Read article 'Marsters of science'
Two recent talks at CERN focused on the problems of a voyage to Mars, where novel propulsion techniques are called for to overcome the logistical problems of otherwise having to construct huge space ...
Read article 'CERNAsia Fellows and Associates Programme'
Within the framework of the CERNAsia Fellows and Associates Programme, CERN offers three grants every year to young East, Southeast and South Asia postgraduates under 33, to participate in its sc...
Read article 'Work on triangle anomaly wins Dirac Medal'
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste has awarded its Dirac Medal this year to Stephen Adler of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and Roman Jackiw of MI...
Read article 'Long hot summer'
Smooth running at CERN's LEP electronpositron collider, now at 189 GeV collision energy (94.5 GeV per beam), is reflected in a fast climbing, integrated luminosity curve.
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.
