Read article: NASA suffering from ageing infrastructure and inefficient management practices, finds report
NASA has been warned that it may need to sacrifice new missions in order to rebalance the space agency’s priorities and achieve its long-term objectives
Read article: Almost 70% of US students with an interest in physics leave the subject, finds survey
The survey followed almost 4000 first-year students taking introductory physics courses at four US universities
Read article: Researchers with a large network of unique collaborators have longer careers, finds study
Female scientists tend to work in more tightly connected groups than men, which can negatively impact their careers
Read article: Estonia becomes first Baltic state to join CERN
The Baltic nation is now the 24th member state of the Geneva-based particle-physics lab
Read article: Fermilab is ‘doomed’ without management overhaul claims whistleblower report
A group of anonymous whistleblowers say that Fermilab is in 'crisis' and needs a management shake-up
Read article: NIST publishes first set of ‘finalized’ post-quantum encryption standards
The algorithms are designed to withstand the attack of a quantum computer
Read article: DUNE prototype detector records its first accelerator-produced neutrinos
Scientists will use the detector to study the interactions between antineutrinos and argon
Read article: Tsung-Dao Lee: Nobel laureate famed for work on parity violation dies aged 97
In the 1950s Lee proposed that "parity" is violated by the weak force
Read article: US plasma physicists propose construction of a ‘flexible’ stellarator facility
The Flexible Stellarator Physics Facility would test different approaches to stellarator magnetic confinement
Read article: NASA cancels delay-hit $450m VIPER lunar prospector
The mission will now be disassembled with components used for future Moon missions
