Read article 'Germany seeks to fulfil astroparticle aspirations'
Axel Lindner reports on the fourth biennial workshop about the status, perspectives and future prospects of research in the field of astroparticle physics in Germany.
Read article 'Meeting reviews progress towards the new BEPC'
A recent collaboration gathered to hear the latest news on the upgrades to the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider and to the Beijing Spectrometer.
Read article 'Le Globe de la science: un emblème pour le CERN'
Article about the CERN Globe of Science and innovation (in French).
Read article 'ICALEPCS 2005: Geneva'
In October 2005, control-systems experts from experimental facilities around the world met in Geneva for the EUROPHYSICS conference ICALEPCS 2005. Axel Daneels reports.
Read article 'Quarks matter in Budapest'
Quark Matter 2005, the 18th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus- Nucleus Collisions, provided a lively forum for new results in heavy-ion physics.
Read article 'Particles in Portugal: new high-energy physics results'
Europe's premier particle-physics conference took place in 2005 on the banks of the River Tagus, near Lisbon. Per Osland and Jorma Tuominiemi report.
Read article 'CERN’s low-energy frontier'
The recent NuPAC meeting at CERN provided an overview of the laboratory's present and future activities in nuclear astrophysics, nuclear-structure physics and related areas.
Read article 'PHYSTAT: making the most of statistical techniques'
Statistics has always been an essential tool in experimental particle physics, and today this is truer than ever. In the early days emulsions and bubble-chamber photographs were scanned slowly by hand...
Read article 'The future looks bright for particle channelling'
Techniques that make use of the ordered structure of a crystal lattice to manipulate particle beams are finding an increasing number of applications.
Read article 'Tokyo meeting focuses on nucleon-spin problem'
Quark spin, gluon spin and the orbital angular momenta of quarks and gluons can all contribute to nucleon spin, but which has the main role? Physicists met in Tokyo to discuss.
