Read article 'Harping on about hadrons'
The Hadron Production Experiment at the CERN PS proton synchrotron is a collaboration of institutes in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Russia, Spain and the UK as well as CERN and the JI...
Read article 'Gemini mirror goes on the road'
Particle physicists are familiar with the trials of moving large, unwieldy pieces of equipment on epic voyages around the globe. They are not alone. The 24 ton, 8.1 m mirror of the Gemini South telesc...
Read article 'Free-floating planets prove too light for dark matter'
The most sensitive search ever undertaken for small substellar objects has revealed 13 free-floating planets and more than 100 young brown dwarf stars in an active star-forming region of the Orion Neb...
Read article 'NASA to work with Stanford for major astrophysics project'
In a move that underlines the growing requirement for sophisticated hardware for precision physics experiments in space, NASA has announced an award to Stanford University for the development of the...
Read article 'B race hots up'
PEP-II achieved this figure late last year and KEKB reached it in February.
Read article 'JINR-Russia agreement is ratified'
Under a new ruling, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, near Moscow, has the same legal status of an international organization in Russia as CERN enjoys in its host countries.
Read article 'Taking a new close look at the proton’s weak magnetism'
Ever since Otto Stern surprised his colleagues in 1933 by announcing that the proton's magnetic moment was some three times as large as expected, physicists have puzzled over the origin of this effect...
Read article 'XMM Newton reveals first images'
The first images have been captured using the new X-ray Multi-Mirror (XMM) space telescope, now called the Newton observatory. The telescope was successfully launched last December (CERN CourierJanuar...
Read article 'Workshop stresses potential of space technology'
April sees a joint workshop on fundamental physics in space held at CERN and organized jointly by CERN and the European Space Agency (ESA).
Read article 'Discovering new dimensions at LHC'
In an entirely new energy range and with its special experimental conditions, the LHC could also discover other new physics effects.
