Editorial

<正>The mutual development of wireless communications and radio astronomy dates back to the 1930s when Karl Guthe Jansky discovered the electrical disturbances at the center of the Galaxy using his merry-go-round. After more than 80 years of development, radio astrophysics has fully matured, with significant contributions in both technology (receiver, electronics, and mechanical engineering) as well as science (origin and evolution of the universe, extreme events, and fundamental laws). In     

Editorial

This current issue of Neutron News emphasizes the contrasting perspectives existing in the field of neutron scattering throughout the world. While in the United States the first successful tests of the SNS1 Linac have just been announced (see news report by Al Ekkebus on page 38-39), a recent meeting held in Tsukuba and Tokai (see page 13) dealt with the instrumental concepts and science to be achieved at J-PARC. These fast advances in the U.S. and Japan contrast with the recent "non-decision" of the European governments to build the ESS in the near future. At the last European Conference on Neutron Scattering held in Montpellier (see page 3) two afternoon sessions focused on the future of neutron scattering, aiming to prepare a strategy at the European level.     

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正The paradigm that our universe is dominated by non-luminous matter,i.e.,dark matter,rather than ordinary baryonic matter,has been established since the 1980s.However,the nature of dark matter remains almost unknown.Many ongoing space experiments are aiming at uncovering the particle nature of dark matter via precise measurements of the flux of cosmic-ray particles,with a hope to find fingerprints that tiny annihilations or decays of dark matter may have left.Such experiments     

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The IUMRS International Conference in Asia (IUMRS-ICA) is one of the most important serial conferences of the Interna-tional Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS), which is organized by the Materials Research Societies in the Asian areas. The first IUMRS-ICA took place in the mainland of China in September 1993 and was organized by C-MRS. The