Read article 'AMS takes off'
AMS takes off
The space shuttle Endeavour launched successfully on its 25th and final spaceflight on 16 May at 08.56 a.m. local time.
Read article 'AMS takes off'
Read article 'LHCf measures very forward photons'
LHCf measures very forward photons
The LHCf collaboration has measured the production spectrum of photons using the highest-energy accelerator beams in the world, at CERN’s LHC machine.
Read article 'CMS measures single-top production at 7 TeV'
CMS measures single-top production at 7 TeV
The top quark was first observed in the mid-1990s by the CDF and DØ experiments at the Tevatron collider at Fermilab.
Read article 'ATLAS explores new frontiers with high-pT jet measurements'
ATLAS explores new frontiers with high-pT jet measurements
The ATLAS collaboration has announced its latest cross-section measurements of inclusive jet and dijet production, which involve final states containing at least one or two jets, respectively.
Read article 'RHIC reveals heaviest antimatter'
RHIC reveals heaviest antimatter
Members of the international STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory have observed antihelium-4.
Read article 'Italy approves long-term funding for the SuperB project'
Italy approves long-term funding for the SuperB project
The Italian government has approved the long-term funding of the SuperB project.
Read article 'Gravity Probe B confirms Einstein’s general relativity'
Gravity Probe B confirms Einstein’s general relativity
The final results of the Gravity Probe B (GP-B) satellite confirm two key predictions of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity: the geodetic and frame-dragging effects. The precise dete...
Read article 'A world first for EMMA'
A world first for EMMA
At the end of March, an electron beam was steered round the ring of a new type of particle accelerator and successfully accelerated to 18 MeV for the first time.
Read article 'Earthquake in Japan'
Earthquake in Japan
People around the world were deeply saddened to learn of the devastation caused by the major earthquake and the related tsunami on Friday 11 March in northern Japan.
Read article 'ALICE collaboration measures the size of the fireball in heavy-ion collisions'
ALICE collaboration measures the size of the fireball in heavy-ion collisions
The ALICE collaboration has measured the size of the pion-emitting system in central lead–ion collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair.
