Read article 'CERN establishes formal links with SESAME'
A memorandum of understanding that provides for co-operation between the new international centre for Synchrotron light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME), CERN and ...
Read article 'Decision to flood hits US underground science plans'
The announcement that pumping will stop at the Homestake mine has clouded the future of the favoured site for a proposed major underground laboratory in the US.
Read article 'Developing countries and CERN'
John Ellis looks at what CERN can offer scientists - and the wider society - in developing countries.
Read article 'Internet for the masses'
Onno Purbo, a prominent Indonesian IT expert, sees a self-financed, bottom-up Internet infrastructure as the key to achieving a knowledge-based society in developing countries.
Read article 'Physics in a knowledge-based economy'
Maurice Jacob, a former president of the European Physical Society, argues that a future dynamic economy will depend on a strong physics base.
Read article 'ACFA unveils plans for linear collider'
The Asian Committee for Future Accelerators (ACFA), together with the Japan Association of High Energy Physics (JAHEP) and the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), have published a "ro...
Read article 'CERN and Saclay: 40 years of co-operation'
The Saclay research centre opened its doors in 1952, just two years before CERN was founded. For much of the time since then, the two laboratories have enjoyed a fruitful collaboration, spanning the d...
Read article 'Let the data free!'
Three researchers working in the new field of astroparticle physics argue the case for making the data from astroparticle experiments public.
Read article 'German government pronounces on TESLA projects'
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research gave the go-ahead on 5 February for the TESLA X-ray laser to be built at DESY as a European project.
Read article 'China agrees upgrade of its particle collider'
On 10 February, the Chinese government approved the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider Upgrading Program (BEPCII), finally making the long expectation of the Chinese high-energy physics community a re...
