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 'The CERN openlab: a novel testbed for the Grid'
A new model for partnership between CERN and industry is both integrating and testing emerging computer technologies for the LHC Computing Grid.
Read article 'LHC magnets pass two milestones'
The new year at CERN has seen good news for two types of magnet that will be essential to focusing beams in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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 'Czech physics scene is growing'
Particle physics in the Czech Republic is maturing fast.
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 'Model magnet for CERN’s LHC reaches 250 T/m in Japan'
Special superconducting quadrupole magnets for squeezing the beams at CERN's LHC collider have been successfully developed at the Japanese KEK laboratory as part of the LHC co-oper...
Read article 'Weapons abandoned in favour of detectors'
The Cold War once absorbed a tremendous amount of resources and talent on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Particle physics is now at the forefront of a major, international effor...
Read article 'Heavy implications for the first second'
After a decade of running, the results from CERN's research programme with high-energy nuclear beams provide tantalizing glimpses of mechanisms that shaped our universe.
Read article 'Scintillations in Seattle'
Making invisible physics visible has always called for ingenuity. The techniques can also lead to important applications in other areas. Two meetings in Seattle offered an update...
