Read article 'Chandra improves dark-energy constraints'
Evidence that the nature of dark energy is a cosmological constant is gathering strength. By adding independent constraints on dark energy from X-ray observations of clusters of galaxies by the Chandr...
Read article 'Breaking ground for Linac 4'
Civil engineering work has started on Linac 4, a major new renovation project for the CERN accelerator complex.
Read article 'Brookhaven finds more rare kaon decays'
The E949 collaboration at Brookhaven National Laboratory has observed three new events of the rare kaon decay.
Read article 'New training PARTNERship joins the battle against cancer'
On 16–17 October members of a new four-year, EU-funded project met at CERN for the kick-off meeting of the Particle Training Network for European Radiotherapy (PARTNER)
Read article 'EC funds design study for gravitational observatory'
The European Commission (EC) has allocated €3 million within the Seventh Framework Programme for preliminary studies for the development of the Einstein Telescope – a major new gravitational-wave...
Read article 'Fermi discovers a gamma-ray-only pulsar'
The first highlight of the recently launched Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope is the discovery of a new type of object: a gamma-ray pulsar without detectable pulsations at radio, optical or X-ray wavel...
Read article 'INTEGRAL pinpoints acceleration'
The discovery with ESA’s International Gamma-ray Astronomical Laboratory (INTEGRAL) satellite that the gamma-ray emission of the Crab Nebula is strongly polarized along the direction of its spin axi...
Read article 'DOE approves 12 GeV upgrade for CEBAF'
Jefferson Lab received approval to begin construction upgrade to the 12 GeV CEBAF
Read article 'JINST provides open access to LHC articles'
Seven major articles on the LHC and its detectors have been published electronically in a special issue of the Journal of Instrumentation (JINST).
Read article 'ASPERA names its magnificent seven'
In the same room that hosted the first Solvay conference in 1911 at the Hotel Metropôle in Brussels, on 29–30 September the AStro Particle ERAnet (ASPERA) network presented the European strategy f...
