Read article 'PS and SPS accelerators are back in business'
After a year of renovation and construction, CERN's accelerator complex is once again beginning to deliver different beams at a variety of energies.
Read article 'High schools focus on the extreme universe'
James Pinfold reports on the large number of projects that are forging a connection between research in ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and practical scientific experience in schools.
Read article 'Relativity on a mountain'
Alan Walker describes how a schoolgirl from Scotland used steel and scintillator to test Einstein's special theory of relativity.
Read article 'The world’s biggest neutrino detector gets ready for physics'
After a successful construction season over the Austral summer at the South Pole, the IceCube detector array is now preparing to tackle real physics. Spencer Klein reports.
Read article 'Closed-loop technology speeds up beam control'
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermilab and CERN have together developed a feedback-control system that is already speeding up operations at RHIC and should prove invaluable in commissioning the LHC....
Read article 'Prague meeting focuses on colliders and cosmic rays'
The C2CR meeting in Prague targeted the interface between cosmic-ray physics and the current and future results from accelerators and colliders.
Read article 'HERMES looks for final pieces in nucleon-spin puzzle'
Having successfully fulfilled its mission to track down the quark contribution to the nucleon's spin, HERMES now aims at providing an even more complete picture of nucleon spin.
Read article 'The HERMES gas target: 10 years on'
Erhard Steffens describes the various phases in a successful decade of operation of the HERMES gas target, which may live on with future use for antiproton polarization.
Read article 'Nucleon form factors stride into the future'
At a three-day meeting at Frascati, physicists from around the world met to discuss the implications of striking new results on the nucleon space-like and time-like form factors.
Read article 'JINR celebrates 50 years'
The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research celebrates its 50th anniversary as a renowned international intergovernmental scientific research organisation.
