Read article 'Workshop looks to the future of QCD'
While quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is considered to be the theory of strong interactions, it is very difficult to use it to make predictions of processes over distances of the order of the size of had...
Read article 'WestGrid team announces completion of computing network in western Canada'
Scientists leading the WestGrid project in Canada have announced that the major resources of this $48 million project are available for general use by the research community.
Read article 'VLT detects farthest known galaxy'
The discovery of a galaxy at a redshift of 10.0 smashes the record for the most distant object known in the universe. The detection of this very faint galaxy was made possible by combining the amplifi...
Read article 'FINUDA’s first results open up new window on exotic nuclei'
The first results from the FINUDA experiment at INFN's Frascati National Laboratory show that the detector is performing well and is in good shape for its future studies of hypernuclear physics.
Read article 'Superheavies extend periodic table to 115'
A team from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in the US, has published results on the synthesis of two new superhe...
Read article 'OECD committee endorses future linear collider'
Ministers meeting at the end of January for the Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy of the OECD have acknowledged the importance of ensuring access to large-scale research infrastructure...
Read article 'ASACUSA probes the astrophysical ‘ice age’'
Given the apparent absence of antimatter at the cosmic scale, it might seem strange that a recent paper from the ASACUSA collaboration on quantum tunneling effects in collisions between antiprotonic h...
Read article 'CERN strengthens links with AMS experiment'
CERN and the collaboration behind the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment have signed a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the execution of the experiment.
Read article 'PPARC approves new funding for UK accelerator R&D'
The UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) has approved a £21 million (~€31 million) programme of accelerator R&D for future facilities in particle physics, including a linear c...
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...
