Read article 'Double dose of magic proves key to element production'
Researchers at Michigan State University's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) have reported the first measurement of the half-life of nickel-78.
Read article 'Mystery deepens as pentaquarks refuse to make an appearance'
Preliminary data on the hot topic of the search for pentaquarks were presented at the April Meeting of the American Physical Society by the Jefferson Laboratory's CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (...
Read article 'EU decides on the future of research'
On 20 April Europe's seven major intergovernmental research organizations, working together in the EIROforum partnership, presented their comprehensive paper on science policy, "Towards a Europe of Kn...
Read article 'Neutral Atom Trap at TRIUMF places best limits on scalar bosons'
"Table-top" experiments can still probe physics complementary to particle searches at high-energy accelerators. A beta-neutrino correlation experiment using TRIUMF's Neutral Atom Trap (TRINAT) has now...
Read article 'Giant flare illuminates the Earth'
On 27 December 2004, one day after the devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the Earth was illuminated by the biggest splash of light ever recorded from outside the solar system. For 0.2 s, th...
Read article 'MICE project gets the green light'
On 21 March, the UK's science and innovation minister announced the approval and funding of the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment, MICE, at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL).
Read article 'Model suggests dark energy is an illusion'
Arguably the most fascinating question in modern cosmology is why the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.
Read article 'RHIC groups serve up ‘perfect’ liquid'
The four detector groups conducting research at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have announced results indicating that they have observed a state of ho...
Read article 'Belle discovers yet more new particles'
The vast amounts of accumulated data have helped another important aspect of Belle's physics programme: the discovery of new particle states in the charm sector.
Read article 'TWIST tests the Standard Model'
Normal muon decay is an ideal process to investigate the electroweak interaction in the Standard Model.
