A new executive agency will be created to take the UK’s recession-busting space and satellite sector into a new space age, Science and Innovation Minister Lord Drayson said today. more…
Stephen Mounsey finds out about the computing power behind some of the world’s most ambitious scientific projects…read more
The balmy south of France has always been a magnet for sun worshippers. So it is perhaps fitting that here, not far from the Côte d’Azur, an international team of researchers is building a machine to recreate the sun…read more
As reported in Physics World (October 2008) Tessella is providing software services to the next-generation ITER fusion reactor being built in France. Richard Layne, Tessellas’ Fusion Project Manager explains how the company is building on its extensive experience supporting fusion research at the Joint European Torus.
Institute of Physics News Release PR29 (08) Today (Thursday, 8 May, 2008) sees the launch of the Technology Strategy Board’s (TSB) ‘Connect and Catalyse’ strategy for business innovation in the UK. The success of the government in supporting science based businesses and promoting innovation across the civil service is bound up with the success of [...]
