Read article 'Physicists brim with confidence'
In the quest for new, higher-precision measurements, handling experimental results is an essential and increasingly important part of modern research, but it is rarely discussed in the open. A rece...
Read article 'Swedish accelerators take a look at the past'
In the years immediately after the Second World War, several countries that were pushing to develop more powerful particle accelerators created an exclusive club. A recent symposium in Uppsala look...
Read article 'Scintillations in Seattle'
Making invisible physics visible has always called for ingenuity. The techniques can also lead to important applications in other areas. Two meetings in Seattle offered an update on developments. P...
Read article 'Cracow establishes a tradition'
Neutrinos were the subject of an annual conference held in Poland in January.
Read article 'Heavy implications for the first second'
After a decade of running, the results from CERN's research programme with high-energy nuclear beams provide tantalizing glimpses of mechanisms that shaped our universe.
Read article 'Making muon rings round neutrino factories'
A new way of making neutrino beams has caught the attention of physicists worldwide.
Read article 'Neutrons in the material world'
Some 15 years ago, an ambitious plan to create a neutron source out of an aging particle accelerator came to fruition. Today, accelerator, detector and data acquisition developments continue to play...
Read article 'Honouring Burton Richter'
Winner of a Nobel Prize for physics, a longtime laboratory director and a leading figure in international science - Burton Richter's contributions range wide. A recent celebration at the Stanford Li...
Read article 'Bogolyubov conference caravan takes in Moscow, Dubna and Kiev'
Last year the 90th anniversary of the birth of Russian scientific polymath Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov was marked by an international conference, which travelled through the three cities where he...
Read article 'Discovery of doubly magic nickel'
An experiment at the French GANIL laboratory has recently discovered a new "doubly magic" nucleus - only the tenth such isotope known to science.
