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Gemini to see furthest stars Cosmology gains a twin as the first of two new international telescopes starts observations. The Gemini pair will explore the skies in both the northern and southern hemis...
Read article 'New Fermilab machine dedicated'
The world's newest particle accelerator Fermilab's 150 GeV main injector officially began its career on 1 June.
Read article 'LEP hits 100'
CERN's LEP electronpositron collider walked onto the stage for its 1999 season and, after its customary greeting at the Z resonance (45 GeV per beam), impressed the waiting audience by quickly takin...
Read article 'Magnetic detector sees cosmic-ray anomalies'
From 2 to 12 June 1998, AMS was the primary payload of NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery in orbit 400 km above the Earth.
Read article 'Accelerating power for LHC'
For CERN's new LHC proton collider, superconducting magnets will not be the only super- conducting technology in the 27 km ring.
Read article 'B-factory sees first B events'
On the morning of 26 May 1999, physicists recorded the first events in the large BaBar detector at the asymmetric B-factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
Read article 'Precision physics progress'
CERN's LEP electronpositron collider has underlined the importance of precision measurements in particle physics.
Read article '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...
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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'
A spaceborne particle physics experiment has come up with new information on the distribution of cosmic-ray particles.
