Read article '‘Naked’ crystals go underground'
On 5 May, four "naked" high-purity germanium detectors were installed in liquid nitrogen in the GENIUS Test Facility (GENIUS-TF) at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory.
Read article 'Hot gas reveals cold dark matter'
The long controversy between cold-dark-matter and hot-dark-matter models is rapidly nearing an end. A recent study of the X-ray emission of hot gas in a massive cluster of galaxies has allowed astrono...
Read article 'Gamma-ray bursts made by supernovae'
The discovery of the supernova SN2003dh at the location of the Gamma-ray burst GRB030329 enlightens the search for the origin of GRBs.
Read article 'BaBar’s new particle shows unexpected traits'
The BaBar experiment at SLAC has revealed a new narrow particle state that has been identified as a charmed meson, that is, a charm quark, c, bound with an antiquark, in this case a strange antiquark,...
Read article 'JLab results put new spin on the vacuum'
New measurements from the US Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab (JLab) in Virginia are challenging existing ideas on how quark-antiquark pairs are produced from "nothing" - that is, the vacuum.
Read article 'TRIUMF and IUCF provide new results on CSB'
Two separate experiments in North America - at TRIUMF in Vancouver and at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF) in Bloomington - have made new observations of charge symmetry breaking (CSB)...
Read article 'Boulby extends the search for dark matter'
On 28 April, the UK minister for science and innovation, Lord Sainsbury, opened a new research cavern at the Boulby Underground Laboratory for Dark Matter Research, at Boulby in North Yorkshire, UK.
Read article 'Kavli Institute inaugurated at SLAC'
The new Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology has been inaugurated at SLAC.
Read article 'The race to observe gamma-ray bursts'
After the precise localization of a new gamma-ray burst, several institutes try to obtain an image of its optical counterpart as quickly as possible.
Read article 'NESTOR sees muons at the bottom of the sea'
On 29 March the NESTOR collaboration successfully deployed the first "floor" for a detector tower at its site 4000 m deep in the Ionian Sea.
