Read article 'High schools focus on the extreme universe'
James Pinfold reports on the large number of projects that are forging a connection between research in ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and practical scientific experience in schools...
Read article 'Trieste focuses on hadrons'
A meeting at the ICTP in Trieste brought together participants from the hadronic-physics and heavy-ion communities.
Read article 'LBNL celebrates its 75th anniversary with style'
The lab that began life as the home of Lawrence's 27 inch cyclotron has grown into a multi-disciplinary research centre with a promising future. Spencer Klein takes a look at LBNL...
Read article 'Hard Probes conference focuses on jet quenching'
The latest jet-quenching results were a major topic of discussion at the second conference dedicated to the use of hard probes for investigating the hot and dense quark–gluon mat...
Read article 'Cracow meeting looks forward to the LHC'
As preparations for the start-up of the LHC continue to gather pace, a meeting in Cracow gave physicists the opportunity to take time to look to the exciting physics in store.
Read article 'The EEE Project: big science goes to school'
Antonino Zichichi tells Bob Swarup about his initiative to bring frontier research in physics into the heart of Italian schools and to encourage the next generation of physicists.
Read article 'String theory meets heavy ions in Shanghai'
The latest experimental results from the heavy-ion programmes at RHIC and CERN's SPS were the focus of attention at QM2006 in Shanghai. For the first time there were discussions ab...
Read article 'The LHC: illuminating the high-energy frontier'
During the next few years, discoveries at CERN's Large Hadron Collider will revolutionize our understanding of matter, forces and space. John Ellis looks at what might lie in store...
Read article 'A new challenge for particle physics'
TRIUMF's new director Nigel Lockyer looks to the future of co-operation in particle physics, and Canada's role in this increasingly global adventure.
Read article 'PHYSTAT-LHC combines statistics and discovery'
With the LHC due to start running next year, the PHYSTAT-LHC workshop on Statistical Issues for LHC Physics provided a timely opportunity to discuss the statistical techniques to b...
