Read article 'CERN hosts major policy conference'
Scientists, policy makers and stakeholders from around the world came together at CERN on 8 and 9 December 2003, when the laboratory hosted The Role of Science in the Information Society (RSIS) confer...
Read article 'Spitzer Space Telescope delivers first pictures'
On 18 December 2003 a new window to the universe opened with the release of the first dazzling images from NASA’s newly named Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly known as the Space InfraRed Telesc...
Read article 'New five-quark states found at CERN'
Only a few months after the first burst of excitement over the appearance at several laboratories of what seems to be a new five-quark particle, evidence has been found for a different five-quark stat...
Read article 'Cool times ahead for muons at Fermilab'
The Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider Collaboration - or Muon Collaboration for short - has finished constructing the MuCool Test Area at Fermilab.
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...
