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• Europe puts brakes on fusion project

  Firing up ITER in 2018 is not feasible, warn council delegates.

  19 November 2009

• Lithium loss may be the planet-hunter's gain - Premium content

  Depletion of the element in stars might be linked to the existence of extrasolar planets.

  11 November 2009

• Britain sets up defence advisory group - Premium content

  Government seeks academic input on security issues.

  10 November 2009

• Supernova mystery solved? - Premium content

  Sooty neutron star could lie at the heart of Cassiopeia A.

  04 November 2009

• Dark-matter test faces obstacles - Premium content

  Access to crystals may hamper bid to repeat experiment.

  03 November 2009

• An intergalactic race in space and time - Premium content

  A burst of γ-rays lets scientists test quantum theories of gravity.

  28 October 2009

• Bright light hints at a dark centre to the Galaxy - Premium content

  Mysterious matter may be colliding at the Milky Way's core.

  19 October 2009

• Researchers create portable black hole - Premium content

  Mini-hole made of metamaterials ensnares microwave light.

  15 October 2009

• Particle physicist 'falsely accused', claims brother - Premium content

  As Adlène Hicheur is investigated for terrorist links, his brother speaks out.

  13 October 2009

• Fusion delays sow concern - Premium content

  Construction on ITER won't begin until 2010.

  13 October 2009

• Science journalism: Breaking the convention? - Premium content

  Blogs and Twitter are opening up meetings to those not actually there. Does that mean too much access to science in the raw, asks Geoff Brumfiel.

  24 June 2009

• Metamaterials: Ideal focus - Premium content

  Before they were touted as invisibility cloaks, metamaterials promised a perfect lens. Geoff Brumfiel reports on the struggle for superior vision.

  27 May 2009

• Science journalism: Supplanting the old media? - Premium content

  Science journalism is in decline; science blogging is growing fast. But can the one replace the other, asks Geoff Brumfiel.

  18 March 2009

• Newsmaker of the year: The machine maker - Premium content

  He did more than anyone to build the Large Hadron Collider. This year he saw it finished -- and then break down. Geoff Brumfiel profiles the LHC's project leader, Nature's newsmaker of the year.

  17 December 2008

• Particle physics: The race to break the standard model

  The Large Hadron Collider is the latest attempt to move fundamental physics past the frustratingly successful 'standard model'. But it is not the only way to do it. Geoff Brumfiel surveys the contenders attempting to capture the prize before the collider gets up to speed.

  10 September 2008

• Funding: The research revolution - Premium content

  As the first grants from the European Research Council begin to come through, Geoff Brumfiel investigates whether the new system is meeting its goals.

  18 June 2008

• Experimental cosmology: Cosmos in a bottle - Premium content

  Physicists often borrow techniques from other fields. But how far can this get you? Geoff Brumfiel asks if simple table-top experiments can provide new insights into the early Universe.

  16 January 2008

• Non-proliferation: School of Nukes - Premium content

  How do nuclear inspectors know when all is not as they are told? Geoff Brumfiel joins some inspectors-in-training as they learn the ropes at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

  10 October 2007