Read article 'HESS detects mysterious high-energy sources in the Milky Way'
The first detailed image of the central part of our galaxy at very-high-energy gamma rays shows several sources.
Read article 'First dipole descends to LHC'
On 7 March the first of the superconducting dipole magnets for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), under construction at CERN, was lowered into the accelerator tunnel.
Read article 'B-factory achieves record luminosity'
On 19 February the Belle experiment running at Japan's KEKB accelerator, the KEK B-factory, accumulated a record integrated luminosity in a single day.
Read article 'Russian team builds biggest MDT chambers for muon spectrometer'
The Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Protvino, Russia, is producing some of the largest and most challenging chambers for the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS detector at CERN
Read article 'Tsunami earthquake detected in ATLAS cavern'
During the Christmas break, the hydrostatic level sensors (HLSs) in the ATLAS cavern revealed a new facet of their capabilities.
Read article 'First neutrinos head for MINOS'
The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) experiment was officially inaugurated in a ceremony at Fermilab on 4 March.
Read article 'US budget changes priorities for HEP'
On 8 February the White House released its budget proposal for the financial year 2006.
Read article 'WASA finds a new home at COSY'
The Wide Angle Shower Apparatus (WASA) detector, currently at the CELSIUS facility of The Svedberg Laboratory (TSL) in Uppsala, Sweden, is to find a new home.
Read article 'Cornell gets funding for brighter X-rays'
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Cornell University $18 million to begin developing a high-brilliance, high-current Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) synchrotron radiation X-ray source.
Read article 'Radio astronomers observe a possible dark-matter galaxy'
An international team of astronomers has discovered what appears to be an invisible galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter – the first ever detected. The mystery galaxy, VIRGOHI21, lies in t...
