* Astronomy

A new research reactor to be used as neutron source will start operation from next year, Chinese scientists have told a workshop in Beijing.
The China Advanced Research Reactor (CARR) was still being established and would be put into use in the second half of 2007, said Zhao Zhixiang, president of the China Institute of Atomic Energy, at the US-China Workshop Series on Neutron Scattering Science and Technology.
Neutron scattering would help scientific research by probing the micro-structures of matter and help the advance of industrial technologies.

Source Xinhua