Read article 'JAERI/KEK project gets government approval'
Phase 1 of the new joint project between the Japanese Atomic Energy Research Institute and the national KEK laboratory on high-intensity proton accelerators has been given the go-ahead to begin const...
Read article 'Physics meeting reflects Vietnam’s prosperity'
The latest of the now traditional Rencontres du Vietnam, organized by Trân Than Vân, took place in Hanoi last summer.
Read article 'Scientists seek the secret of start-up and spin-off success'
Basic science does not usually have immediate benefits for industry or the economic world in general, and
delays in visible return are often difficult to reconcile with the short-term expectations of...
Read article 'CESR set to bow out of B-particle business'
After some 20 years of making milestone contributions to the physics of B-particles, the CLEO collaboration at Cornell's CESR electron-positron collider is now looking to step down in energy.
Read article 'Isotope source reaches full energy'
The new Isotope Separator and Accelerator (ISAC-I) at the Canadian TRIUMF laboratory in Vancouver has
reached its maximum energy on schedule.
Read article 'Hubble Telescope explores the event horizon'
Observations using the Hubble Space Telescope show matter disappearing as it falls beyond an event horizon. If correct, this would be the first direct evidence for the existence of black holes. An eve...
Read article 'ESA launches Lobster'
As ESA headquarters in Paris celebrated the first birthday of its XMM-Newton X-ray space observatory, astronomers were already planning the next generation of X-ray telescopes. Lobster is on the cards...
Read article 'Background hots up'
The spectrum of a distant quasar reveals the presence of cosmic microwave background radiation when the universe was just 2.5 billion years old. The observations allow astronomers to place limits on t...
Read article 'Medical accelerator is on course'
A new linear accelerator is on course to bring about important advances in cancer therapy following successful tests at CERN last year. The LIBO Linac Booster was conceived in 1993 by Ugo Amaldi (then...
Read article 'The final curtain falls on LEP'
After a concerted push by physicists to extend the running of CERN's LEP 27 km electron-positron collider into 2001, the decision has been taken to close the machine for good.
