Read article 'Hands-on particles appeal to students'
It is not true that particle physics - the underlying mechanisms of the universe - can only be understood after a long and difficult apprenticeship. To reach out and appeal to young students, Erik Joh...
Read article 'Magazine plays its part in physics history'
Gordon Fraser, who has stepped down as editor of CERN Courier looks at how the physics scene has changed during his time working on the magazine.
Read article 'CERN Courier travels far with publishing partner'
The magazine CERN Courier is distributed all over the world. So-Mui Cheung of the Institute of Physics Publishing in Bristol, England, explains how this is achieved.
Read article 'School returns to Switzerland'
For the first time since its inception nearly 40 years ago, the European School of High-Energy Physics was held in Switzerland at Beatenberg in the Bernese Oberland.
Read article 'Latin-American school marks start of a new collaboration for CERN'
The first school of high-energy physics organized jointly by CERN and CLAF (Centro latinoamericano de física), Rio de Janeiro was held in Itacuruçá, Brazil on 6-19 May and it hopefully marked the o...
Read article 'First African school for instrumentation'
A recent instrumentation school held near Cape Town, South Africa, reflected the increasing worldwide appeal of fundamental physics. The first such school to be held on the African continent, it gen...
Read article 'CERN experience benefits students and specialists'
CERN has shown how international collaboration in science works. Different national attitudes complement and reinforce each other, but this needs to be experienced first.
Read article 'ATLAS becomes a film star'
An 18 minute video entitled The ATLAS Experiment has been declared overall winner of the 2000 MIF-Sciences Scientific Film Box Office contest. The award-winning film explains how more than 1800 phys...
Read article 'HEP electronic publishing takes off'
Scientific communication is now virtually instantaneous, with scientists able to download book-quality versions of papers. High-energy physics has been in the eye of this publishing storm - witness t...
Read article 'The internationalism of science as an ideal'
While international collaboration has become the backbone of Big Science, national undercurrents could erode these achievements. Thomas Walcher looks at some of the potential problems for physics jo...
