Read article 'Pomerons return to Blois'
Pomerons return to Blois
Pomeron physics and QCD met once again at the XIth International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering: Towards High Energy Frontiers.
Read article 'Pomerons return to Blois'
Read article 'George Placzek – an unsung hero of physics'
George Placzek – an unsung hero of physics
Jan Fischer describes the life and work of the Czech physicist, born in 1905, who made important contributions to nuclear physics in the 1930s-1940s.
Read article 'Conference brings Einstein to Tennessee'
Conference brings Einstein to Tennessee
This year's major accelerator conference covered impressive progress in the field, and featured events celebrating the World Year of Physics. Norbert Holtkamp reports.
Read article 'Slow antiprotons galore'
Slow antiprotons galore
A workshop in Japan in the spring looked at how to make and use beams of ultra-slow antiprotons over a wide range of physics.
Read article 'Antiproton physics takes another big LEAP forward'
Antiproton physics takes another big LEAP forward
The latest in the Low Energy Antiproton Physics series of conferences in Bonn showed that this field of research is increasingly vibrant and exciting, as Walter Oelert describes.
Read article 'Berkeley plans CIRCE to fill the terahertz gap'
Berkeley plans CIRCE to fill the terahertz gap
A machine has been proposed at Berkeley that would provide radiation at terahertz frequencies, a valuable source for research.
Read article 'Lattice QCD and CLEO-c tackle the CP challenge'
Lattice QCD and CLEO-c tackle the CP challenge
New results presented at Lepton-Photon 2005 provide important tests of the predictive powers of lattice calculations of parameters vital in the study of CP violation.
Read article 'Fred Hoyle: pioneer in nuclear astrophysics'
Fred Hoyle: pioneer in nuclear astrophysics
Fred Hoyle, who died in 2001, is best known as a cosmologist. But, as Simon Mitton relates, his career in physics began with the weak interaction and moved on to a crucial discovery in nuclear physics...
Read article 'Thinking big: the next generation of detectors'
Thinking big: the next generation of detectors
The conference on the Next Generation of Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors looked at the development of new, large-scale detectors. Alain de Bellefon reports.
Read article '40 great years of the Rencontres de Moriond'
40 great years of the Rencontres de Moriond
"Theorists and experimenters must listen to each other." This leitmotif inspired the first Rencontres de Moriond in 1966, and it was just as relevant at this year's event.
