Read article 'Future plans take shape in Beijing'
Future plans take shape in Beijing
At Beijing, the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC) was commissioned in 1988 and physicists are now considering the next step.
Read article 'Future plans take shape in Beijing'
Read article 'SOLEIL is set to rise'
SOLEIL is set to rise
On 11 September, French Minister of Research and Technology Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg announced the decision to build the SOLEIL third-generation synchrotron radiation source near Paris.
Read article 'LHCb’s Brazilian CARIOCA'
LHCb’s Brazilian CARIOCA
The demands that CERN's forthcoming Large Hadron Collider place on detectors have led the LHCb collaboration to look to Latin flair for a solution.
Read article 'ICARUS prepares to fly'
ICARUS prepares to fly
Taking shape in the Italian Gran Sasso underground laboratory is a large module for the Imaging Cosmic And Rare Underground Signals detector.
Read article 'Boost for Andean cosmic ray laboratory'
Boost for Andean cosmic ray laboratory
New support for the Chacaltaya Cosmic Ray Research Laboratory, on Mount Chacaltaya near La Paz, Bolivia, underlines its relevance for cosmic ray research.
Read article 'Looking deep into galaxies'
Looking deep into galaxies
Today’s telescopes allow astronomers to probe deep into the active inner regions of galaxies and see far back in time to the periods of momentous upheaval in the early universe. At this yearR...
Read article 'RHIC starts producing data'
RHIC starts producing data
After achieving first collisions of gold ion beams on the night of 12 June, the gleaming new Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) facility at Brookhaven wasted no time in ramping up in energy and i...
Read article 'B-factories give first results: PEP-II at SLAC…'
B-factories give first results: PEP-II at SLAC…
The PEP-II asymmetric B-factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) continues to exceed expectations, having nearly reached its design performance after only a year of operations.
Read article '…and Belle at KEKB, Japan'
…and Belle at KEKB, Japan
The Belle experiment at the KEKB asymmetric-energy electron-positron B-meson factory recently completed a successful first year of operation.
Read article 'Summer students benefit from CERN visit'
Summer students benefit from CERN visit
CERN always has plenty of visitors, but never more so than in the summer, when the itinerant population is boosted by several hundred students from CERN member states and further afield.
