Read article 'Asia programme offers postgraduate grants'
Asia programme offers postgraduate grants
The appointment is for one year, which might exceptionally be extended to two years.
Read article 'Asia programme offers postgraduate grants'
Read article 'The international jigsaw puzzle'
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.
Read article 'TESLA project goes public'
TESLA project goes public
The DESY laboratory in Hamburg recently published plans for a superconducting linear electron-positron collider: TESLA. This article amplifies these ambitious plans and outlines the objectives of th...
Read article 'EC to fund project for faster optical detectors'
EC to fund project for faster optical detectors
The project, known as "Impecable", will fund the development of more efficient and faster optical detectors by the newly formed consortium, leading to their subsequent production by Photek and Electr...
Read article 'Data Grid project gets EU funding'
Data Grid project gets EU funding
Plans for the next generation of network-based information-handling systems took a major step forward when the European Union's Fifth Framework Information Society Technologies programme concluded ne...
Read article 'JAERI/KEK project gets government approval'
JAERI/KEK project gets government approval
Phase 1 of the new joint project between the Japanese Atomic Energy Research Institute and the national KEK laboratory on high-intensity proton accelerators has been given the go-ahead to begin const...
Read article 'Physics meeting reflects Vietnam’s prosperity'
Physics meeting reflects Vietnam’s prosperity
The latest of the now traditional Rencontres du Vietnam, organized by Trân Than Vân, took place in Hanoi last summer.
Read article 'Strength in numbers: particle physics goes global'
Strength in numbers: particle physics goes global
Particle physics has been "big science" for a long time. Its ambitious projects are also becoming more and more international, for it is only this way that the necessary resources can be amassed. A r...
Read article 'The road ahead'
The road ahead
In this article, CERN director-general Luciano Maiani explains why CERN's commitment to building the LHC collider overcame all pressures to prolong running the LEP electron-positron machine.
Read article 'Riken-RAL notch up another decade'
Riken-RAL notch up another decade
The 10 year collaboration between RIKEN, the Japanese Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, and the UK Rutherford Appleton Laboratory to create an intense muon source has been renewed for ano...
