Read article 'CANDLE lights up research in Armenia'
As Armenian scientists continue their efforts to promote the creation of the CANDLE facility, a third-generation light source, Vasili Tsakanov explains the importance of the project both to the region...
Read article 'The search for the disappearing neutrinos'
A series of three workshops has considered a new generation of experiments at nuclear reactors, which could help to pin down the neutrino mixing matrix.
Read article 'Theory and experiment peer across the frontier'
The fourth conference in the "Beyond" series presented a clear overview of - and beyond - the current frontiers of particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology.
Read article 'CERN’s giant fridge'
The first stage of the refrigeration system for the Large Hadron Collider is now installed and ready for the initial cooling tests in 2005, as Laurent Tavian describes.
Read article 'There’s plenty of room at the top'
Space is the ultimate laboratory for fundamental physics and the possibility of holding experiments there was the theme of the SpacePart '03 conference. Roberto Battiston reports.
Read article 'The W and Z at LEP'
The Large Electron Positron collider made significant contributions to the process of establishing the Standard Model as the basis for matter and forces, and also built a platform for physics scenario...
Read article 'ISOLDE goes on the trail of superlatives'
The superlarge nuclei studied at CERN's ISOLDE facility can now vie for attention with the superdeformed and the superheavy, as David Lunney explains.
Read article 'Space goes quantum at Stony Brook'
Does a melting crystal provide the key to developing a quantum description of gravity? Advances at the first Simons Workshop point to a connection.
Read article 'ASACUSA enters a new world of precision'
The antiproton may soon be better known than the proton, and an ion that is more hydrogen-like than hydrogen may become the subject of high-precision laser spectroscopy experiments. John Eades describ...
Read article 'The W and Z particles: a personal recollection'
Pierre Darriulat, who was spokesperson for the UA2 collaboration between 1978 and 1985, looks back at the events surrounding the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN in 1983.
