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Two months from now the International Telecommunications Union will hold its World Radio Conference in Turkey. Radio astronomers are hoping for new regulations to curb emission from satellites that ar...
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Two months from now the International Telecommunications Union will hold its World Radio Conference in Turkey. Radio astronomers are hoping for new regulations to curb emission from satellites that ar...
New results from a test flight of the Boomerang balloon experiment imply that there is just enough matter to stop the expansion of the universe, but not to reverse it.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed recently in Seoul between a CERN delegation comprising the director of research Roger Cashmore, the advisor on non-member states John Ellis, the CMS resourc...
The first major contract for the CMS experiment at CERN's LHC was completed last month when the last of 120 forged iron blocks rolled off the production line at the Izhora factory, St Petersburg.
In Experimental Hall B at the Jefferson Laboratory, Newport News, Virginia, the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer has opened a new "window" on the building blocks of matter: mesons, nuclei and n...
The traditional annual UK theory meeting at the Rutherford Laboratory is a good showcase for new theory trends.
The University of Liverpool has just commissioned a major computer system that is dedicated to the simulation of data for current and future scientific experiments.
An international collaboration of radiochemists has carried out the first chemical study of the transuranic element bohrium (atomic number 107) using the Philips cyclotron at the Swiss Paul Scherrer I...
The name of Hubble will be eternally linked with 20th-century astronomy. At the beginning of the 20th century astronomers knew of planets and stars, and anything else was called a nebula (derived from...
Observations of astronomical water masers have provided us with a new measure of distance in space. Maser emission was detected by a team using the US Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), from material ro...