Read article 'GUINEVERE: towards cleaner nuclear energy'
GUINEVERE: towards cleaner nuclear energy
A particle accelerator has been successfully coupled to a nuclear reactor for the first time at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre.
Read article 'GUINEVERE: towards cleaner nuclear energy'
Read article 'Steps forward for new long-baseline experiment'
Steps forward for new long-baseline experiment
The collaboration working to design the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) in the US has recently made major decisions about the experimental configuration, while the collaboration itself contin...
Read article 'Planck reveals details across the Milky Way'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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 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'
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...
