Read article 'Isotope source reaches full energy'
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 'Isotope source reaches full energy'
Read article 'Hubble Telescope explores the event horizon'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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,...
