Read article 'Canada steps onto the international stage'
Canadian particle physics received a boost earlier this year when the Canadian Foundation for Innovation announced support for nine infrastructure projects for international research.
Read article 'German Science Council endorses TESLA'
On 15 July 2002 the German Science Council published its evaluation of large-scale facilities for basic research in natural science.
Read article 'CERN-Asia programme offers grants to young postgraduates'
Within the framework of the CERN-Asia Fellows and Associates programme, CERN offers three grants every year to East, Southeast and South Asia postgraduates under the age of 33, enabling them to partic...
Read article 'UK signs up to ESO'
On 1 July, the UK officially became a member of the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
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...
