Read article 'Pulsars are looking their age'
New pulsar observations could lead to a drastic reappraisal of pulsar ages and evolution. Pulsars, which “blink” regularly like powerful cosmic lighthouses in the depths of galaxies, are u...
Read article 'XMM-Newton measures the hot universe'
A new generation of X-ray observatories is under way to study the hottest parts of the observable universe. Among them the European Space Agency's X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM - now named XMM-New...
Read article 'Mapping quark confinement by exotic particles'
According to our increasing understanding of quark physics, more kinds of particle should exist than are currently known. New experiments at the Jefferson Laboratory are setting out to search for th...
Read article 'No stopping the accelerator'
The recent European Particle Accelerator Conference in Vienna underlined how far and wide particle accelerators have infiltrated into science and technology. Colin Johnson reports.
Read article 'RHIC begins smashing nuclei'
On Monday 12 June a new high-energy machine made its stage debut as operators in the main control room of Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) finally declared victory over their stu...
Read article 'UK phenomenology centre is created'
After several months of negotiations, the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council has announced the establishment of an Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology at Durham University.
Read article 'Meeting the ALICE data challenge'
Imagine trying to record a symphony in a second. That is effectively what CERN's ALICE collaboration will have to do when the laboratory's forthcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) starts up in 2005.
Read article 'Higgs is honoured in Edinburgh'
As part of the recent UK Institute of Physics conference, Particle Physics 2000, in Edinburgh, a special symposium was held to celebrate the 70th year of Peter Higgs, after whom the elusive "Higgs ...
Read article 'CMS contractors receive LHC collaboration awards'
Three contractors involved in CERN's forthcoming CM experiment's magnet project became the first beneficiaries of the collaboration's new awards scheme on 5 June.
Read article 'CERN and Pakistan strengthen agreement'
Signed in Islamabad in May was an addendum to the Memorandum of Understanding between CERN and Pakistan, covering increased Pakistani involvement in the CMS experiment for CERN's LHC collider.
