Read article 'Radioactive beam research gets new facility'
CERN's new nuclear physics facility, REX-ISOLDE, was commissioned at the end of October, opening up new horizons for the laboratory's nuclear physics community.
Read article 'U10 proton synchrotron reaches 40'
Moscow's Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of the commissioning of its U10 proton synchrotron.
Read article 'Subpanel recommends a collision course'
This facility is the next major step in the field and should be designed, built and operated as a fully international effort.
Read article 'Accident at major detector in Japan'
The extent of the damage suggested some kind of chain reaction in the tubes, with one implosion setting off the next. It happened as the detector was being refilled with water after routine maintena...
Read article 'Experiment reveals neutrino surprise'
The measurements gave a value for an electroweak parameter that was three standard deviations higher than predicted by the Standard Model.
Read article 'X-rays come under the spotlight'
In 1999 two new X-ray satellites were launched – Chandra and XMM-Newton. Here we mark a few of their discoveries and show some of the X-ray images that are now available to astronomers. For the ...
Read article 'Non-X-ray news: UK is set to join ESO'
On 1 July the UK will become the tenth member state of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The other member states are Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden ...
Read article 'Going into the cold: LHC systems reach an important milestone'
The technical systems for CERN's forthcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reached an important milestone earlier this year with the successful commissioning of String 2 - a chain of prototype LHC magn...
Read article 'Accident ruins major detector'
On 12 November, thousands of photomultipliers imploded in the huge Superkamiokande detector in Japan, which has produced important results on neutrino physics.
Read article 'BES accumulates 51 million J/psi events'
While plans to update the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC) and the Beijing Spectro-meter (BESII) experiment go ahead, the BES experiment has completed its second highly successful run at t...
