Read article 'BEARS deliver radioactive species'
BEARS is led by Joseph Cerny, Professor of Chemistry at the University of California and LBNL Nuclear Science Division, with other researchers from the Nuclear Science Division, the Life Sciences Divi...
Read article 'New meson physics pushes on in 2000'
On 9-10 December a symposium at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, will mark the 20th anniversary of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, the CLEO particle detector and the Cornell High-Energy Synchr...
Read article 'Italian astronomy enters new era'
Astronomers in Italy will soon have a new coordinating body the National Institute of Astrophysics to regroup the 12 national observatories and strengthen ties with university astronomy ...
Read article 'Astrowatch'
Galileo telescope Galileo, the new 3.5 m Italian national telescope, will soon be open to astronomers. Situated on the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in the Canary Islands at an altitude of 2400 m...
Read article 'Nobel Prize for Physics 1999'
The last Nobel Prize for Physics this century goes to Gerardus 't Hooft of Utrecht and Martinus Veltman of Bilthoven in the Netherlands, "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interacti...
Read article 'Neutron facility to open at CERN'
A new facility is set to join the CERN experimental programme from April 2000.
Read article 'An even greater step for LEP'
On 24 September 1999 the French authorities gave their formal permission for CERN's LEP electronpositron collider to run at beam energies of up to 105 GeV.
Read article 'Assembly of CMS magnet begins'
The world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet for the CMS experiment at CERN's LHC collider recently took an important step towards completion when the first ring of its barrel yoke was ass...
Read article 'Experiments rechart the Big Bang'
In the beginning there were quarks and gluons the "quarkgluon plasma". Density and temperature decreased as the universe expanded and cooled.
Read article 'ECRIS feeds transuranic nuclei experiments'
These exotica nuclei are produced by bombarding a suitable nuclear target with a high-energy beam of specially prepared nuclei and studying the resulting decay chains in a suitable detector.
