Read article 'GSI Darmstadt gains credit for new element'
The Joint Working Party (JWP) on the priority of claims to the discovery of new elements has officially credited the research collaboration led by Sigurd Hofmann at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenfo...
Read article 'MAGIC opens up the gamma-ray sky'
The MAGIC telescope was inaugurated on 10 October on the Canary Island of La Palma.
Read article 'Site announced for new X-ray free-electron laser'
At a press conference on 29 October, DESY announced that the new X-ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL) is to be built in the German federal states of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.
Read article 'Heavy feet arrive for the LHC…'
The first 800 jacks for one sector of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have arrived at CERN from India in recent weeks.
Read article '…while correction coils proceed at full speed'
The 1000th correction coil made in India for the LHC was handed over at a ceremony at the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) in Mumbai at the end of September.
Read article 'Endowment reward for string theorists'
String theory in India recently received an unexpected boost when Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire based in New York, gave string theorists associated with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TI...
Read article 'Deuterons display surprising spin gymnastics'
Just before the Cooler Ring at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF) passed into history, it produced another impressive result using the ring's unique accelerator physics capabilities.
Read article 'Grid technology goes to Pakistan'
As a natural extension of its participation in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project, Pakistan has begun a deeper involvement in the LHC Computing Grid (LCG).
Read article 'PAEC chairman pays visit to CERN'
Parvez Butt, chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), visited CERN on 15 October.
Read article '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.
