Read article 'Gravitational lensing constrains cosmology'
When two sources at various distances happen to be aligned on the line of sight, the gravitational field of the nearer galaxy distorts the image of the distant galaxy into multiple arc-shaped images (...
Read article 'Romania takes first steps to join CERN'
On 11 February the Romanian minister of education, research, youth and sport, Daniel Petru Funeriu, and CERN’s director-general, Rolf Heuer, signed an agreement that formally recognizes Romania as ...
Read article 'CERN prepares for long 7 TeV run'
The Chamonix workshop, held on 25–29 January, once again proved its worth as a place where all of the stakeholders in the LHC can come together, take difficult decisions and reach a consensus on im...
Read article 'CDF and DØ joint paper puts a further squeeze on the Higgs'
Almost a decade after the experiments at CERN’s Large Electron–Positron (LEP) collider set a limit on the mass of the Higgs boson of 114.4 GeV/c2, the two experiments at Fermilab’s Tevatron, CD...
Read article 'Workshop pushes proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration'
PPA09, a workshop held at CERN on proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration, has launched discussions about a first demonstration experiment using a proton beam.
Read article 'SN 2009bb: where are the gamma rays?'
Long-duration gamma-ray bursts are associated with peculiar supernova explosions and a long-lived radio afterglow emission has been detected for some of them. So the discovery of relativistic radio ej...
Read article 'AGILE and Fermi see a flaring microquasar'
The two currently operating high-energy gamma-ray satellites have both detected Cygnus X-3 (Cyg X-3) during episodes of strong radio flaring. These first detections of a genuine microquasar in our gal...
Read article 'BELLA will boost plasma accelerator research'
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is set to explore further the high-gradient acceleration of electron beams using ultra-short pulse lasers with the construction of a new facility – BELLA, the B...
Read article 'Extreme light rises in Eastern Europe'
A new international player has entered the arena of intense short-pulse coherent light technology, with the latest developments in the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) European project, which was la...
Read article 'Ten nations sign up for European XFEL project'
On 30 November, representatives from Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, the Slovak Republic, Sweden and Switzerland signed the "Convention concerning the Construction and Opera...
