Read article 'The ESA Planck spacecraft heads off to its final destination after successful launch'
Planck, ESA's new spacecraft to map the cosmic microwave background, successfully took its first steps into space on 14 May when it was launched together with the far-infrared space telescope Hersche...
Read article 'Element 112 receives official recognition'
Element 112, discovered at GSI Darmstadt, has been officially recognized as a new element by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
Read article 'LHC restart remains on schedule'
At the 151st session of the CERN Council on 19 June, director-general Rolf Heuer confirmed that the LHC remains on schedule for a restart this autumn, albeit about 2–3 weeks later than originally ...
Read article 'Knocking on the door again'
The LHC's anti-clockwise beam transfer system was tested on 6 and 7 June.
Read article 'GSI reveals new magic numbers in nuclei'
The shell structure of atomic nuclei with its magic numbers (2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126) for protons and neutrons corresponding to an enhanced binding is a cornerstone in understanding the structure an...
Read article 'CERN openlab enters phase three'
On 2–3 April CERN's director-general, Rolf Heuer, officially launched the third phase of the CERN openlab at the 2009 annual meeting of the CERN openlab Board of Sponsors.
Read article 'XMM-Newton observes emission from matter around a black hole'
A recent observation by the XMM-Newton satellite revealed two prominent emission lines in the X-ray spectrum of the Seyfert galaxy 1H 0707-495.
Read article 'KEKB breaks luminosity record'
A team working at the KEKB electron–positron collider at the KEK laboratory in Japan has broken the machine’s existing world record for luminosity by using new accelerator components calle...
Read article 'Final magnet for sector 3-4 goes underground'
The final magnet – a quadrupole short straight section – to refit sector 3-4 of the LHC was lowered into the tunnel and transported to its location on 30 April, two weeks after the 39th and fina...
Read article 'BEPCII/BESIII accumulates 100 million ψ(2S) in Beijing'
After five years of construction, the upgraded Beijing Electron–Positron Collider (BEPCII) and the new Beijing Spectrometer (BESIII) finished accumulating their first large data set of more than 100...
