Read article 'Grid technology goes to Pakistan'
As a natural extension of its participation in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project, Pakistan has begun a deeper involvement in the LHC Computing Grid (LCG).
Read article 'PAEC chairman pays visit to CERN'
Parvez Butt, chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), visited CERN on 15 October.
Read article 'Auger ready for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays'
With the completion of its 100th surface detector at the end of October, the Pierre Auger Observatory became the largest cosmic-ray air-shower array in the world.
Read article 'INTEGRAL discovers hidden black holes'
INTEGRAL, the powerful gamma-ray space telescope, has discovered what seems to be a new class of astronomical objects. These are binary systems, probably including a black hole or a neutron star, embe...
Read article 'Superconductivity links physics and medicine'
The 2003 Nobel prizes in physics and physiology or medicine both have connections with the field of particle physics.
Read article 'SNO gets results with a large pinch of salt'
New results from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) are beginning to pin down more precisely the parameters for mixing between different types of neutrino.
Read article 'Laser ion source heads for new life'
On 22 August the last of three Russian trucks left CERN for Moscow carrying, as a long-term loan, a laser ion source in 93 boxes with a total volume of 150 cubic meters and a weight of 42 tonnes.
Read article 'A heavy load arrives for ALICE'
On 25 September the two large coils for the ALICE dipole magnet arrived at Point 2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) after a 1200 km journey from their manufacturer.
Read article 'Narrow states abound at HADRON 2003'
Aschaffenburg, a medieval town near Frankfurt in Germany, was the attractive setting for the 10th International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, held from 31 August to 6 September.
Read article 'Evidence for spinning black holes in our galaxy'
Do all black holes spin? How fast do they spin? The most detailed studies of stellar black holes to date by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton sate...
