Read article 'PAEC chairman pays visit to CERN'
PAEC chairman pays visit to CERN
Parvez Butt, chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), visited CERN on 15 October.
Read article 'PAEC chairman pays visit to CERN'
Read article 'Auger ready for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays'
Auger ready for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays
With the completion of its 100th surface detector at the end of October, the Pierre Auger Observatory became the largest cosmic-ray air-shower array in the world.
Read article 'INTEGRAL discovers hidden black holes'
INTEGRAL discovers hidden black holes
INTEGRAL, the powerful gamma-ray space telescope, has discovered what seems to be a new class of astronomical objects. These are binary systems, probably including a black hole or a neutron star, embe...
Read article 'Superconductivity links physics and medicine'
Superconductivity links physics and medicine
The 2003 Nobel prizes in physics and physiology or medicine both have connections with the field of particle physics.
Read article 'SNO gets results with a large pinch of salt'
SNO gets results with a large pinch of salt
New results from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) are beginning to pin down more precisely the parameters for mixing between different types of neutrino.
Read article 'Laser ion source heads for new life'
Laser ion source heads for new life
On 22 August the last of three Russian trucks left CERN for Moscow carrying, as a long-term loan, a laser ion source in 93 boxes with a total volume of 150 cubic meters and a weight of 42 tonnes.
Read article 'A heavy load arrives for ALICE'
A heavy load arrives for ALICE
On 25 September the two large coils for the ALICE dipole magnet arrived at Point 2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) after a 1200 km journey from their manufacturer.
Read article 'Narrow states abound at HADRON 2003'
Narrow states abound at HADRON 2003
Aschaffenburg, a medieval town near Frankfurt in Germany, was the attractive setting for the 10th International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, held from 31 August to 6 September.
Read article 'Evidence for spinning black holes in our galaxy'
Evidence for spinning black holes in our galaxy
Do all black holes spin? How fast do they spin? The most detailed studies of stellar black holes to date by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton sate...
Read article 'Industry delivers LHC dipole coils'
Industry delivers LHC dipole coils
An important milestone has been passed in the manufacture of the magnets for CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
