Ask me anything: Crystal Bailey
The head of career programmes at the American Physical Society gives her advice to physics graduates
Tackling the grand challenges
Nobel laureate Steven Chu from Stanford University talks about his successes as energy secretary and tells Richard Blaustein how the US can collaborate in a competitive environment
Plans for African Space Agency jeopardized by lack of progress
Funding issues and questions over how the agency will operate are set to delay its 2023 implementation date
Collaboration and competition on the agenda as leading physicists meet in Washington
Travel restrictions and obstacles facing collaboration discussed at the American Physical Society’s annual leadership meeting
UK unveils post-Brexit investment and visa changes to boost science
Some £300m will be invested over five years in the mathematical sciences
Chinese researchers returning home in greater numbers
About 80% of Chinese scientists who have gone abroad to study or work in the previous decade have returned home
Committee urges Ireland to join CERN particle-physics lab
Report recommends Ireland becoming an associate member that would allow the country’s scientists to have access to formal training and become CERN staff members
Anything to declare?
Nicol Caplin delves into the dangers of contaminating pristine environments beyond the Earth
‘Crisis point’ reached as Trump administration weakens safeguards for government research
Report by the National Task Force on the Rule of Law and Democracy says that the integrity of US government research is under siege
To boldly go
Ian Randall reviews The Consequential Frontier: Challenging the Privatization of Space by Peter Ward
