Read article 'Computing is put on the MAP'
Computing is put on the MAP
The University of Liverpool has just commissioned a major computer system that is dedicated to the simulation of data for current and future scientific experiments.
Read article 'Computing is put on the MAP'
Read article 'Bohrium finds a place in the Table'
Bohrium finds a place in the Table
An international collaboration of radiochemists has carried out the first chemical study of the transuranic element bohrium (atomic number 107) using the Philips cyclotron at the Swiss Paul Scherrer I...
Read article 'The Hubble century'
The Hubble century
The name of Hubble will be eternally linked with 20th-century astronomy. At the beginning of the 20th century astronomers knew of planets and stars, and anything else was called a nebula (derived from...
Read article 'A masing new ruler'
A masing new ruler
Observations of astronomical water masers have provided us with a new measure of distance in space. Maser emission was detected by a team using the US Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), from material ro...
Read article 'Neutrinos will cross the Alps'
Neutrinos will cross the Alps
In a move that significantly extends the scope of European collaboration in particle physics, CERN is collaborating with the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics in a new project.
Read article 'LHC workshop studies new physics'
LHC workshop studies new physics
With construction work for CERN's LHC and its big detectors under way a workshop, Standard Model Physics at the LHC, was held at CERN.
Read article 'CERN finalizes new agreement with ISTC'
CERN finalizes new agreement with ISTC
A collaboration agreement between CERN and the International Science and Technology Centre, finalized in November and worth some 12 million Swiss francs, is a large step forward in CERN-ISTC co-operat...
Read article 'Two electron guns fire at Jefferson'
Two electron guns fire at Jefferson
Spin-oriented (polarized) electron beams are high on the agenda at the Jefferson Laboratory, Newport News, Virginia.
Read article 'Heidelberg merger forms Kirchhoff Institute'
Heidelberg merger forms Kirchhoff Institute
The former Institutes for High-Energy Physics and for Applied Physics at the University of Heidelberg have recently joined forces to become the new Kirchhoff Institute for Physics.
Read article 'Neural computation points the way'
Neural computation points the way
Neural computation - analysing data by simulating the way the brain works - is another area of application where high-energy physics is in the vanguard of development.
