Read article 'Neutrino oscillations NOW'
Neutrinos are never far from the physics headlines. Neutrino oscillations when different types of neutrinos transform among themselves has emerged as the big talking point of 1998. A topical...
Read article 'Applied superconductivity in Russia'
A school on applied superconductivity held near the Russian proton accelerator at the Protvino Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), near Moscow, provided a valuable snapshot of this important...
Read article 'Twenty-five years of neutral currents'
In the summer of 1973, an experiment at the Gargamelle bubble chamber at CERN discovered a new physics effect. Gordon Fraser looks back at how confirmation of the existence of neutral currents ushere...
Read article '25 years of asymptotic freedom'
A quarter of a century ago, several theorists published an unexpected result which opened the door to quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the unusual field theory that describes quarks and gluons. This ye...
Read article 'The prospects for particle physics'
The second of two articles, in which as his five-year mandate as Director-General of CERN nears its end, Chris Llewellyn Smith reflects on what particle physics has achieved, and where it may be go...
Read article 'Making a song and dance about physics'
Who needs the Spice Girls? What physicists want (what they really, really want) is science entertainment from Les Horribles Cernettes and the physics chanteuse Lynda Williams.
Read article 'High vacuum'
While the 27 km tunnel for the LEP electron–positron collider at CERN was being prepared, the Courier described non-evaporable getters used for its vacuum system.
Read article 'Cosmology comes of age'
The easy part is over experimental cosmology has now reached adulthood. That was the message that emerged from a workshop on cosmology and particle physics held at CERN this summer.
Read article 'How Borexino will stare at the Sun'
A new ultra-sensitive experiment to detect solar neutrinos is being built underground in Italy
Read article 'Nuclei as secret agents'
Experiments with CERN's on-line isotope separator (ISOLDE) have led to a novel way to probe the interface between magnetic and non-magnetic ultra-thin layers.
