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.
Read article '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'
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'
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.
Read article 'mSUGRA celebrates its 20th year'
The SUGRA20 conference recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the invention of minimal supergravity grand unification, or mSUGRA, as Paul Frampton and Pran Nath describe.
Read article 'The tale of the Hagedorn temperature'
Johann Rafelski and Torleif Ericson recall Rolf Hagedorn's discovery of a limiting temperature - in effect a melting point for hadrons - and its influence on the physics of strong interactions.
Read article 'Frontier techniques for particle physics and beyond'
Giorgio Chiarelli reports from the 9th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors, held this year on the island of Elba.
Read article 'Decision to flood hits US underground science plans'
The announcement that pumping will stop at the Homestake mine has clouded the future of the favoured site for a proposed major underground laboratory in the US.
