Read article: US astronomers slam cuts to the Chandra X-ray observatory
NASA says that increasing management costs means it cannot afford to the keep the “great observatory” operational
Read article: MEPs call for ‘urgent action’ to implement post-quantum encryption standards
Some 20 members of the European Parliament say that new standards are needed to protect against quantum computers
Read article: Peter Higgs: Nobel-prize-winning particle theorist dies aged 94
Peter Higgs's work in the 1960s contributed to the prediction of a new particle, the so-called Higgs boson
Read article: Construction complete on the 3200 megapixel Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera
The instrument will spend the coming decade imaging over 20 million galaxies to create a 'movie' of the universe
Read article: Artificial intelligence will help pick Nobel Prize for Physics winners
Swedish Academy believes AI will reduce bias in evaluating nominations
Read article: Brazil becomes first Latin American country to join CERN
Brazilian nationals will now be eligible to apply for staff positions at CERN
Read article: Institute of Physics announces ‘impact projects’ for 2024
The green economy, space technologies and opportunities in venture capital investment have been choosen
Read article: Battle for the skies: US insists GMT and TMT telescopes must vie for funding
The NSF has been told to choose between the Giant Magellan Telescope and the Thirty Meter Telescope as a next-generation ground-based observatory
Read article: US Odysseus mission becomes first private craft to successfully land on the Moon
The craft also becomes the first US mission to make a soft landing on the Moon since Apollo 17 in December 1972
Read article: Seeing the wood for the trees: could forests be used as neutrino detectors?
Trees could detect radio waves produced by the interaction of tau neutrinos in the atmosphere
