Read article 'SLAC B-Factory makes progress'
After achieving its first electronpositron collisions this summer, the PEP-II B-Factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center was formally dedicated on 23 October.
Read article 'Brookhaven completes magnet production'
A recent celebration in the assembly area at Brookhaven's RHIC Magnet Facility marked the completion of magnet production for the laboratory's RHIC Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
Read article 'NESTOR approved'
On 10 August, the Greek government formally approved the establishment of a national NESTOR Institute for Deep Sea Research, Technology and Neutrino Astroparticle Physics.
Read article 'More light on the Cherenkov effect'
Cherenkov radiation is one of the main techniques for particle identification, but details of the underlying theory are still under debate.
Read article 'Web tool LIGHTs up code'
CERN's Information and Programming Technology group has exploited the World Wide Web to make it easier to keep track of masses of computer code.
Read article 'Explosion forces rethink on stellar collapse'
An exceptionally powerful explosion in a nearby galaxy has led astronomers to re-examine their theories of stellar evolution. What is more, the explosion was co-incident with a burst of gamma rays, pr...
Read article 'Astrowatch'
Infrared reveals early universe Observations using the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) show that the first galaxies to form were far brighter than astronomers thought. The results were presented at a...
Read article 'Beauty is in the eye of the LHC beholder'
The LHCb experiment has been formally approved for CERN's LHC collider.
Read article 'Final magnet installed at Fermilab'
On 24 September, US Energy Secretary Bill Richardson put the finishing touches to the installation of the 366th and final 20-ton dipole magnet to steer the beams in Fermilab's new 150 GeV, 2.25 mile...
Read article 'Cosmic mystery'
A recent paper by Glennys Farrar of Rutgers and Peter Biermann of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn suggests interesting possibilities for the orbits of cosmic particles.
