Read article 'Team at ILL sets new limit on neutron’s EDM'
An experiment at the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL), Grenoble, has produced a new, tighter limit on the electric-dipole moment (EDM) of the neutron.
Read article 'Co-operation agreement strengthens CERN’s links with Cyprus'
On 14 February, the minister of finance of the Republic of Cyprus, Michalis Sarris, visited CERN, accompanied by a distinguished delegation, including Christos Schizas, the vice-rector of the Universi...
Read article 'Australian synchrotron shines new light in the Southern Hemisphere'
The Australian Synchrotron under construction in Melbourne is due to begin operation in April 2007.
Read article 'Mammography database targets breast cancer'
There would be great benefits if clinicians around the world could gain access to a common support resource in diagnosing breast cancer.
Read article 'Trieste seeks participants for new fourth-generation light source'
Sincrotrone Trieste has announced a call for letters of intent to participate in developing and using a new fourth-generation light source, FERMI@Elettra, operating alongside the present ELETTRA sourc...
Read article 'Astronomers find new class of neutron star'
An international team of astronomers using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia has detected very short radio flashes from 11 sources distributed in the plane of our galaxy. The isolated flash...
Read article 'Strategy Group sets future course'
The impressive breadth and depth of European particle physics was on display in Orsay, France, at an open symposium organized by the CERN Council Strategy Group at the end of January.
Read article 'CMS drift-tube chambers pass cosmic test'
The CMS collaboration has for the first time operated a whole sector of drift-tube chambers (DTCs) and detected cosmic muons
Read article 'Last major component installed at CNGS'
The magnetic system that focuses the beam of particles arising from the graphite target of the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso project (CNGS) has been installed in its final position in the tunnel.
Read article 'Silver isotope exhibits exotic radioactivity'
Since soon after its discovery by Henri Becquerel in 1896, radioactivity has been known to involve the emission of helium nuclei (alphas), electrons (betas) and photons (gammas).
