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SESAME opens the door to Middle East co-operation

The SESAME project to build a synchrotron light source in the Middle East took a step closer to reality in May, when it received unanimous approval from the UNESCO executive board.

Gamma-ray facility inaugurated in Namibia

The first telescope of the high-energy stereoscopic system (HESS), named in honour of Victor Hess, the discoverer of cosmic radiation, was officially inaugurated in Namibia in September.

LHCb receives delivery from Russia

The LHCb collaboration, dedicated to studying CP violation in B-meson decays at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), has received the first components of its calorimeter system from Russia.

Grid technology developed by ALICE

The ALICE experiment, which is being prepared for CERN's Large Hadron Collider, has developed the ALICE production environment.

MiniBOONE goes live at Fermilab

The MiniBOONE experiment at Fermilab inthe US saw its first neutrinos in September.

HEP email news wire

Fermilab and SLAC announced the launch of an email news wire for high-energy physics and related fields in September.

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...

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...

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...