Read article 'Language was no barrier at Budapest conference'
This year's venue for the European Physical Society's biennial Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics was the new campus of Eotvos University in Budapest, Hungary.
Read article 'RHIC collider running at full collision energy'
The 4 km circumference Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven Laboratory is now running at its full design nucleon collision energy of 200 GeV and physics expectations are high.
Read article 'CERN sells its internal transaction management software to UK firm'
CERN has sold its Internal Transaction Management system to UK internal transaction management concern Transacsys for 1 million Swiss francs (EURO 660,000).
Read article 'Team produces stranger than strange nuclei'
An experiment at Brookhaven's Alternating Gradient Synchrotron has "mass-produced" doubly strange hypernuclei - exotic nuclei in which two neutrons have been replaced by L hyperons.
Read article 'Asia programme offers postgraduate grants'
The appointment is for one year, which might exceptionally be extended to two years.
Read article 'Accelerator prizes'
US Particle Accelerator School prizes for Achievement in Accelerator Physics and Technology for this year went to Tor Raubenheimer of SLAC, Stanford and Dieter Moehl of CERN.
Read article 'Sky survey produces 14 million new results'
In June, two major survey collaborations released their data to the world’s astronomy community. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) released observations of some 14 million objects, including s...
Read article 'The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory confirms the oscillation picture'
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, which started taking data in 1999, has announced its first results on solar neutrinos, which confirm the suspicion that something happens to these particles on their ...
Read article 'Japan’s KEKB offers unprecedented luminosity'
The KEKB Japanese B-factory collider is delivering unprecedented luminosity (a measure of the machine's electron-positron collision rate) to the international collaboration running the Belle experimen...
Read article 'New CMS visitor centre proves a star attraction'
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, which is being carried out in preparation for the installation of CERN's forthcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC), became one of the laboratory's star visito...
