Read article 'Herschel favours quiet galaxy build-up theory'
Did most galaxies form their stars through violent and tumultuous merging events or via more steady and gentle processes? A study of deep-field observations by the Herschel Space Observatory favours a...
Read article 'Daya Bay experiment begins taking data'
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has begun its quest to answer some of the puzzling questions that still remain about neutrinos.
Read article 'ALICE measures the shape of
head-on lead–lead collisions'
One the many surprises to have emerged from studies of heavy-ion collisions at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and now at CERN's LHC concerns the extreme fluidity of the dense matt...
Read article 'Lepton Photon goes to Mumbai'
The global nature of modern particle physics was clearly manifest at the biennial Lepton Photon conference that took place this year in India.
Read article 'LHC@home 2.0 attracts massive support'
The public launch in August of a new application for CERN's volunteer-computing platform LHC@home produced an overwhelming response.
Read article 'LHCb pins down the Bs mixing phase'
The LHCb collaboration's presentation at Lepton Photon 2011 included one of the most eagerly awaited measurements in flavour physics.
Read article 'Top precision at ATLAS'
Measurements of top-quark properties were among the many new results shown by the ATLAS collaboration at Lepton-Photon 2011.
Read article 'CMS updates its Higgs search'
The CMS search for the Higgs boson is being carried out using a range of decay products: two photons; two τ leptons; two b quarks; two W bosons; and two Z bosons.
Read article 'ν–ν̅ mass difference lessens'
One of last year's surprise results came from the MINOS (Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search) experiment in the US, which suggested that neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts, antineutrino...
Read article 'A diamond planet is found around a pulsar'
“Remember when you were young, you shone like the Sun”, opens the famous song Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Written as a tribute to Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd’s lead musician until 1975, ...
