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.
Read article 'Tungsten-crystal target boosts positron intensity at KEKB linac'
A new tungsten monocrystalline positron target has generated an intense positron beam at the injector linac of the KEK B-factory (KEKB).
Read article 'Serendipity at the Antiproton Decelerator opens the way to new antiproton chemistry'
Most experiments at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN involve laser or microwave studies of atoms such as antiprotonic helium and antihydrogen.
Read article 'CDF collaboration finds new baryons that contain b quarks'
Researchers at the Tevatron at Fermilab have found two new heavy particles and two of their excited states.
