US Star Wars test fails
(Updated 13 Oct)
Heavy ions split US and Europe
More than 1000 nuclear physicists are striving to avoid a split in the community over the next generation of heavy-ion experiments
India invests in fast-breeder reactor
The money will go on technology development and testing, materials science research, studies on the reprocessing of fast-breeder fuel, site investigations and preliminary building work
Particle factory opens in Italy
The first of a new generation of meson factories was officially inaugurated in Italy at the end of September
