Read article 'Faster, brighter, shorter'
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 'Faster, brighter, shorter'
Read article 'CERN and Pakistan: a personal perspective'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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?'
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.
Read article 'Deuteron-gold collisions clarify ‘jet quenching’ results'
Deuteron-gold collisions clarify ‘jet quenching’ results
New measurements at RHIC provide further insight into heavy-ion collisions at high energies.
Read article 'ALICE prepares for still higher energies'
ALICE prepares for still higher energies
Collisions of lead ions at the LHC will take heavy-ion physics into a new high-energy regime.
Read article 'On the trail of dark energy'
On the trail of dark energy
One of the most remarkable discoveries of recent years is that the universe appears to be dominated by some form of "dark energy", as Eric Linder explains.
