Read article 'Swift witnesses a black hole devouring a star'
Follow-up observations of an apparently normal gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected by NASA’s Swift satellite have identified the event as a star being ripped apart by a massive black hole in a distan...
Read article 'LHC sets world record beam intensity'
Just before midnight on 21 April, the LHC set a new world record for beam intensity.
Read article '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 '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'
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'
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'
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'
The Italian government has approved the long-term funding of the SuperB project.
Read article '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'
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.
