Read article 'Canadians set record for long-distance data transfer'
A Canadian team has succeeded in transferring 1 TByte of data over a newly established "lightpath" extending 12,000 km from TRIUMF in Vancouver to CERN in Geneva in under 4 h - a new record rate of 70...
Read article 'Karlsruhe Grid computing centre is inaugurated'
To cope with the computational requirements of the LHC experiments, a worldwide virtual computing centre is being developed - a global computational grid of tens of thousands of computers and storage ...
Read article 'UK boosts technology transfer support'
During the past year, the UK's Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) has begun an innovative approach to strengthening technology transfer with CERN.
Read article 'Gravitational lens sheds light on dark energy'
Observations of radio emission from distant quasars have given new weight to the theory of dark energy – a kind of vacuum energy density that changes the acceleration of the universe. Quasars ar...
Read article 'Cosmic accelerator reveals hot spots'
Radio galaxies are characterized by enormous jets, up to millions of light-years across, shooting out charged particles at up to almost the speed of light. Bright spots of emission are seen at the end...
Read article 'JINR Information and Biographical Guide'
For readers of Russian, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna has just produced the second issue of its Information and Biographical Guide. Including 680 short biographical summarie...
Read article 'ATRAP looks inside antihydrogen'
Relying on ionization of the cold antiatoms when they pass through a strong electric field gradient, the ATRAP measurement provides the first glimpse inside an antiatom.
Read article 'RHIC limbers up for a new heavy-ion run'
Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) began its cool-down on 1 November ready for the first injection of beam in December.
Read article 'BES accumulates 14 million y(2S) events'
This year, the Beijing Spectrometer (BES) experiment running at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC) completed a run at the energy of the y(2S) resonance.
Read article 'CMS assembly enters its next phase'
Assembly of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector, being built for physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, reached an important turning point in October.
