Read article 'CAPP off at music and physics festival'
CAPP off at music and physics festival
Music and physics combined during the CAPP 2000.
Read article 'CAPP off at music and physics festival'
Read article 'Remotest gamma burst seen'
Remotest gamma burst seen
A violent burst of gamma rays detected on 31 January has been pinpointed to a galaxy at a redshift of 4.5, making it the most remote such burst ever observed. Its brightness was enormous – 10 00...
Read article 'Final VLT telescope observes first light'
Final VLT telescope observes first light
This autumn saw a double milestone for the European Southern Observatories’ Very Large Telescope (VLT) interferometer at the Paranal observatory, Chile. The fourth and final 8.2 m telescope of t...
Read article 'Chandra shows Crab pulsar rings'
Chandra shows Crab pulsar rings
The Crab supernova remnant is the remains of a star seen to explode in 1054 AD. In the explosion, the outer layers of the star were blasted off, leaving a dense rotating neutron star, or pulsar, in th...
Read article 'Sugar in space'
Sugar in space
The prospects for life in the universe have just got sweeter with the first discovery of a simple sugar molecule in space. Glycolaldehyde can combine with other molecules to form the more complex suga...
Read article 'LEP gets a stay of Higgs execution'
LEP gets a stay of Higgs execution
With possible signs of the elusive Higgs particle on the horizon, on 14 September CERN decided to
extend the life of its flagship LEP electron-positron collider until 2 November 2000.
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 '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.
