Read article 'Astrowatch'
Stars seeing stars Subaru, a new Japanese telescope, saw first light in January. It joins the UK infrared telescope, the Dutch, UK and Canadian James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the US Keck Observator...
Read article 'New Director for SLAC'
Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre Director Burt Richter will step down on 31 August. His successor will be Jonathan Dorfan, associate director of SLAC and head of its recently dedicated B-Factory pro...
Read article 'Particle and nuclear astrophysics and cosmology committee'
A new committee, Particle And Nuclear Astrophysics and Gravitational International Committee, was created last October by IUPAP.
Read article 'SLAC B-Factory comes up to speed'
Shortly after the dedication of the PEP-II B-Factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre on 26 October, a team led by John Seeman resumed the task of commissioning the new electronpositron co...
Read article 'The case of the missing neutron stars'
Certain heavy stars at the end of their lives collapse in the most violent explosions known in the universe supernovae.
Read article 'Physicists enjoy the CERN School of Computing'
The annual CERN School of Computing displays the continual close symbiosis between computing and physics.
Read article 'Are neutrinos seasonal?'
The Sun could be surrounded by a flat disc of neutrinos more than a billion times denser than the neutrino cloud permeating the rest of the universe.
Read article 'RHIC Mock Data Challenge successfully completed at Brookhaven'
With Brookhaven's RHIC relativistic heavy-ion collider scheduled to be commissioned this year, preparations for its experimental programme gather momentum.
Read article 'Supernova testbed'
A nearby active galaxy reveals a unique population of exploding stars. Astronomers at the UK’s Jodrell Bank radio astronomy laboratory have observed over 50 supernova remnants in the galaxy M82....
Read article 'Astrowatch'
The furthest quasar Astronomers at the Sloan Digital Survey have broken the record for the most distant quasar ever observed. Quasars quasi-stellar objects are no larger than our solar s...
