Read article 'Particle physics in the UK is facing a severe funding crisis'
The UK increased an additional £1200 m in the budget for science but this leads to a deficit of £80 in particle physics.
Read article 'Superstrings reveal the interior structure of a black hole'
A research group at KEK has succeeded in calculating the state inside a black hole using computer simulations based on superstring theory.
Read article 'The team at SPIN@COSY looks inside a spin resonance'
The SPIN@COSY polarized-beam team has found striking new results while studying the spin-manipulation of polarized deuterons at the Cooler Synchrotron (COSY) at the Forschungszentrum in Jülich.
Read article 'Hot plasma fills the Orion nebula'
Observations with the XMM-Newton satellite have revealed soft X-ray emission from an extended region in the Orion nebula. The most massive stars in the heart of the nebula are probably at the origin o...
Read article 'ASACUSA moves towards new antihydrogen experiments'
Recently, the Japanese–European group made the first steps towards producing a low-velocity antihydrogen beam.
Read article 'Camera captures image of two-proton decay'
In work that harks back to the early days of nuclear physics, an international team of researchers at Michigan State University's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) has used a novel ...
Read article 'Lead ions knock at the LHC’s door'
There was jubilation in the CERN Control Centre late in the afternoon on 12 November.
Read article 'Belle Collaboration discovers new meson'
The Belle collaboration at KEK has recently announced the discovery of an exotic new particle with non-zero electric charge. This particle, which the researchers have named the Z(4430), does not fit i...
Read article 'CERN installs giant CMS tracking detector'
The world's largest silicon tracking detector is now in its final location in the CMS detector at CERN.
Read article 'UK and US announce budget bombshells for particle physics'
Within one week in December 2007, particle physicists in the UK and the US received unexpectedly bad budget news, which rocked the two communities.
