Read article 'New eye on the
sky'
The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to launch the satellite in April 2001 and use it to study hard X-ray and gamma-ray sources in the energy range 15 keV to 10 MeV. A full-scale structural and therm...
Read article 'Astrowatch'
Moon sheds light on Sun Moondust contains traces of rare solar gases, krypton and xenon. This discovery, made by researchers at ETH Zurich, promises a unique archive of the life of the Sun. Buffeted b...
Read article 'French green light for LHC civil engineering'
Progress on CERN's next major particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), took another step forward recently when French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin signed the decree allowing LHC civi...
Read article 'KODEL establishes Korea as major physics player'
Marking the emergence of Korea as a major player on the world physics scene, the Korea Detector Laboratory was established this year under director Sung Keun Park of Korea University, Seoul.
Read article 'Experiments wanted for CERN neutrino beam to Gran Sasso'
The Scientific Committees of the SPS at CERN and of the Gran Sasso laboratories will meet at CERN on 324 November for a thorough discussion of the opportunities offered by a neutrino beam pointing...
Read article 'US ‘reneges’ on SSC decision'
US President Bill Clinton has questioned the momentous decision to cancel the Superconducting Supercollider,
in a recent speech to MIT graduates.
Read article 'Physicist dies in air crash'
Klaus Kinder-Geiger, 35, a leading theorist in relativistic heavy-ion physics, died tragically on 2 September aboard the Swissair New York to Geneva flight which crashed near Nova Scotia.
Read article 'Meetings take theorists beyond the Standard Model'
The meeting was organized in Kazimierz, Poland, an old grain-shipping town on the Vistula, this spring
Read article 'Astrowatch'
Galactic downsizing The Milky Way is smaller and slower than astronomers once thought. A group at Southampton, UK, has measured the motions of stars near the Sun and their findings suggest it is 5000 ...
Read article 'SOHO back on track'
SOHO, a NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) collaboration, span out of control on 25 June leaving its solar panels almost edge-on to the Sun and unable to generate power. Since then the panels’ pos...
