Read article 'Open-access moves ahead for physics'
Eighty representatives from several major physics publishers, European particle-physics laboratories, learned societies, funding agencies and authors from Europe and the US met at CERN on 7-8 December...
Read article 'Super-Kamiokande gets full refit'
Operation of the Super-Kamiokande (SK) II detector in Japan was terminated last October after three years of running to begin a full restoration of the detector.
Read article 'Belle achieves new luminosity record'
By mid-afternoon on 22 November, the Belle experiment at KEK had accumulated an integrated luminosity of 500 fb-1 of electron-positron collision data.
Read article 'Superconducting RF technology forum unites research and industry'
Representatives from European research and industry have established the European Industry Forum for Accelerators with Superconducting RF Technology, EIFast.
Read article 'HERA hits record annual luminosity'
In its 2005 run, DESY's HERA collider achieved the largest integrated luminosity it has ever produced in one year.
Read article 'Auger observatory celebrates progress'
On 10 November, the Pierre Auger Observatory (PAO) began a major two-day celebration at its headquarters in Malargüe, Argentina, to mark the progress of the observatory and the presentation of the fi...
Read article 'INTEGRAL reveals Milky Ways’ supernova rate'
One supernova explosion every 50 years in our galaxy: that is the rate that a European team has determined from the observations of ESA's INTEGRAL gamma-ray satellite. This figure is based on the amo...
Read article 'Homestake poised to become a goldmine for scientific research'
A new frontier in experimental science was crossed in October when the state of South Dakota committed $20 million to pave the way for its acquisition and conversion of the Homestake Mine into a multi...
Read article 'NSRRC operates in top-up mode'
On 12 October the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC), Taiwan, became the fourth synchrotron facility in the world to operate fully in top-up mode, joining the Swiss Light Source (S...
Read article 'SNS reaches major milestone on journey to completion next June'
The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the US Department of Energy (DOE) has met a crucial milestone on its way to completion in June 2006 - operation of th...
