Read article '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'
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'
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'
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'
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 and three Russian institutes will work together to resolve current questions in particle physics.
Read article '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'
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'
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...
Read article 'Fast fragmentation produces double firsts for exotic nuclei'
Studies of transition rates between excited states and ground states in these nuclei provide important information to test shell-model predictions.
