Read article 'CERN announces new date for LHC start-up…'
Speaking at the 142nd session of the CERN Council on 22 June, CERN’s director-general, Robert Aymar, announced that the LHC will start up in May 2008, taking the first steps towards studying physic...
Read article 'Astronomers discover Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone'
A rocky planet only five times the mass of the Earth was discovered around the nearby low-mass star Gliese 581. This is the most Earth-like planet known to date and furthermore its orbit is at th...
Read article 'Symmetry breaking on a supercomputer'
The Japan Lattice QCD Collaboration has used numerical simulations to reproduce spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking (SCSB) in quantum chromodynamics (QCD).
Read article 'Bent silicon crystal deflects 400 GeV proton beam at the Super Proton Synchrotron'
A team working at CERN has detected the phenomenon of volume reflection using bent silicon crystals with a 400 GeV proton beam at the Super Proton Synchrotron. The efficiency achieved was greater th...
Read article 'THEMIS spacecraft take thin-contact silicon into orbit'
Particle detectors developed for high-energy and nuclear physics often find uses in many other fields. Now silicon detectors with thin entrance contacts have been launched into space aboard the five s...
Read article 'The last module of LHCb’s VELO arrives'
After 10 years of hard work the last of the 42 modules for the LHCb Vertex Locator (VELO) arrived at CERN in early March.
Read article 'The Inner Tracking System arrives at the heart of ALICE'
On 15 March 100 physicists and engineers gathered in the ALICE underground cavern to witness the end of a 15 year journey of development, construction, commissioning and testing before the Inner Tr...
Read article 'CMS celebrates the arrival of the last crystals'
The last of the 62,960 lead tungstate crystals arrived at CERN on 9 March, marking the end of a 15 year project for the CMS experiment and the Crystal Clear Collaboration.
Read article 'The last dipole makes its descent'
On 26 April, the last superconducting magnet for the LHC descended into the accelerator tunnel.
Read article 'First LHC sector reaches 1.9 K'
The first sector of the LHC to be cooled reached its operating temperature of 1.9 K for the first time on 10 April.
