Read article 'CMS closes up for magnet test and cosmic challenge'
Members of the CMS collaboration have spent much of this year preparing for crucial tests before starting to lower the gigantic detector into the underground cavern in the autumn.
Read article 'Pisa pushes new frontiers'
The island of Elba, off the coast of Tuscany, hosted the 10th Pisa meeting on frontier detectors, a quarter of a century since the meetings began. Giorgio Chiarelli reports.
Read article 'ENLIGHT++ extends cancer therapy research network'
ENLIGHT++ étend le réseau de recherche sur le traitement du cancer par les ions légers La réunion préparatoire du réseau ENLIGHT++ s’est tenue au CERN en mars, rass...
Read article 'Nobel inspiration: a passion for precision'
Carolyn Lee talks to Theodor Hänsch, who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy.
Read article 'CLEO cleans up below the charm threshold'
The charmonium spectrum provides fertile ground for investigating the force that binds quarks together, and the CLEO detector is revealing some previously missing states, as David Cassel and Jonathan ...
Read article 'Micro-pattern technology gets set for more challenges'
A recent meeting at CERN reviewed the progress in the development of micro-pattern gas detectors for current and future particle-physics experiments.
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.
