Read article 'Neutrino mixing at Daya Bay'
Neutrino mixing at Daya Bay
The experiment is poised to investigate the least well known sector of the recently discovered phenomenon of neutrino mixing.
Read article 'Neutrino mixing at Daya Bay'
Read article 'Pierre Auger Observatory pinpoints source of mysterious highest-energy cosmic rays'
Pierre Auger Observatory pinpoints source of mysterious highest-energy cosmic rays
The Pierre Auger Collaboration has discovered that active galactic nuclei are the most likely candidate for the source of the ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays arriving on Earth.
Read article 'Astronomers detect mysterious phenomenon'
Astronomers detect mysterious phenomenon
Analysis of six-year old archival data of the Parkes radio telescope in Australia has revealed a giant burst of radio waves. Extremely bright, brief and distant, this unique event seems to come from a...
Read article 'FLASH makes laser pulses at design energy'
FLASH makes laser pulses at design energy
On the evening of 4 October, the team in the control room at FLASH, the soft X-ray, free-electron laser facility at DESY, observed lasing at a wavelength of 7 nm for the first time.
Read article 'AMS en route to outer space via CERN'
AMS en route to outer space via CERN
The central tracker detector of the Anti Matter Spectrometer (AMS) arrived at CERN on 25 September ready for assembly with the other components of the experiment.
Read article 'ATLAS installs the final big muon wheel'
ATLAS installs the final big muon wheel
The ATLAS collaboration recently celebrated installing the last of the eight "big wheels" that form part of the endcap muon spectrometer of the detector.
Read article 'DESY laboratory forms new research links with Russia'
DESY laboratory forms new research links with Russia
DESY and three Russian institutes will work together to resolve current questions in particle physics.
Read article 'Cyclotron lab reconfigures for better service'
Cyclotron lab reconfigures for better service
Following a summer shutdown, the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University is looking ahead to new experiments with fast and reaccelerated beams.
Read article '40 MHz ball reveals sticky fingers'
40 MHz ball reveals sticky fingers
The LHC, with its "two in one" magnet structure cooled by superfluid helium for operation at 1.9 K, is its own prototype.
Read article 'WMAP’s cold spot shows giant void in space'
WMAP’s cold spot shows giant void in space
An enormous void, nearly a thousand million light-years across, seems to be at the origin of a cold spot that the Wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe (WMAP) has found in the cosmic microwave backgrou...
