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...
Read article 'Ireland invests in a scientific future'
The Irish government is investing in a new initiative to encourage leading scientists and engineers to move to Ireland. William Harris, director-general of Science Foundation Ireland, explains.
Read article 'Science, technology and the Third World'
Abdus Salam believed that the gap between rich and poor nations is one of science and technology. His former student Riazuddin describes efforts to bridge that gap.
Read article 'LCLS gets funding as TESLA wins support'
The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) project at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), which passed the US Department of Energy's "Critical Decision 1" process in October 2002, has been allo...
Read article 'CERN Council sets the stage for the LHC'
The LHC is now the main focus of activity at CERN, as components for the accelerator arrive at the laboratory from around the world.
Read article 'J-PARC project is inaugurated'
This is a joint project between KEK and the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute.
Read article 'Karlsruhe Grid computing centre is inaugurated'
To cope with the computational requirements of the LHC experiments, a worldwide virtual computing centre is being developed - a global computational grid of tens of thousands of computers and storage ...
Read article 'UK boosts technology transfer support'
During the past year, the UK's Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) has begun an innovative approach to strengthening technology transfer with CERN.
Read article 'Extra funding for Perimeter Institute'
Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics was awarded C$25 million (€16 million) by the Canadian Federal government at a groundbreaking ceremony in June. Soon after, the province of...
