Read article 'New protocol accords CERN wider international status'
New protocol accords CERN wider international status
CERN's member states have adopted a new protocol on the privileges and immunities of the organization.
Read article 'New protocol accords CERN wider international status'
Read article 'Experiment catches third glimpse of ‘one in ten billion’ decay'
Experiment catches third glimpse of ‘one in ten billion’ decay
The E949 collaboration at the Brookhaven National Laboratory has reported further evidence for a very rare kaon decay.
Read article 'Electrons give BaBar a ‘trickle treat’'
Electrons give BaBar a ‘trickle treat’
The PEP-II accelerator at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) reached a new milestone on 11 March by phasing in “trickle injection”, a mode of operation that increases the produc...
Read article 'Workshop looks to the future of QCD'
Workshop looks to the future of QCD
While quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is considered to be the theory of strong interactions, it is very difficult to use it to make predictions of processes over distances of the order of the size of had...
Read article 'WestGrid team announces completion of computing network in western Canada'
WestGrid team announces completion of computing network in western Canada
Scientists leading the WestGrid project in Canada have announced that the major resources of this $48 million project are available for general use by the research community.
Read article 'VLT detects farthest known galaxy'
VLT detects farthest known galaxy
The discovery of a galaxy at a redshift of 10.0 smashes the record for the most distant object known in the universe. The detection of this very faint galaxy was made possible by combining the amplifi...
Read article 'FINUDA’s first results open up new window on exotic nuclei'
FINUDA’s first results open up new window on exotic nuclei
The first results from the FINUDA experiment at INFN's Frascati National Laboratory show that the detector is performing well and is in good shape for its future studies of hypernuclear physics.
Read article 'Superheavies extend periodic table to 115'
Superheavies extend periodic table to 115
A team from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in the US, has published results on the synthesis of two new superhe...
Read article 'OECD committee endorses future linear collider'
OECD committee endorses future linear collider
Ministers meeting at the end of January for the Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy of the OECD have acknowledged the importance of ensuring access to large-scale research infrastructure...
Read article 'ASACUSA probes the astrophysical ‘ice age’'
ASACUSA probes the astrophysical ‘ice age’
Given the apparent absence of antimatter at the cosmic scale, it might seem strange that a recent paper from the ASACUSA collaboration on quantum tunneling effects in collisions between antiprotonic h...
