Read article 'Model magnet for CERN’s LHC reaches 250 T/m in Japan'
Special superconducting quadrupole magnets for squeezing the beams at CERN's LHC collider have been successfully developed at the Japanese KEK laboratory as part of the LHC co-operation programme betw...
Read article 'Tantalum detector'
A new development in detector technology is good news for astronomers.
Read article 'Astrowatch'
ESO update The first 8.2 m telescope of the Very Large Telescope array opens to astronomers on 1 April. It has already made interesting discoveries during its commisioning stage. Observations of one o...
Read article 'Pakistan creates national centre for physics'
To promote research in physics and strengthen university capability in Pakistan, a National Centre for Physics has been established at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.
Read article 'Symmetry violation in a new setting'
The CDF experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron protonantiproton collider has produced heroic new evidence for the violation of "CP" symmetry, a hypothetical operation which takes a particle into a mirro...
Read article 'Neutrons in time'
A new limit on the electric dipole moment of the neutron comes from an experiment using ultra-cold neutrons at the research reactor at the international Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France.
Read article 'DEP and PSL sign distribution agreement'
Photodetector supplier Delft Electronic Products, now in its 30th year of manufacturing for the worldwide image intensifier market, has signed a distributor agreement with Photonic Science Ltd for t...
Read article 'CERN: Circular solution to the enigma of nucleon spin'
Over half the nucleon's spin is unaccounted for, but circularly-polarized photons could soon reveal where it is.
Read article 'ISAC produces first ion beam at TRIUMF'
On 30 November 1998 the new ISAC facility at the Canadian TRIUMF laboratory in Vancouver produced its first ion beam with short-lived exotic isotopes.
Read article 'Gas reveals secrets of universe evolution'
New observations using the ROSAT X-ray telescope endorse a “bottom-up” model of the evolution of the universe. Most ordinary matter in the universe is in the hot gas that makes up the inte...
