Read article 'Boulby extends the search for dark matter'
On 28 April, the UK minister for science and innovation, Lord Sainsbury, opened a new research cavern at the Boulby Underground Laboratory for Dark Matter Research, at Boulby in North Yorkshire, UK.
Read article 'Kavli Institute inaugurated at SLAC'
The new Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology has been inaugurated at SLAC.
Read article 'The race to observe gamma-ray bursts'
After the precise localization of a new gamma-ray burst, several institutes try to obtain an image of its optical counterpart as quickly as possible.
Read article 'NESTOR sees muons at the bottom of the sea'
On 29 March the NESTOR collaboration successfully deployed the first "floor" for a detector tower at its site 4000 m deep in the Ionian Sea.
Read article 'ACFA unveils plans for linear collider'
The Asian Committee for Future Accelerators (ACFA), together with the Japan Association of High Energy Physics (JAHEP) and the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), have published a "ro...
Read article 'Wigglers give CESR a new charmed life'
In early March, after more than 23 years of continuous operation, the CESR staff and the CLEO collaboration at Cornell completed their programme of b quark physics.
Read article 'Neutrinos limit role of CNO cycle'
The Sun burns through various nuclear reactions with the same net effect - the fusion of four protons to form a nucleus of helium, with the release of energy.
Read article 'BESSY shines bright in the far-infrared'
The BESSY synchrotron light source in Berlin has developed a technique to provide intense, steady-state, broadband coherent radiation in the far-infrared - or terahertz (THz) - spectral range.
Read article 'Universe may end in a Big Rip'
“Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice” wrote the poet Robert Frost in 1916. A third, even more fantastic possibility for the death of the universe has just been proposed. T...
Read article 'A Brazilian feast of cosmology and gravitation'
The Brazilian School of Cosmology and Gravitation celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2002 by launching a website that contains all 93 lectures and seminars of the nine schools that have been organized...
