Read article 'Nuclear treasure island'
Nuclear treasure island
1999 looks to be a vintage year for "superheavy" nuclei. These heavier-than-uranium isotopes are a 20th-century postcript to the Periodic Table.
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Read article 'First postcard from the island of nuclear stability'
First postcard from the island of nuclear stability
Recent experiments that took place at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, near Moscow, reported evidence for element 114, the first inhabitant of a new island of nuclear stability.
Read article 'COMPASS course to future computing'
COMPASS course to future computing
A major new spectrometer that is being installed at CERN will be a flagship fixed-target experiment for the millennium. Its voracious appetite for data requires new computing solutions, opening the do...
Read article 'Weaving a better tomorrow: the future of the Web'
Weaving a better tomorrow: the future of the Web
The World Wide Web is 10 years old, but it is only just beginning to fulfil its potential. At the eighth World Wide Web conference in Toronto in May, James Gillies learned what the next decade might h...
Read article 'Pakistani physics'
Pakistani physics
With LHC increasingly a focus for world physics, distant communities become key partners in the preparations for the big experiments. In Pakistan, an annual International Summer College on Physics and...
Read article 'Looking for Higgs and supersymmetry'
Looking for Higgs and supersymmetry
Some of the most compelling questions in particle physics today are to do with the Higgs boson and supersymmetry (SUSY).
Read article 'K for KLOE… …and Z for Zweig'
K for KLOE… …and Z for Zweig
The first kaons from the new DAFNE phimeson factory at Frascati underline a fascinating chapter in the evolution of particle physics.
Read article 'Fundamental physics in space'
Fundamental physics in space
What better way of launching science in the new millennium than embarking on a programme of fundamental physics research in space? Maurice Jacob looks at existing plans and new possibilities.
Read article 'How Martin Luther King almost came to Fermilab'
How Martin Luther King almost came to Fermilab
At his 80th birthday event at Fermilab, former laboratory deputy director, Ned Goldwasser, recalled Fermilab's early days, when human rights were as important as protons.
Read article 'Muon ring could act as a neutrino factory'
Muon ring could act as a neutrino factory
Neutrinos have always been in the particle physics spotlight. However, with new machine ideas opening up the possibility of intense neutrino sources, this area of research could go on to reveal furthe...
