Read article 'Survey helps US with long-range planning'
A group of young US physicists recently conducted a survey to find out where high-energy physics is heading. The results reveal that growing internationalization makes physicists at isolated centres...
Read article 'Science knows no boundaries'
Physics provides a stage for international collaboration. At the opening of a recent exhibition at the Russian Duma, presented by CERN and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, CERN adviser for ...
Read article 'Magazine plays its part in physics history'
Gordon Fraser, who has stepped down as editor of CERN Courier looks at how the physics scene has changed during his time working on the magazine.
Read article 'CERN Courier travels far with publishing partner'
The magazine CERN Courier is distributed all over the world. So-Mui Cheung of the Institute of Physics Publishing in Bristol, England, explains how this is achieved.
Read article 'Polarized colliders may prove to be the key in mapping out proton spin structure'
Arcane complication or vital property? Opinions about particle spin differ, but those who feel strongly about it say that more spin has to come into collision.
Read article 'The INFN marks half a century of research'
The Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. Elisabetta Durante Romano looks at the origins of the institute, its subsequent development and its role in...
Read article 'Werner Heisenberg: the Columbus of quantum mechanics'
This year marks the centenary of the birth of Werner Heisenberg, pioneer of quantum mechanics and theoretical high-energy physics. Helmut Rechenberg, Heisenberg's last postgraduate, co-editor of his ...
Read article 'Bose-Einstein condensation revisited'
The award of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Physics to Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl Wieman for their "achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms and for early fun...
Read article 'The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory – Canada’s eye on the universe'
Some 2000 metres underground in a working nickel mine, physicists have installed one of the world's most sensitive instruments for observing the universe. Operational since 1999, the Sudbury Neutrino...
Read article 'Database lists the top-cited physics papers'
Citation tracking can point to the most influential trends in research. Heath O'Connell and Michael Peskin analyse the chart for the year 2000 and report the hottest topics in high-energy physics.
