Read article 'Sky survey produces 14 million new results'
In June, two major survey collaborations released their data to the world’s astronomy community. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) released observations of some 14 million objects, including s...
Read article 'The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory confirms the oscillation picture'
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, which started taking data in 1999, has announced its first results on solar neutrinos, which confirm the suspicion that something happens to these particles on their ...
Read article 'Japan’s KEKB offers unprecedented luminosity'
The KEKB Japanese B-factory collider is delivering unprecedented luminosity (a measure of the machine's electron-positron collision rate) to the international collaboration running the Belle experimen...
Read article 'New CMS visitor centre proves a star attraction'
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, which is being carried out in preparation for the installation of CERN's forthcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC), became one of the laboratory's star visito...
Read article 'CERN computing wins top award'
This prestigious award was made to CERN for its innovative application of information technology to the benefit of society, and it followed the laboratory's nomination by Lawrence Ellison, chairman an...
Read article 'Magnets become more compact'
A new development in Japan that enables powerful magnetic fields to be obtained without using expensive electromagnets could open the door to smaller, special-purpose particle accelerator installation...
Read article 'Last LHC magnets from Siberia reach CERN'
The delivery of Russian magnets to equip transfer lines to feed CERN's new LHC collider is now complete.
Read article 'Latin-American school marks start of a new collaboration for CERN'
The first school of high-energy physics organized jointly by CERN and CLAF (Centro latinoamericano de física), Rio de Janeiro was held in Itacuruçá, Brazil on 6-19 May and it hopefully marked the o...
Read article 'Crystals put spin on particle beam action'
New investigations being made into the behaviour of charged particle beams as they pass through crystals suggest that the very high electric fields inside these crystals could be used to orient the sp...
Read article 'CP violation is measured precisely'
The problem of obtaining a precise measurement of one of the most elusive effects in particle physics has finally been overcome.
