Read article 'Constructing ATLAS: a modern ‘ship in a bottle’'
Now that the civil engineering is complete, the cavern for the ATLAS detector at the LHC is ready for the complex business of installing the detector, as Robert Eisenstein explains.
Read article 'Physics helps medicine gain a sharper view'
The second International Conference on Imaging Technologies in Biomedical Sciences (ITBS) was held on 26-30 May in Athens and on the island of Milos, Greece. The conference was organized by the Greek ...
Read article 'Forty years of high-energy physics in Protvino'
The Institute for High Energy Physics near Serpukhov in Russia is celebrating four decades of research and international collaboration in particle physics.
Read article 'Faster, brighter, shorter'
A proposed new facility, called LUX, will be able to combine accelerator and laser systems to study ultrafast dynamics across a wide range of sciences.
Read article 'CERN and Pakistan: a personal perspective'
How can a country like Pakistan benefit from working together with CERN? Ishfaq Ahmad explains.
Read article 'Journey to the centre of the Earth'
One of the first applications of neutrinos to science beyond particle physics could tell us about the heat produced by radioactivity in the Earth.
Read article 'New light shed on strange physics'
The latest generation of high-current electron accelerators in the GeV energy range is breathing new life into a variety of investigations based on the photoproduction of kaons, as Terry Mart explains...
Read article 'CERN’s teachers’ programme celebrates its sixth year'
The High School Teachers' programme at CERN celebrated the completion of its sixth session in July, with 40 teachers participating, not only from all over Europe, but also from China, Mongolia and the...
Read article 'The CERN openlab: a novel testbed for the Grid'
A new model for partnership between CERN and industry is both integrating and testing emerging computer technologies for the LHC Computing Grid.
Read article 'Has the deconfinement phase transition been seen?'
New results from the NA49 experiment at CERN suggest that the onset of the transition to deconfined quarks and gluons has been observed at the lower end of the SPS energy region.
