Read article 'US defines roadmap for science facilities'
The US Department of Energy's Office of Science has unveiled its 20 year science facility plan. This is in effect a roadmap for future scientific facilities to support the department's basic science a...
Read article 'CERN hosts major policy conference'
Scientists, policy makers and stakeholders from around the world came together at CERN on 8 and 9 December 2003, when the laboratory hosted The Role of Science in the Information Society (RSIS) confer...
Read article 'Endowment reward for string theorists'
String theory in India recently received an unexpected boost when Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire based in New York, gave string theorists associated with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TI...
Read article 'PAEC chairman pays visit to CERN'
Parvez Butt, chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), visited CERN on 15 October.
Read article 'Developing countries and the global science web'
Enabling scientists from developing countries to bridge the gap between rich and poor depends on closing another gap - the "digital divide". Now the technology exists to monitor this divide, and it re...
Read article 'Particle physics is thriving in Spain'
Earlier this year an ECFA sub-panel visited Spain and found, as Cecilia Jarlskog describes, a young and rapidly expanding community of particle physicists.
Read article 'The case for investing in the future'
Earlier this year 14 Nobel laureates wrote to the president of the CERN Council to encourage the member states to support some non-LHC research and R&D on future detectors and accelerators. Here we pr...
Read article 'DESY looks to the future'
Earlier this year the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research reached a policy decision on the TESLA project that determines the way ahead for DESY.
Read article 'World crises cast a long shadow on science'
Restrictions on travel to the US are having a damaging impact on international scientific collaboration, as Vera Lüth explains.
Read article 'CERN and Pakistan: a personal perspective'
How can a country like Pakistan benefit from working together with CERN? Ishfaq Ahmad explains.
