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).
Read article 'CERN consolidates links with Pakistan'
On 25 January Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan, visited CERN with five government ministers, Parvez Butt, president of Pakistan's Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), and an eminent former preside...
Read article 'Going beyond the Standard Model'
A five-part workshop has been launched at CERN to study the interplay between the physics of particle flavour and the physics achievable at particle colliders.
Read article 'Microlensing detects most Earth-like exoplanet'
A planet of a mass of only about five times that of the Earth has been discovered at a distance of about 20,000 light years, not far from the centre of the Milky Way. It circles its parent low-mass st...
Read article 'LHC’s installation makes progress'
CERN's director-general, Robert Aymar praised the immense progress made towards the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project when he addressed the 135th session of the CERN Council on 16 December 2005.
