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Astrowatch
Water, water everywhere The third mission in NASA’s small explorer programme was launched last December. The Submillimetre-Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) is designed to study the chemical compo...
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Read article 'The seeds of East-West collaboration'
The seeds of East-West collaboration
It is no accident that Russia has become a major partner in the CERN programme.
Read article 'Ending the century on a century'
Ending the century on a century
During the current shutdown, CERN's LEP electronpositron collider is undergoing a major overhaul and is also being fitted with even more superconducting radiofrequency accelerating cavities, in or...
Read article 'Yerevan synchrotron is back in action'
Yerevan synchrotron is back in action
fter seven years of inactivity owing to difficult economic conditions, the electron synchrotron in Yerevan, Armenia, is in operational again.
Read article 'Ready for the Bs'
Ready for the Bs
In February, physicists at SLAC, Stanford, successfully finished commissioning the PEP-II B-factory.
Read article 'CMS experiment crystal clear'
CMS experiment crystal clear
As a result of the technological problems to be solved and the global level of participation in the major experiments at CERN's LHC proton collider, supply and manufacturing has to explore unusual so...
Read article 'Leader of the PAC'
Leader of the PAC
his years's Particle Accelerator Conference in New York City on 29 March - 2 April included news from several major new machines that are beginning to flex their muscles.
Read article 'What’s the quark matter?'
What’s the quark matter?
Careful analysis of data collected by the NA50 experiment studying high-energy heavy-ion collisions at CERN shows clear signs of new behaviour, suggesting that under these conditions the colliding nu...
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Gamma-ray bursts The most powerful objects in the universe are also the most mysterious. Gamma-ray bursts can emit more energy in a few seconds than all of the 1011 stars in our galaxy emit over a few...
Read article 'Michael Witherell to direct Fermilab'
Michael Witherell to direct Fermilab
Michael Witherell, from the the University of California, Santa Barbara, will succeed John Peoples as director of Fermilab on 1 July. The search for a new Fermilab director began last year, when John ...
