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.
Read article 'Czech physics scene is growing'
Particle physics in the Czech Republic is maturing fast.
Read article 'Antiprotons spring surprises'
Experiments at CERN's low-energy antiproton ring (LEAR), closed in 1996, brought many very-high-precision and sometimes surprising antiproton results.
Read article 'Celebrating the centenary of a conscience'
Wolfgang Pauli, the "conscience of physics" was born in Vienna on 25 April 1900.
Read article 'Youngest radio galaxies observed'
A new class of baby radio galaxy has been discovered using very long baseline interferometry. The sources, dubbed compact symmetric objects, are the youngest radio galaxies ever observed – a mer...
Read article 'Magnetic fields point to high-energy rays'
New evidence for strong intergalactic magnetic fields may help to solve the mystery of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays. These particles can reach energies of more than 1020 eV – 100 million times a...
Read article 'Large Magellanic Cloud X-ray signal lost in black hole'
Newton, the European Space Agency’s new X-ray observatory (April p11), was undergoing routine calibration, imaging a known, stable X-ray source in the Large Magellanic Clouds, when all of a sudd...
Read article 'LEP achieves record energy levels'
CERN's flagship accelerator, the 27 km Large Electron Positron collider (LEP), began its final year in fine style in April colliding beams at a record 104 GeV per beam, just three weeks after start-u...
Read article 'Canadian isotope source is to be upgraded'
The new Isotope Separator and Accelerator is now operational at the Canadian TRIUMF laboratory, producing intense beams of short-lived, exotic nuclei.
