Read article 'Subaru finds most distant galaxy'
Japanese astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii have detected the most distant known galaxy in the universe. Light from this source was emitted 780 million years after the Big Bang, at ...
Read article 'OPERA experiment detects first neutrinos in beam from CERN'
For the first time, on 18 August, the OPERA detector in the Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy recorded the interactions of neutrinos sent from CERN, 732 km away.
Read article 'CMS magnet reaches full field after eight years of construction'
The world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet, built for the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), reached full field on 28 August.
Read article 'Two inner detectors move into place at the heart of ATLAS'
After years of design, construction and commissioning, the two outer detectors – the transition radiation tracker (TRT) and the semiconductor tracker (SCT) – of the inner detector barrel were move...
Read article 'LHCb installs bridge and beampipe section…'
The last large component of the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment has descended into the cavern on the LHC ring, and the delicate installation of the important beryllium vacuum chambers h...
Read article '…while ALICE installs the first detectors'
In mid-July, the ALICE Collaboration reached important milestones with the installation of the trigger and tracking chambers of the muon spectrometer.
Read article 'FLASH breaks more records and reaches the water window'
Using the Free-electron LASer in Hamburg (FLASH), DESY has established a new world record, generating pulses of laser light at wavelengths between 13.5 and 13.8 nm with an average power of 10 mW and...
Read article 'US team finds direct proof for dark matter'
The idea of dark matter in the universe dates back to the 1930s, with the observation that the gravitational force on the visible matter in clusters of galaxies could not fully account for their behav...
Read article 'Metallic water becomes even more accessible'
Water is well known for its astonishing range of unusual properties, and now Thomas Mattsson and Michael Desjarlais of Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico have suggested yet another one.
Read article 'Supernova follows X-ray flash'
Astronomers have reached another milestone in the understanding of gamma-ray bursts by observing a supernova at the location of an X-ray flash that was detected by NASA’s Swift spacecraft. The s...
