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• Japanese diplomat elected to head atomic agency

  Yukiya Amano set to succeed Mohamed ElBaradei.

  03 July 2009

• US nuclear recycling faces the axe

  Department of Energy cancels reprocessing project.

  02 July 2009

• North Korea's ignoble blast - Premium content

  Key gas signature of nuclear testing has not materialized.

  16 June 2009

• Astronomers lose access to military data - Premium content

  Satellite information on incoming meteors is blocked.

  12 June 2009

• Sweden likely winner for neutron source - Premium content

  European spallation facility looks set to land near Lund.

  03 June 2009

• Sweden snares neutron facility - Premium content

  Lund will play host to European Spallation Source.

  29 May 2009

• Fusion dreams delayed - Premium content

  International partners are likely to scale back the first version of the ITER reactor.

  27 May 2009

• North Korea's bigger blast - Premium content

  Monitors rush to confirm test of nuclear bomb.

  26 May 2009

• Austria quits CERN after 50 years - Premium content

  Physicists stunned by government's plans.

  13 May 2009

• Austria to quit CERN - Premium content

  Move will end 50-year participation in physics laboratory.

  08 May 2009

• Science journalism: Breaking the convention?

  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?

  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