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...
Read article 'Copernicium enters the periodic table'
On 12 July, a ceremony at GSI celebrated the entry of copernicium into the periodic table of elements with a symbolic christening for the new element.
Read article 'Multibunch injection provides a quick fill'
Beam commissioning at the LHC continues to result in increasing luminosity for the experiments.
Read article 'TOTEM sees elastic scattering and LHCf completes first run'
While the large experiments at the LHC have been collecting the first inverse picobarn of integrated luminosity at 7 TeV in the centre of mass, the two smaller experiments installed at the collider h...
Read article 'Herschel delivers first results'
The first scientific results obtained by the Herschel infrared observatory have been published in a special issue of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. Based on data collected during the first ...
Read article 'OPERA catches its first tau-neutrino'
The OPERA collaboration has announced the observation of the first candidate tau-neutrino in the muon-neutrino beam sent through the Earth from CERN to the INFN's Gran Sasso Laboratory 730 km away.
Read article 'DØ sees anomalous asymmetry in decays of B mesons'
The DØ collaboration at Fermilab has reported evidence of a violation of matter–antimatter symmetry ("CP symmetry") in the behaviour of neutral mesons containing b quarks.
