Read article 'Extra funding for Perimeter Institute'
Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics was awarded C$25 million (€16 million) by the Canadian Federal government at a groundbreaking ceremony in June. Soon after, the province of...
Read article 'CERN hosts First Tuesday meeting'
Some 250 people came to CERN to learn about the latest developments in Grid computing technology.
Read article 'Young physicists attend CERN accelerator school in Portugal'
Young accelerator physicists converged on the Portuguese coastal town of Sesimbra in September for the 2002 CERN Accelerator School (CAS) introductory course on particle accelerators.
Read article 'DASI measures CMB polarization'
The Degree Angular Scale Interferometer (DASI) has announced the first measurements of the polarization of cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation.
Read article 'Cold antiatoms produced at CERN'
Physicists working at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator (AD) have announced the first controlled production of large numbers of antihydrogen atoms at low energies.
Read article '2002 Nobel Prize for Physics is announced'
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Physics to three astrophysics pioneers.
Read article 'SESAME opens the door to Middle East co-operation'
The SESAME project to build a synchrotron light source in the Middle East took a step closer to reality in May, when it received unanimous approval from the UNESCO executive board.
Read article 'Gamma-ray facility inaugurated in Namibia'
The first telescope of the high-energy stereoscopic system (HESS), named in honour of Victor Hess, the discoverer of cosmic radiation, was officially inaugurated in Namibia in September.
Read article 'LHCb receives delivery from Russia'
The LHCb collaboration, dedicated to studying CP violation in B-meson decays at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), has received the first components of its calorimeter system from Russia.
Read article 'Grid technology developed by ALICE'
The ALICE experiment, which is being prepared for CERN's Large Hadron Collider, has developed the ALICE production environment.
