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...
Read article 'Summer students benefit from CERN visit'
CERN always has plenty of visitors, but never more so than in the summer, when the itinerant population is boosted by several hundred students from CERN member states and further afield.
Read article 'Accelerator schools set sail'
Every two years, Europe, Japan, Russia and the US collaborate to organize a Joint Accelerator School, giving accelerator physicists and engineers from each region an opportunity to meet experts from...
Read article 'Painstaking research'
In his Rutherford biography, New Zealand physicist John Campbell has done an immense amount of spadework. Some of this is references in the book, but more complete references are being assigned to ...
Read article 'Caught in the QuarkNet'
Large international collaborations formed around experiments at CERN's future LHC collider include outreach and education as part of their mission. Among the recipients of LHC data will be eager high...
Read article 'Pakistani physics'
With LHC increasingly a focus for world physics, distant communities become key partners in the preparations for the big experiments. In Pakistan, an annual International Summer College on Physics and...
