Read article 'Black hole survey'
NASA has chosen the first six science projects for its Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTEF). By far the biggest chunk of observing time will go to the Black Holes and Galaxies project – an...
Read article 'Microeffect in muon magnetism'
A new precision measurement of the muon's magnetism during an experiment at Brookhaven has shown a tiny unexplained discrepancy.
Read article 'How CP violation came to B'
Two major new experiments have provided the first strong indications of the delicate CP violation effect in a totally new domain - the decays of B mesons (containing the fifth or "b" quark).
Read article 'Solar telescope CASTs the net for solar axions'
The CERN Solar Axion Telescope, CAST, aims to shed light on a 30-year-old riddle of particle physics by detecting axions originating from the 15 million degree plasma in the Sun's core.
Read article 'End-cap toroids for ATLAS experiment are ready to roll'
The first part of the end-cap toroid system for the mighty ATLAS experiment, which is under preparation for CERN's Large Hadron Collider, will soon be on the road to CERN.
Read article 'NIKOS makes coronary tests comfortable'
A new method for the radiography of coronary blood vessels (known as angiography) promises to make examinations much easier for patients.
Read article 'PCs gain greater importance in particle accelerator control'
Personal computers are steadily making inroads into some specialist and very impersonal fields.
Read article 'Uranium dating suggests new age of universe'
The first measurement of uranium outside our solar system suggests that the universe is at least 12.5 billion years old. Just as the radioactive decay of carbon-14 is used for dating archaeological re...
Read article 'Antu telescope reveals secrets of the stars'
Observations using the European Southern Observatories’ Antu telescope in Chile are helping to shed light on the mystery of star formation. Stars form from interstellar clouds of gas and dust th...
Read article 'Black holes show up in early galaxies'
Radio observations have shown the presence of black holes in the centre of early galaxies. The new results support the theory that supermassive black holes played a crucial role in the formation of ga...
