Read article 'Precision physics progress'
Precision physics progress
CERN's LEP electronpositron collider has underlined the importance of precision measurements in particle physics.
Read article 'Precision physics progress'
Read article 'Space agency looks to the future'
Space agency looks to the future
“The decisions taken here in Brussels will set the direction for the agency for the next five years and beyond,” said European Space Agency (ESA) director Antonio Rodota, following a meeti...
Read article 'Astrowatch'
Astrowatch
Planck and FIRST given go-ahead The planning of two major astrophysics missions has been approved by ESA’s scientific policy committee. The satellites Planck and FIRST will be launched together ...
Read article 'Space Shuttle experiment reveals unexplained particle behaviour'
Space Shuttle experiment reveals unexplained particle behaviour
A spaceborne particle physics experiment has come up with new information on the distribution of cosmic-ray particles.
Read article 'Major agreement made with China'
Major agreement made with China
Underlining the worldwide involvement in the programme at CERN's LHC collider, a milestone agreement brings funding from Chinese bodies for the LHC CMS experiment.
Read article 'DAFNE and KLOE’s kaons'
DAFNE and KLOE’s kaons
The DAFNE electronpositron collider at Frascati and its KLOE detector are flexing their muscles.
Read article 'Countering the beam-beam effect'
Countering the beam-beam effect
A theme that is common to many new particle colliders is the determined push to extend the physics reach by boosting the collision rate (luminosity).
Read article 'Mirabelle’s 30th anniversary celebrated in Russia'
Mirabelle’s 30th anniversary celebrated in Russia
Last year marked the 30th anniversary of the inception of the scientific research programme of the Mirabelle liquid-hydrogen bubble chamber, which was a joint effort between the Institute for High-Ene...
Read article 'Understanding deconfinement'
Understanding deconfinement
Simulating the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang, strongly interacting particles at high temperature or density are expected to produce weakly interacting "deconfined" quarks and gluons the famo...
Read article 'Galactic record set'
Galactic record set
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the most distant, and therefore the youngest, object ever observed. The galaxy existed when the universe was only 5% of its present age (re...
