Read article 'Gravitational waves could probe inflation'
“In the beginning was the Word,” opens the gospel of John, and this finds some resonance in the possibility of detecting gravitational waves from the Big Bang itself at frequencies typical...
Read article 'LHC on course for 2007 start-up'
As the final countdown begins towards the scheduled start-up of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN later this year, work on the machine and the experiments has seen a series of achievements during the ...
Read article 'Scientists at the D0 experiment discover new path to the top'
On 8 December, scientists from the D0 experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron announced the first evidence for top quarks produced singly, rather than in pairs.
Read article 'BEPCII makes progress towards switch-on'
The BEPCII project, a major upgrade and natural extension of the Beijing Electron–Positron Collider (BEPC), has passed an important milestone with beam now circulating in the outer ring and the sync...
Read article 'X-ray laser pulses light up the nano-world'
An international team of scientists using the soft X-ray free-electron laser FLASH at DESY has achieved a world first by taking a high-resolution diffraction image of a non-crystalline sample with one...
Read article 'GEM structure makes self-portrait'
In 1996 Fabio Sauli at CERN introduced the gas electron multiplier (GEM) – a new idea for gas amplification in particle detection.
Read article 'NSCL reveals plans for $500 million upgrade'
A detailed white paper published on 7 December outlines plans for a capability upgrade of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) located at Michigan State University.
Read article '3D map reveals distribution of dark matter'
Making a map of something that cannot be seen directly seems almost impossible, but it has been achieved by a wide international collaboration analysing a huge set of observations gathered by the Hubb...
Read article 'ALICE forges ahead with detector installation'
When it starts up the ALICE experiment will observe collisions of heavy ions in CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where "fireballs" of extremely hot and dense matter will be fleetingly made.
Read article 'Antiprotons could help fight against cancer'
A pioneering experiment at CERN with potential for cancer therapy has produced its first results.
