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...
Read article 'First light at the
VLT'
The European Southern Observatory’s VLT at Cerro Paranal in the Chilean Atacama desert should be complete in 2005. Its four 8.2 m telescopes and three 1.8 m telescopes will make up the most sens...
