Read article 'Symposium aims to uncover dark secrets'
The 5th Symposium of Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe, held in February at Marina del Rey, California, focused on the current state of detection and theoretical stu...
Read article 'Heavy ions offer a new approach to fusion'
Three US laboratories have teamed up to form the Heavy-Ion Fusion Virtual National Laboratory to investigate a novel approach to fusion energy. Christine Celata profiles the highly tangible programme ...
Read article 'Cosmic-ray observations need accelerator data'
Some 50 people attended the NEEDS workshop in Karlsruhe in April to discuss how accelerator experiments can help in understanding cosmic-ray data. The meeting brought together experimentalists and the...
Read article 'Symposium links physics disciplines'
Europe's three principal physics research organizations, CERN, ESA and ESO, held a joint symposium in Munich in March. Maurice Jacob gives a glimpse of what proved to be a busy first encounter.
Read article 'US facility explores wakefield acceleration'
A group of scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory in the US is pursuing the novel technique of electron beam-driven wakefield acceleration. This uses the strong electromagnetic fields that foll...
Read article 'Fermilab turns up the heat on electron cooling'
A technique that was first proposed by Gersh Budker in 1966 is being injected with new life by a team of physicists at Fermilab in the US. Kurt Riesselmann reports.
Read article 'New detectors for physics at a new mass scale'
Workshops on next-generation neutrino detectors and devices to detect possible nucleon decay have been held since 1999. Jacques Bouchez of the French atomic energy commission (CEA) reports on the most...
Read article 'Victor Weisskopf: looking back on a distinguished career'
Wolfgang Kummer pays tribute to former CERN director-general Victor Weisskopf, who died on 22 April at the age of 93.
Read article 'Particle physics software aids space and medicine'
Geant4 is a showcase example of technology transfer from particle physics to other fields such as space and medical science, argue Maria Grazia Pia and Jürgen Knobloch.
Read article 'New tools help libraries to harvest literature'
Electronic publishing makes material accessible to more people, but this is not always a problem-free process. Ingrid Geretschlager and Jocelyne Jerdelet describe how the CERN library got to grips wit...
