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.
Read article 'CMS calorimeter begins to take shape'
Research institutes all over the world are busy providing components for the experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
Read article 'ATLAS becomes a film star'
An 18 minute video entitled The ATLAS Experiment has been declared overall winner of the 2000 MIF-Sciences Scientific Film Box Office contest. The award-winning film explains how more than 1800 phys...
Read article 'Riken-RAL notch up another decade'
The 10 year collaboration between RIKEN, the Japanese Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, and the UK Rutherford Appleton Laboratory to create an intense muon source has been renewed for ano...
Read article 'VLT investigates cosmic shear'
Astronomers have mapped the universe’s dark matter in 50 independent directions using the European Southern Observatories’ Very Large Telescope (VLT). Their results, announced in December,...
Read article 'ESA supports physics missions'
Last autumn the European Space Agency’s Science Programme Committee met to define the priorities for 2008-2013. Its announced package included funding for two missions to study fundamental physi...
Read article 'LEP reaps a final harvest'
CERN's LEP electron-positron collider stubbornly refused to lie down quietly in 2000.
