Read article 'Star ripped apart by giant black hole'
It has long been predicted that the very strong tidal forces of supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies are able to disrupt stars venturing too close. Observational evidence for this phenom...
Read article 'ISOLTRAP pins down masses of exotic nuclei'
Researchers using the Penning trap mass spectrometer, ISOLTRAP, at the ISOLDE facility at CERN have published new high-precision measurements of the mass of short-lived radionuclides of argon and copp...
Read article 'Estonia and CERN are moving closer'
Estonia's parliament has recently approved special funding from the country's state budget of some €100,000 annually for the period 2004-2010.
Read article 'First module for the CMS solenoid magnet heads from Genova to Geneva…'
The first of five modules that will form the superconducting solenoid magnet for the CMS experiment at CERN was ready to leave the Italian port of Genova at the end of January, subject to good weather...
Read article '…while the ATLAS solenoid approaches its final position'
The ATLAS superconducting solenoid has been moved for nearly the last time and is now in position in the assembly hall on the Meyrin site at CERN, opposite the cryostat that will house the liquid-argo...
Read article 'SPEAR ring comes to life again as a dazzling new synchrotron light source…'
The latest reincarnation of the famous SPEAR storage ring - SPEAR3 - was formally opened at a dedication ceremony at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) on 29 January.
Read article '…and STELLA lights way to a better electron accelerator'
Researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a compact linear accelerator that uses laser light to accelerate electrons with better efficiency and energy characteristics than befor...
Read article 'Double pulsar opens up new astrophysics'
An international team of scientists working with the 64 m Parkes Telescope in Australia and the 76 m Lovell Telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in the UK has found that the recently discovered n...
Read article 'CERN Council rings the changes'
The CERN Council has formally approved the new structure for CERN, which was presented by the incoming director-general, Robert Aymar, at the Council's meeting on 19 December 2003.
Read article 'New g-2 measurement deviates further from Standard Model'
There has been considerable interest in these measurements because of the potential sensitivity to new physics such as supersymmetry, which would show up as a difference between the Standard Model val...
