Read article 'Europe coordinates astroparticle research'
European astroparticle physics received a boost last year with the formation of the Astroparticle Physics European Coordination (APPEC), established in an agreement signed by funding agencies from Fra...
Read article 'RIKEN and Brookhaven renew their vows'
At a ceremony marking the beginning of spin physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, the US laboratory renewed its collaboration agreement with Japan's Institute of...
Read article 'Globalization, collaboration and trust'
Big science needs its own brand of globalization, argues chairman of the DESY directorate, Albrecht Wagner.
Read article 'Particle physics is thriving in Switzerland'
An update on particle physics and closely related topics in Switzerland was presented at the University of Zurich in March to a subpanel of the European Committee for Future Accelerators, RECFA.
Read article 'Changing the culture of big science'
As scientific facilities become larger and more costly, so the management challenge grows. CERN director-general Luciano Maiani says that lessons learned from the LHC cost overrun will ultimately bene...
Read article 'CERN prepares to focus on the LHC'
At the March meetings of CERN's governing body, Council, the laboratory's management presented preliminary ideas for absorbing the cost overrun for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project identified l...
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 ...
