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.
Read article 'Giant step for the ATLAS magnet'
The ATLAS collaboration, which is preparing to do physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, is building a particle detector like none before.
Read article 'Long haul journey gets ‘under’ way'
On 20 October, CERN director-general Luciano Maiani bravely took over the controls of an excavator for the groundbreaking of the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso project.
Read article 'SLAC B-factory exceeds design luminosity'
The PEP-II B-factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) completed its first experimental run at the end of October after achieving record collision rates and producing more than 23 mi...
Read article 'RHIC handles its first polarized protons'
Soon after commissioning with high-energy beams of heavy nuclei, Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider tested the second string to its bow when it underwent its first two-week test of transfe...
Read article 'Korean physics centre is inaugurated'
On 15 September, the Centre for High-Energy Physics (CHEP) in Korea was formally inaugurated at Kyungpook National University, Taegu.
Read article 'Diamonds are forever…'
At a graduation ceremony at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa, technician Mik Rebak was awarded an honorary MSc for his ingenious work in engineering diamond targets in nuclear an...
Read article 'Charmed particles in Beijing'
The world's largest data sample of J/psi particles produced directly from electron-positron annihilation has been accumulated with the BESII spectrometer at the BEPC collider in Beijing.
Read article 'Physics as you lake it'
At the end of August nearly 100 physicists met in Ambleside in England's beautiful Lake District for the Photon 2000 conference organized by Lancaster University.
