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The British government's latest policy document on higher education is a disgrace. Academics now have nothing to lose but the tenure of their jobs (itself proscribed).
A meeting in Senegal enabled AIDS researchers to learn more of the possible African origin of the virus that causes AIDS and virus-associated cancers in Africa.
A constellation of laser battle stations in low Earth orbit could intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in their boost phase. If such lasers are available decades hence, they will face fast-burn ICBMs and find their task more difficult. How difficult is shown by an elementary analysis taking into account laser retarget time.