Read article 'Rewards for optics in theory and practice'
The 2005 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to three physicists working in the field of optics, in recognition of past advances in the understanding of light as well as the present-day potential ...
Read article 'Barish presents plans for the ILC'
The schedule of the Global Design Effort (GDE) for the future International Linear Collider (ILC) was an important topic at the meeting in September of CERN's Scientific Policy Committee.
Read article 'KEDR adds new precision to meson mass measurements'
In October 2005 the VEPP-4M collider at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics started its latest run with the KEDR detector.
Read article 'VLT astronomers discover new population of distant galaxies'
A team using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has identified a much larger population of distant galaxies than previously estimated. The new population mainly ...
Read article 'MAGIC and Swift capture GRB'
The MAGIC telescope observed a gamma-ray burst seconds after its explosion was detected by NASA's Swift satellite.
Read article 'CERN and Poland sign agreement'
On 29 July, the rector of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, and CERN's director-general, Robert Aymar, signed a collaboration agreement relating to the comm...
Read article 'Neutrino project on target for Gran Sasso'
The CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso project (CNGS) has reached an important milestone with the successful first assembly of the target in a laboratory on the surface
Read article 'ITEP gives scintillation counters new START'
Scintillation counters, with their simplicity and fast response, have been the quintessential tool for triggering in particle physics since they were first coupled with photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) so...
Read article 'German Chancellor starts up DESY’s free-electron laser'
Gerhard Schröder handed DESY's new vacuum-ultraviolet free-electron laser, VUV-FEL, over to the scientists.
Read article 'BES collaboration observes possible baryonium state'
In a sample of 58 million J/ψ events, the BES collaboration at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC) has found a clear signal (7.7σ statistical significance) for a new resonance, the X(1835)...
