Read article 'Astroparticle physics and cosmology laboratory opens in Paris'
New Year's Day 2005 saw the official birth of the Laboratoire d'AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC) in Paris.
Read article 'Signs that black holes swarm at galaxy centre'
A swarm of 10,000 black holes may be orbiting the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. This estimate is based on theoretical expectations of the migration of black holes in our galaxy and the ob...
Read article 'Carbon sheds light on star creation'
New measurements of unstable nuclei caught in the act of decay have gone a long way towards resolving long-standing questions about the triple-alpha process that creates carbon nuclei.
Read article 'Does the motion of the solar system affect the microwave sky?'
A team from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and CERN has discovered surprising evidence that the largest-scale features of the microwave sky seem to be correlated with both the mot...
Read article 'Two dedicated satellites reveal the Earth’s pull on space-time'
The general relativistic prediction of the Lense-Thirring effect has been confirmed to a precision of less than 10%. The result was obtained by measurements of the position of two satellites over a pe...
Read article 'Do gamma rays indicate galactic dark matter?'
Is the recent detection of very-high-energy gamma rays from the galactic centre revealing the presence of dark matter? Or, is dark matter at the origin of the electron-positron annihilation in our gal...
Read article 'The case for mini black holes'
Tiny black holes could offer a richer view of physics than their better known, moremassive relations, as Aurélien Barrau and Julien Grain explain.
Read article 'Physicists meet in Beijing at ICHEP’04…'
ICHEP'04, the 32nd International Conference on High Energy Physics, was successfully held in Beijing from 16-22 August, hosted by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) and the Chinese Academy of...
Read article 'The hunt for Earth-sized exoplanets'
The discoveries of three new extrasolar planets were recently announced within the space of a week. With masses around or less than 20 times that of the Earth, these new exoplanets are the lightest kn...
Read article 'Looking at the stars from a well'
Observing what goes on in the heart of stars from deep below ground is an effective tool for understanding stellar interiors and the primordial universe, as Gianni Fiorentini and Alessandro Pascolini ...
