Read article 'US nuclear scientists chart a new course'
More than a year after being asked to study the opportunities and priorities for US nuclear physics research in the coming decade, the Department of Energy/National Science Foundation Nuclear Science ...
Read article 'ICFA sets up international committee for linear collider project'
At a meeting held in February at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) announced that an international steering committee would be set up t...
Read article 'How CERN became popular with US physicists'
In last month's issue we traced the history of CERN-US collaboration from its post-war beginnings to the advent of proton collider physics in the 1970s. Here Gordon Fraser continues the story to the p...
Read article 'Science knows no boundaries'
Physics provides a stage for international collaboration. At the opening of a recent exhibition at the Russian Duma, presented by CERN and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, CERN adviser for ...
Read article 'CERN reacts to increased LHC costs'
At its December meeting, CERN's governing Council decided on new measures to react to the increased costs that emerged last year for its future Large Hadron Collider.
Read article 'Subpanel recommends a collision course'
This facility is the next major step in the field and should be designed, built and operated as a fully international effort.
Read article 'Quaero makes particle detector datasets available for all'
A major step towards "transparent" particle physics has come from a new scheme that opens up data collected by the D0 experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron proton-antiproton collider.
Read article 'Astroparticle physicists gain increased support'
Understanding what happens in the largest objects of the universe in terms of interactions between the smallest particles of matter might seem a tall order, but funding agencies see that, as well ...
Read article 'Asia programme offers postgraduate grants'
The appointment is for one year, which might exceptionally be extended to two years.
Read article 'The international jigsaw puzzle'
As well as the 20 nations of the CERN family, several other nations further afield are making major contributions to the laboratory's flagship Large Hadron Collider.
