Read article 'Happy 40th birthday to ESO'
This autumn, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) celebrates its 40th anniversary. As current ESO director Catherine Cesarsky looks back fondly on the last four decades, she remembers “one fu...
Read article 'VLT to help map the universe'
Attempting to measure the evolution of the universe requires a huge sample of objects. Observations of millions of galaxies, looking further and further back in time, are needed to make an enormous 3D...
Read article 'Turkey hosts regional instrumentation school'
The first International Committee on Future Accelerators regional instrumentation school was held in June at the new instrumentation centre at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, marking a new depa...
Read article 'LHC test-bed progresses to second phase'
A complete cell of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) began tests at the laboratory in June.
Read article 'ALICE crystals arrive at CERN'
The first 500 crystals for the ALICE experiment's photon spectrometer (PHOS) arrived at CERN in May after a journey via Moscow from the town of Apatity in the Russian arctic region.
Read article 'Amsterdam hosts ICHEP conference'
"Brilliant work by many people has resulted in an extraordinarily profound, precise description of the physical world," concluded Frank Wilczek of MIT, in summarizing the 31st International Conference...
Read article 'New particle data'
The 2002 edition of the Review of Particle Physics appears in the 1 July edition of Physical Review D (K Hagiwara et al. 2002 Phys. Rev. D 66 010001).
Read article 'ESO reaches 40'
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) celebrates its 40th anniversary on 5 October
Read article 'Physicists create font for antimatter'
Physicists from the University of Mississippi in the US have developed the font, LinguistA, which allows to represent antimatter particles in Microsoft Word easier.
Read article 'CANDLE set to light up Armenian science'
Originally in the running to host SESAME, Armenia launched its own synchrotron project when Jordan was chosen as the location for the Middle Eastern regional facility.
