Read article 'The NSS/MIC conference: a global meeting place'
The IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference provides a unique - and increasingly popular - annual event for scientists and engineers to come together to review progress in detect...
Read article 'A machine for learning'
Ilan Ben-Zvi describes Brookhaven's facility for long-term R&D in advanced accelerator physics, which he directed until recently.
Read article 'The new transversity council of Trento'
A recent workshop on new developments in nucleon spin structure, held at the ECT* in Trento, revived memories of the famous Council of Trento of 1530.
Read article 'Digging deep in the High Tatras mountains'
The latest in the DIS series of workshops looked at probing the proton to reveal more about quantum chromodynamics.
Read article 'The high-intensity frontier'
A high-intensity proton accelerator operating at a few giga-electron-volts would offer a wide range of opportunities for both particle and nuclear physics.
Read article 'Computing at CERN: the mainframe era'
Chris Jones takes a look back at the heyday of the computer mainframe through a selection of "memory bytes".
Read article 'Hands across the Mediterranean'
Scientists from North Africa, the Middle East and Europe came together in a meeting at CERN to discuss common projects in fields varying from particle physics to water desalination. Robert Klapisch re...
Read article 'When quarks and gluons become free'
Recent results and future experiments were the topics in a workshop to look into exactly what happens as strongly interacting matter becomes deconfined.
Read article 'Cryogenic operations come in from the cold'
A recent meeting at Jefferson Lab has inaugurated a new biennial workshop on reducing operating costs and increasing stability and reliability in a new generation of refrigeration plants for supercond...
Read article 'A marriage of pixels and proportional counters'
Different technologies come together in the gas pixel detector, a device that for the first time brings very high resolving power to gas detectors, as Ronaldo Bellazzini explains.
