The space physicist Michele Dougherty has stepped aside as president of the Institute of Physics, which publishes Physics World. The move was taken to avoid any conflicts of interest given her ...

The UK is scrapping more than £250mn of planned funding for four big physics infrastructure projects, including an upgrade of the Cern particle accelerator led since last month by a senior British ...

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The 64-year-old fellow of the Royal Society was asked about the controversy surrounding the tech billionaire after claims he violated its code of conduct by spreading misinformation ...

The planned cuts come as UK Research and Innovation, the umbrella funding body, pushes through a strategic shift to spend more on government priority sectors such as life sciences. The agency plans to ...

Professor Michele Dougherty, Astronomer Royal, may have made a payload’s worth of space discoveries over her career, but she has no desire to board a rocket ship herself. “I think I might be a ...