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Spanish synchrotron gets the green light

The Spanish government gave the green light in March to a project to build a synchrotron light source near Barcelona.

CERN receives a special delivery

The first of eight 25 m coil casings for the ATLAS experiment's barrel toroid magnet system arrived at CERN in March by road from Germany.

Hubble telescope gets a new look

So many exciting discoveries have been made using the Hubble Space Telescope that it seems much longer than 12 years since its launch. This run is now being extended thanks to a successful servicing m...

VLT identifies white dwarfs with record orbiting speeds

Two white dwarf stars have entered the record books with the fastest orbital period known for any stellar system. It takes just 5 min for these two Earth-sized stars to orbit each other – that&#...

Galaxy redefines reionization epoch

Lyman alpha emission has been detected from a galaxy of redshift z = 6.56. If confirmed, this discovery pushes back the limits of when reionization could have occurred in the early universe. The dista...

Helping the AMS experiment to detect antiparticles in space

Particle physicists involved in the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment are eagerly scanning data recorded during a December 2001 NASA space shuttle mission.

Snake charming induces spin-flip

The team, which includes physicists from Michigan and Indiana in the US, IHEP-Protvino in Russia and KEK in Japan, has charmed a string of magnets known as a Siberian snake to spin-flip stored protons...

LEP collider comes to the end of the tunnel

A 14 month programme to dismantle CERN's Large Electron-Positron collider (LEP) reached its conclusion in February, when the last LEP half-dipole was removed from the collider tunnel.