine sets out a series of actions to strengthen mentoring within US scientific disciplines
Policy and funding
Plans for African Space Agency jeopardized by lack of progress
Funding issues and questions over how the agency will operate are set to delay its 2023 implementation date
Collaboration and competition on the agenda as leading physicists meet in Washington
Travel restrictions and obstacles facing collaboration discussed at the American Physical Society’s annual leadership meeting
UK unveils post-Brexit investment and visa changes to boost science
Some £300m will be invested over five years in the mathematical sciences
Chinese researchers returning home in greater numbers
About 80% of Chinese scientists who have gone abroad to study or work in the previous decade have returned home
Committee urges Ireland to join CERN particle-physics lab
Report recommends Ireland becoming an associate member that would allow the country’s scientists to have access to formal training and become CERN staff members
Anything to declare?
Nicol Caplin delves into the dangers of contaminating pristine environments beyond the Earth
Projects and facilities
The 10 most important future big-science facilities in physics
A meeting in Oxford discussed the past, present and future of large-scale facilities in physics
Brookhaven chosen to host major US nuclear physics facility
Due to start by 2030, the Electron-Ion Collider will probe the strong nuclear force and the role of gluons in nucleons and nuclei
Europe draws up plans for plasma-based particle accelerators
Compact devices would be far cheaper than existing technology
Square Kilometre Array hit by €250m shortfall
Officials planning the giant radio telescope hope to plug the funding gap by attracting new countries to the project
CERN expected to announce one-year delay to Large Hadron Collider upgrade
Decision is set to be taken tomorrow on whether to postpone the completion of the high-luminosity upgrade until 2028
European physicists propose huge underground gravitational-wave laboratory
ELGAR would consist of two 32 km-long arms to detect gravitational waves via atom interferometry
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