Physics misses out in US budget
At the DOE, the budget for basic energy science is set to rise by 11%, with two-thirds of this going to meet construction costs for the Spallation Neutron Source being built at Oak Ridge. Fusion resea...
New leaders for SLAC and ESO
Dorfan was born in South Africa and received his first degree from the University of Cape Town, and his doctorate from the University of California at Irvine in 1976. He has spent most of his career a...
UK schools to get robotic telescope
Faulkes was educated at Hinckley Grammar School and at an early age specialised in science. He obtained a degree from Hull University and then went to London University to do a PhD in general relativi...
First module of international space station launched
The 24 ton Zarya (meaning “daybreak”) module is based on the long experience the Russian Space Agency has had with the Mir space station. Unlike the US space station Skylab, which was unti...
ESA maps out a Martian future
At a cost of ECU 150 m Mars Express is already the cheapest space mission ever proposed for the red planet. However, scientists on the committee are worried that if costs on Mars Express escalate, the...
Stars hint at Shakespeare’s identity
The foundation of Altschuler’s argument is that although the plays refer to many astronomical events that occurred before de Vere’s death in 1604 – such as the supernova in 1572 and ...
Russia sells research time
In the deal NASA gains Russia’s research time during the first four to five years of the space station’s construction, the rights to store experiments onboard a Russian-built module and th...
International projects face flak in Congress
Sensenbrenner has long campaigned against ITER, an international collaboration between fusion labs in Europe, Japan, Russia and the US. He claims that ITER has soaked up valuable funds that could be u...
Quasar images confirm potential of virtual telescopes
HALCA was launched by Japanese astronomers in 1997 to detect radio signals at wavelengths that that are difficult to detect from the ground. In addition to conducting their own observations, the HALCA...
