Read article 'Rare kaon decay tests Standard Model'
An experiment at Long Island's Brookhaven laboratory has just reported a long-awaited result: the observation of only the second decay of a positive kaon into a positive pion accompanied by a neutrino...
Read article 'Quantum gravity comes in from the cold'
Gravity and quantum mechanics rarely mix in laboratory circles.
Read article 'Team reports neutrinoless double beta decay'
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, have reported evidence of neutrinoless double beta decay.
Read article 'Pierre Auger Observatory in action'
On a cold, clear night last May the shutters rolled away from the aperture window.
Read article 'New high-speed data link between CERN and the US'
The growth of international collaboration in science was underlined last December by the award of a contract to Dutch telecoms provider KPNQuest for a new transatlantic high-speed data link at 622 Mbp...
Read article 'ESA mission will study ultimate energies'
Joining the Pierre Auger Observatory in the long term will be ESA's Extreme Universe Space Observatory, which is scheduled to fly on the International Space Station from 2008.
Read article 'Milky Way reveals new information about the density of baryonic matter in the universe'
Ordinary matter composed of baryons - essentially protons and neutrons - is responsible for only a tenth of the gravitation observed in the universe.
Read article 'CERN reacts to increased LHC costs'
At its December meeting, CERN's governing Council decided on new measures to react to the increased costs that emerged last year for its future Large Hadron Collider.
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.
