Read article 'FLASH is in full swing again'
On 2 September, user operation resumed at the FLASH free-electron laser (FEL) at DESY in Hamburg after a major upgrade that boosted its energy to 1.2 GeV and its wavelength to 4.45 nm.
Read article 'PETRA III begins research operations'
DESY’s new X-ray source, PETRA III, has begun operating for the international scientific community, with the first external users welcomed at the third-generation synchrotron source.
Read article 'WMO and WIPO sign co-operation agreements with CERN'
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), both based in Geneva, have signed co-operation agreements with CERN.
Read article 'JINR and CERN begin a new phase of collaboration'
Equipment destined for a new project at JINR, Dubna, has been shipped from CERN.
Read article 'CLIC/CTF3 goes truly global'
The agreement, which is an addendum to the standard CLIC/CTF3 memorandum of understanding, specifies the contribution of ACAS to the CLIC/CTF3 Collaboration.
Read article 'Cosmic accelerators may be at work in the Milky Way'
Measurements by the Pierre Auger Observatory may provide evidence of natural nuclear accelerators at work in the local galaxy, the Milky Way.
Read article 'Colliding galaxies formed giant black holes'
Like Ben Johnson’s explosive jump out of the starting blocks for 100 m, the growth of supermassive black holes had a “jump start” in the early universe. What triggered this fast...
Read article 'LHC results top the bill in Paris'
More than 1100 physicists gathered in the Palais des Congrès conference centre in Paris on 22–28 July to attend the 35th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP), the world's large...
Read article 'IUPAP working group organizes two-day international symposium on plans for worldwide nuclear physics'
A two-day Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Physics Facilities, held at TRIUMF on 2–3 July, provided the opportunity for proponents of nuclear science across the world to learn about and dis...
Read article 'Electrons signal a world first for EMMA'
On Tuesday 22 June at 10.37 p.m. an electron beam passed for the first time through four sectors of EMMA, the prototype that has been built at the UK's Daresbury Laboratory to test the concept of th...
