Read article 'Noisy stars give good vibrations'
Sound waves running through a star can help astronomers to reveal its inner properties. Alpha Centauri A is the nearest star visible to the naked eye, at a distance of a little more than four light-ye...
Read article 'Green light for massive increase in computing power for LHC data'
The first phase of the impressive Computing Grid project for CERN's future Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was approved at a special meeting of CERN's Council, its governing body, on 20 September.
Read article 'International team breaks through to maximum light amplification'
In a major boost for future plans, an international team based at DESY has achieved maximum light amplification from a free-electron laser (FEL) for ultraviolet radiation.
Read article 'History centre publishes archiving guidelines'
According to a recently released report by the American Institute of Physics Center for the History of Physics, the documentation of collaborative scientific research needs urgent attention.
Read article 'School returns to Switzerland'
For the first time since its inception nearly 40 years ago, the European School of High-Energy Physics was held in Switzerland at Beatenberg in the Bernese Oberland.
Read article 'Quaero makes particle detector datasets available for all'
A major step towards "transparent" particle physics has come from a new scheme that opens up data collected by the D0 experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron proton-antiproton collider.
Read article 'Table-top device makes crystalline beams'
A model set up at Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilians University has for the first time achieved a high level of “crystallization” of particle beams in a ring. The particles orbiting in conv...
Read article 'Observers decipher more primordial helium to unravel the history of the early universe'
Observations of helium give new clues as to how matter evolved in the early universe. The primordial helium gas left over from the Big Bang is spread thinly through space between galaxies. NASA’...
Read article 'Observations link gamma-ray bursts to black hole formation'
Over recent years, astronomers have detected numerous short, intense bursts of gamma rays coming from all over the sky. For a brief instant, these flashes of radiation are more energetic than anything...
Read article 'NASA MAPs the microwave background'
NASA launched its Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) this summer. The experiment will measure the cosmic microwave background to one part in a million, with a sensitivity that is greater than 20 µK...
