Elizabeth Gibney
Scientific American
United Kingdom
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Nuclear Fusion Lab Achieves ‘Ignition’: What Does It Mean?
Fusion researchers at the U.S. National Ignition Facility created a reaction that made more energy than they put in → Read More
How Many Yottabytes in a Quettabyte? Extreme Numbers Get New Names
Prolific generation of data drove the need for prefixes that denote 10 27 and 10 30 → Read More
The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks
How, and whether, to keep atomic time in sync with Earth's rotation is still up for debate. → Read More
The Middle East is going green — while supplying oil to others
Arab governments are ramping up their green ambitions ahead of the COP27 climate summit, but show few signs of reining in fossil-fuel exports. → Read More
World’s largest fusion experiment ITER appoints new chief
Pietro Barabaschi, who will take over as director-general of ITER in October, plans to improve integration between collaborating agencies. → Read More
Upgraded LHC begins epic run to search for new physics
After a three-year shutdown, the Large Hadron Collider will smash particles together at the highest energies yet. → Read More
Happy birthday, Higgs boson! What we do and don’t know about the particle
Physicists are celebrating ten years since the Higgs boson’s discovery. But many of its properties remain mysterious. → Read More
Galaxies without dark matter perplex astronomers
Researchers say a cosmic collision could have created two galaxies that don’t contain the mysterious substance — but others cast doubt on the claim. → Read More
Particle’s surprise mass threatens to upend the standard model
Data from an old experiment finds that the mass of the W boson is higher than theory predicts, hinting at future breakthroughs. → Read More
Ukraine conflict jeopardizes launch of Europe’s first Mars rover
Sanctions mean joint Russian–European ExoMars mission is likely to be postponed for a third time. → Read More
Massive strikes at UK universities over ‘unsustainable’ working conditions
A dispute prompted by pensions cuts now encompasses pay, job security and workloads exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. → Read More
Asteroids, Hubble rival, and Moon base: China sets out space agenda
In the next five years, the nation hopes to launch a robotic craft to an asteroid and two lunar missions. → Read More
Nuclear-fusion reactor smashes energy record
The experimental Joint European Torus has doubled the record for the amount of energy made from fusing atoms — the process that powers the Sun. → Read More
First glimpse of lone black hole delights astronomers
The invisible cosmic tourist could carry clues about supernova explosions. → Read More
Last Chance for WIMPs: Physicists Launch All-Out Hunt for Dark Matter Candidate
Researchers have spent decades searching for the elusive particles. A final generation of detectors should leave them no place to hide → Read More
How a Small Arab Nation Built a Mars Mission from Scratch in Six Years
The United Arab Emirates’ Hope orbiter is the Arab world’s first interplanetary spacecraft — and has jump-started science in the country. Will the momentum last? → Read More
China Reveals Scientific Experiments for Next Space Station
Projects will probe topics including DNA mutation, fire behaviour and the birth of stars → Read More
Inside the Plans for Chinese Mega-Collider that Will Dwarf the LHC
Physicist Wang Yifang, the mastermind behind the project, gives Nature an update on the ambitious project → Read More
What the Nobels Are--and Aren't--Doing to Encourage Diversity
The prize-awarding academies are making changes to their secretive nomination processes to tackle bias, but some say the measures don’t go far enough → Read More
Japanese Mission Becomes First to Land Rovers on Asteroid
Twin probes from Hayabusa2 mission have sent back their first pictures from Ryugu’s surface → Read More