Read article 'Brilliant naked-eye GRB constrains theory'
GRB 080319B is the plain name for an extraordinary gamma-ray burst (GRB) that was so bright that it could be seen with the unaided eye for 30 s. The detailed observation of the prompt optica...
Read article 'DAMA strengthens claim of annual modulation with new intriguing evidence'
Nine years ago the DAMA collaboration announced intriguing evidence for an annual modulation in the signals in its detectors, which could be evidence of dark-matter particles in the galactic halo.
Read article 'EGEE steps up a gear with a third phase of Grid infrastructure'
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) is the largest multidisciplinary Grid infrastructure in the world, covering research fields from particle physics to biomedicine. Now the project has begun its thir...
Read article 'TRIUMF to establish Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research'
TRIUMF laboratory receives award from the Canadian government.
Read article '…while CMS completes crystal calorimeter'
The final crystals for the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) arrived from China and Russia at CERN in March, completing a mammoth production process nearly 10 years after the delivery of the fir...
Read article 'LHCb measures its first cosmic-ray muons…'
The LHCb team has for the first time measured cosmic rays passing through three of the experiment’s subdetectors simultaneously, selected by muon triggers.
Read article 'MICE beam takes its first steps'
The Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE) project, an accelerator research experiment for a major component of a future neutrino factory, has achieved an important milestone with the successful tr...
Read article 'WMAP 5-year results reveal neutrinos and tighten inflation'
After five years observing the oldest light in the universe, NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) is refining our understanding of the universe. It finds evidence for cosmic neutri...
Read article 'Particle physics proves that arsenic didn’t kill Napoleon'
A meticulous new examination performed at the INFN laboratories in Milano-Bicocca and Pavia in Italy has shown that arsenic poisoning did not kill Napoleon.
Read article 'Belle sees a difference in direct CP violation between charged and neutral B decays'
The Belle collaboration, working at the KEKB facility at KEK, has observed a difference in the direct CP asymmetry for decays of charged and neutral B mesons into a kaon and a pion. This res...
