Read article 'The Gigabyte System Network is demonstrated at CERN'
To mark the major international Telecom '99 exhibition in Geneva, CERN staged a demonstration of the world's fastest computer networking standard, the Gigabyte System Network.
Read article 'Latest news from the early universe'
This month the first elements of the Very Small Array will be installed on Mount Teide in Tenerife. This is one of a number of new projects studying the cosmic microwave background.
Read article 'Astrowatch'
New study of distant quasars Subaru, Japan’s new 8.3 m telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii (CERN Courier March), is being used for a new study of gravitationally lensed quasars. A luminosity of mor...
Read article 'WASA meson detector inaugurated'
During the recent PANIC99 particle/nuclear physics conference, CELSIUS/WASA, a new detector facility for the CELSIUS cooler storage ring, was inaugurated.
Read article 'ISAC achieves 10 µA'
The new isotope separator and accelerator facility at the Canadian TRIUMF laboratory passed a milestone on 28 July when the proton current on target was raised to 10 µA, making it the highest intensi...
Read article 'Cosmology not constant'
A simulation of the evolution of the universe suggests that it is expanding at an accelerating rate. This is more evidence for the existence of Einstein’s cosmological constant a kind of ...
Read article 'Astrowatch'
Millennium ‘delayed’ by space mission to Saturn Hold the champagne! Millennium celebrations throughout the world will be delayed. The culprit is the Cassini-Huygens space mission, which fl...
Read article 'First K2K events seen at KEK lab'
This is the first step towards the verification of the neutrino oscillation results given by the Super-Kamiokande last year.
Read article 'MINOS to explore neutrino mass'
Deep in a former Minnesota iron mine, scientists and government officials recently wielded pickaxes to chip away, at least symbolically, at the mysteries surrounding the subatomic particles known as n...
Read article 'Lepton-photon symposium at Stanford'
The major international focus of high-energy physics in odd-numbered years is the International Symposium on LeptonPhoton Interactions at High Energies, which took place this year on 9-14 August at ...
