Read article: Why the UK should build its own X-ray free electron laser
Physicists Adam Kirrander and Jon Marangos are backing a proposal to build the UK’s first X-ray free electron laser
Read article: Big science booms in China
Ling Xin takes us on a tour of four facilities that are in the building stages
Read article: New dawn for South African radio astronomy as major telescope nears completion
Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array will observe large-scale structures during the early universe
Read article: Construction go-ahead for €2bn Square Kilometre Array
Huge radio telescope will be complete by 2030 featuring hundreds of radio dishes and thousands of radio antennas in southern Africa and Australia
Read article: First results from UK tokamak offers a STEP towards commercial fusion
Findings from the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak experiment indicate a ten-fold reduction in exhaust heat load
Read article: Ethical hacking group worms its way into Fermilab
The Sakura Samurai team discovered configuration data for the lab’s NoVa experiment and more than 4500 “tickets” for tracking internal projects
Read article: Crisis in a lockdown: how NIST coped with a radiation leak
Robert P Crease describes how news of a radiation leak at a US neutron facility was handled in today’s online, networked and locked-down world
Read article: How the Daya Bay experiment helped China build a neutrino legacy
Ling Xin examines the legacy of the recently closed Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment and the future of neutrino physics in China
Read article: Biggest expansion of known chemical universe targeted by FRIB nuclear facility
The upcoming Facility for Rare Isotope Beams in Michigan promises great things for nuclear physicists, as Kit Chapman discovers
Read article: CERN’s new era for calorimeters
Dave Barney explains how the new calorimeter for CERN’s CMS experiment will be pivotal to the success of the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider
