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...
Read article 'The grid is set to grapple with large computations'
Particle physics has always pushed computing and computing techniques to the limit - witness the World Wide Web developed at CERN. Continuing this tradition, particle physics at...
Read article 'Dynamic particle physics in the UK'
The European Committee for Future Accelerators, which met in London in March, was impressed by the vitality of particle physics in the UK.
Read article 'First test beams are delivered for the LHC'
The experiments being prepared for CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) received their first beams in May and preliminary results are expected soon.
Read article 'CERN Council sets the stage for the LHC'
The LHC is now the main focus of activity at CERN, as components for the accelerator arrive at the laboratory from around the world.
Read article 'Data Grid project gets EU funding'
Plans for the next generation of network-based information-handling systems took a major step forward when the European Union's Fifth Framework Information Society Technologies pr...
Read article 'Experiments revisit the quark-gluon soup'
The main goal of this research is to explore the transition from ordinary hadronic matter to quark-gluon plasma - matter as it is thought to have existed at the birth of the univ...
Read article 'Can gas detectors still compete with silicon?'
The big topic of debate at the 9th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation held in February was whether gaseous detectors can still compete with semiconductor technology.
Read article 'Science knows no boundaries'
Physics provides a stage for international collaboration. At the opening of a recent exhibition at the Russian Duma, presented by CERN and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Researc...
