Nuclear Physics

I've been putting off writing about this for a few days because it has been too painful: the UK is ending the International Year of Astronomy with a war on physics.In the beginningThe story begins back in February 2007 when I first discovered that UK research councils PPARC (Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council) and CCLRC (Central Laboratory of the Research Councils) were being merged along with the nuclear physics part of EPSRC...  

Everybody loves a race to the wire, even when the result is a tie. The great irony is the ultraprecise clocks that could result from this competition could probably break any tie. A second lab of physicists has now demonstrated the long-sought creation of a Bose-Einstein condensate of strontium atoms.  

Today's announcement of funding cuts by the Science and Technology funding council has enraged scientists, especially nuclear physicists  

Conference: 19 Apr 2010 - 21 Apr 2010, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Organized by Nuclear Physics Group.  

Recent funding reductions have damaged the British nuclear physics community - now it faces a new round of cuts  

Electrical forces are used to accelerate the charged particleContributor: Robert WilliamsPublished: Oct 20, 2009