Read article 'Korea and CERN make plans for future scientific collaborations'
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed recently in Seoul between a CERN delegation comprising the director of research Roger Cashmore, the advisor on non-member states John Ellis, the CMS resourc...
Read article 'First major CMS production is over'
The first major contract for the CMS experiment at CERN's LHC was completed last month when the last of 120 forged iron blocks rolled off the production line at the Izhora factory, St Petersburg.
Read article 'CLAS at Jefferson offers a new subnuclear view'
In Experimental Hall B at the Jefferson Laboratory, Newport News, Virginia, the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer has opened a new "window" on the building blocks of matter: mesons, nuclei and n...
Read article 'UK theorists investigate new trends'
The traditional annual UK theory meeting at the Rutherford Laboratory is a good showcase for new theory trends.
Read article '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 '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 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'
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'
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'
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.
