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...
Read article 'Data Grid project gets EU funding'
Plans for the next generation of network-based information-handling systems took a major step forward when the European Union's Fifth Framework Information Society Technologies programme concluded ne...
Read article 'Experiments revisit the quark-gluon soup'
The main goal of this research is to explore the transition from ordinary hadronic matter to quark-gluon plasma - matter as it is thought to have existed at the birth of the universe.
Read article 'Moscow accelerator creates first beam'
The TeraWatt Accumulator (TWAC) project at Moscow's Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) has successfully passed its proof-of-principle test.
Read article 'HERA-B finds a new direction'
The DESY laboratory in Hamburg has accepted a proposal from the HERA-B experiment for a revised programme of research.
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.
