Read article 'Planck reveals details across the Milky Way'
While awaiting the Planck mission results on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the scientific community must be content with measurements on foreground sources. Those are nevertheless providing i...
Read article 'Cornell sprints past milestones towards hard X-ray source'
Synchrotron X-ray sources have become essential tools across the sciences, medicine and engineering.
Read article 'Results from SPIN@COSY may bode well for RHIC'
These results may help to increase the polarization in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven when it is used as a 250 GeV/c polarized proton collider
Read article 'EXPLORER’s life comes to a fruitful end'
After 20 years of continuous operation, the EXPLORER gravitational-wave detector has come to the end of its long life as an experiment and left CERN.
Read article 'Experiment recreates ‘seeds’ of the universe’s magnetic fields'
How did magnetic fields arise in the universe? An experiment using a high-power laser to create plasma instabilities may have glimpsed the processes that created magnetic fields during the period of g...
Read article 'Looking at the top for new physics'
The CMS collaboration has now measured this top-quark property for the first time at the LHC – and finds a different result that the one found at Fermilab.
Read article 'The hunt for long-lived exotic beasts'
The hunt for exotic massive long-lived particles is an important element in the ATLAS collaboration’s programme of searches.
Read article 'Einstein ring reveals dwarf dark-matter galaxy'
If a remote galaxy is located exactly behind another galaxy then it can be seen deformed by gravitational lensing as an “Einstein ring”. The careful analysis of such an effect has recently...
Read article 'Council solicits opinion to chart the future of European particle physics'
During its December meetings, CERN Council announced that an Open Symposium will be held in Cracow on 10–13 September 2012 for the purpose of updating the European Strategy for Particle Physics.
Read article 'Serbia set to join CERN as associate member state'
At its 161st meeting at CERN on 16 December, the CERN Council unanimously voted to admit the Republic of Serbia to associate membership as the pre-stage to membership of CERN.
