Read article 'Key piece for gamma-ray burst puzzle'
A peculiar gamma-ray burst has been detected by ESA’s INTEGRAL gamma-ray mission. This sub-energetic burst makes the link between an earlier anomalous event and all other bursts detected so far....
Read article 'Aymar outlines new seven-point strategy'
CERN's director-general Robert Aymar presented a seven-point scientific strategy for the organization at the 128th session of the CERN Council on 18 June.
Read article 'Experiments pass the one-hundred mark'
A decade after achieving its first beam, the US Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility completed data collection on its 100th and 101st experiments.
Read article 'SELEX finds a new charm-strange meson'
A new narrow charm-strange meson - a charm quark bound with a strange antiquark - has been found by the SELEX experiment at Fermilab.
Read article 'D0 sharpens its top-quark measurement'
The D0 collaboration at Fermilab has applied a new technique for measuring the mass of the top quark that yields a more precise result than previously.
Read article 'B-factory improvements deliver 1 fb-1 a day to Belle'
This peak luminosity is equivalent to the production of 14 B-meson - anti-B-meson pairs every second, and Belle is now accumulating approximately one million B pairs every day.
Read article 'Latest K2K results support neutrino oscillations'
K2K, the KEK to Kamioka long-baseline neutrino-oscillation experiment, has announced results based on data collected from the start-up in 1998 through to February 2004.
Read article 'X-ray constraints on dark energy'
The existence and nature of dark energy has been probed using images of galaxy clusters obtained by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. These results are completely independent from the previous s...
Read article 'CDMS II narrows search for WIMPs'
With the first data from their underground observatory in northern Minnesota, the scientists of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) have peered with greater sensitivity than ever before into the s...
Read article 'BEPC stops running and begins major upgrade programme'
With the blow of a whistle at 8 a.m. on 30 April, the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC) finished running and the installation of its major upgrade, BEPCII, began.
