Read article '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'
The DAFNE electronpositron collider at Frascati and its KLOE detector are flexing their muscles.
Read article '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'
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'
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'
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...
Read article '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...
Read article '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'
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'
fter seven years of inactivity owing to difficult economic conditions, the electron synchrotron in Yerevan, Armenia, is in operational again.
