Read article 'Supernova supports negative pressure concept'
Images of a supernova 10 billion light-years from Earth give new weight to the theory of negative pressure (Einstein’s cosmological constant). The observations of the exploding star, made using ...
Read article 'Gamma-ray bursts are linked to star-forming regions'
At the Gamma Ray 2001 conference in Baltimore, Luigi Piro of the Istituto Astrofisica Spaziale in Rome presented new evidence linking gamma-ray bursts to dense regions of star formation. Gamma-ray bur...
Read article 'HERA upgrade increases luminosity'
Major changes are under way at Hamburg's DESY laboratory.
Read article 'Run II begins at the Tevatron'
Back in operation for particle physics for the first time since 1996, Fermilab's superconducting Tevatron proton antiproton collider is set to write a major new chapter of science history.
Read article 'KEK solenoid passes full power test'
On 26 December 2000 the Japanese KEK laboratory accomplished full powering of the superconducting solenoid magnet for the forthcoming giant ATLAS experiment at CERN's LHC collider.
Read article 'EC to fund project for faster optical detectors'
The project, known as "Impecable", will fund the development of more efficient and faster optical detectors by the newly formed consortium, leading to their subsequent production by Photek and Electr...
Read article 'Awards highlight top suppliers'
The CMS and ATLAS collaborations currently building experiments for CERN's LHC collider have recently been handing out their very own Oscars to their most meritorious suppliers.
Read article 'STAR detector gets new silicon heart'
Recently Brookhaven's RHIC achieved another major milestone with the insertion of the Silicon Vertex Tracker into the heart of the Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC detector.
Read article 'Making Tevatron magnets'
A new magnetic system for Fermilab's Tevatron collider has been designed and built in a collaboration between Fermilab and the Institute for High-Energy Physics in Protvino, near Moscow.
Read article 'Keck heralds a new era for optical astronomy'
On the night of 12 March, the Keck interferometer in Hawaii began operations. It is currently the largest optical telescope in the world, with a resolution equivalent to that of a single telescope wit...
