Read article 'Brookhaven and China to join forces in research'
Representatives of the National Natural Science Foundation of China visited Brookhaven to learn more about the scientific programme of Brookhaven's new RHIC heavy ion collider and to explore opport...
Read article 'Swedish accelerators take a look at the past'
In the years immediately after the Second World War, several countries that were pushing to develop more powerful particle accelerators created an exclusive club. A recent symposium in Uppsala look...
Read article 'JINR-Russia agreement is ratified'
Under a new ruling, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, near Moscow, has the same legal status of an international organization in Russia as CERN enjoys in its host countries.
Read article 'SESAME: a mini CERN for the Middle East'
Science brings nations together, and synchrotron radiation facilities bring different kinds of science together.
Read article 'Korea and CERN make plans for future scientific collaborations'
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed recently in Seoul between a CERN delegation comprising the director of research Roger Cashmore, the advisor on non-member states John Ellis, the CMS resourc...
Read article 'CERN finalizes new agreement with ISTC'
A collaboration agreement between CERN and the International Science and Technology Centre, finalized in November and worth some 12 million Swiss francs, is a large step forward in CERN-ISTC co-operat...
Read article 'Heidelberg merger forms Kirchhoff Institute'
The former Institutes for High-Energy Physics and for Applied Physics at the University of Heidelberg have recently joined forces to become the new Kirchhoff Institute for Physics.
Read article 'Alcatel merges with AHTS'
Alcatel has signed the final agreement to take control of the superconductivity activities of Aventis Research & Technologies, a subsidiary of Hoechst.
Read article 'Summers in St Croix revisited'
An unlikely blend of geography, sponsorship and physics focus seems to work. Founding director Tom Ferbel describes a 20-year tradition of NATO-sponsored physics study institutes in the West Indies.
Read article 'Pakistani physics'
With LHC increasingly a focus for world physics, distant communities become key partners in the preparations for the big experiments. In Pakistan, an annual International Summer College on Physics and...
