Read article 'NESTOR approved'
On 10 August, the Greek government formally approved the establishment of a national NESTOR Institute for Deep Sea Research, Technology and Neutrino Astroparticle Physics. Its headquarters are at Pylo...
Read article 'More light on the Cherenkov effect'
Cherenkov radiation is one of the main techniques for particle identification, but details of the underlying theory are still under debate. A group of researchers from Comenius University, Bratislava,...
Read article 'Web tool LIGHTs up code'
CERN’s Information and Programming Technology (IPT) group has exploited the World Wide Web to make it easier to keep track of masses of computer code. Lifecycle Global Hypertext (LIGHT) was so s...
Read article 'Explosion forces rethink on stellar collapse'
An exceptionally powerful explosion in a nearby galaxy has led astronomers to re-examine their theories of stellar evolution. What is more, the explosion was co-incident with a burst of gamma rays, pr...
Read article 'Astrowatch'
Infrared reveals early universe Observations using the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) show that the first galaxies to form were far brighter than astronomers thought. The results were presented at a...
Read article 'Work on triangle anomaly wins Dirac Medal'
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste has awarded its Dirac Medal this year to Stephen Adler of Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study and Roman Jackiw...
Read article 'Long hot summer'
Smooth running at CERN’s LEP electronpositron collider, now at 189 GeV collision energy (94.5 GeV per beam), is reflected in a fast climbing, integrated luminosity curve. Integrated lumino...
Read article 'New eye on the
sky'
The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to launch the satellite in April 2001 and use it to study hard X-ray and gamma-ray sources in the energy range 15 keV to 10 MeV. A full-scale structural and therm...
Read article 'Astrowatch'
Moon sheds light on Sun Moondust contains traces of rare solar gases, krypton and xenon. This discovery, made by researchers at ETH Zurich, promises a unique archive of the life of the Sun. Buffeted b...
Read article 'Beauty is in the eye of the LHC beholder'
The LHCb experiment has been formally approved for CERN’s LHC collider. Unlike the other major LHC detectors (ALICE, ATLAS and CMS) which will completely surround their respective collision poin...
