Read article 'AMS en route to outer space via CERN'
The central tracker detector of the Anti Matter Spectrometer (AMS) arrived at CERN on 25 September ready for assembly with the other components of the experiment.
Read article 'ATLAS installs the final big muon wheel'
The ATLAS collaboration recently celebrated installing the last of the eight "big wheels" that form part of the endcap muon spectrometer of the detector.
Read article 'ALMA: a guided tour with Massimo Tarenghi'
The director of a new large-scale radio telescope explains its goals.
Read article 'The LOFAR radio telescope detects its first pulsar'
Using its first station of distributed radio antennas, the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope has successfully detected the pulsar PSR B0329+54.
Read article 'The ATLAS detector walks another mile'
The ATLAS collaboration gathers speed in commissioning its subdetectors.
Read article 'ATLAS toroid endcaps and LHCb beam pipe take their final steps'
In the early hours of 13 June, the first of the two gigantic toroid magnet endcaps touched the ATLAS cavern floor.
Read article 'LHCb prepares for a RICH harvest of rare beauty'
RICH detectors get ready for heavy-flavour physics at the LHC.
Read article 'Borexino begins data taking at Gran Sasso'
The Borexino detector is now fully operational at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso.
Read article 'VIRGO opens up new astronomy'
On 18 May, the Virgo laser interferometer for the detection of gravitational waves started its first science run at the European Gravitational Observatory, Pisa, marking a step forward towards a new ...
Read article 'THEMIS spacecraft take thin-contact silicon into orbit'
Particle detectors developed for high-energy and nuclear physics often find uses in many other fields. Now silicon detectors with thin entrance contacts have been launched into space aboard the five s...
