Read article 'Marking the end of the first proton run'
At 6 a.m. on 17 December, operators ended the LHC’s first three-year-long run for proton physics with a new performance milestone. In the preceding days, the space between prot...
Read article 'Quarks on the menu in Munich'
400 theorists and experimentalists from all around the world convened in Munich on 8–12 October to discuss developments in the theory of strong interactions.
Read article 'Linear-collider technologies for all'
The 2012 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium provided a broader stage for discussions.
Read article 'Lepton Photon goes back to its roots in Hamburg'
The biennial conference provided its usual comprehensive review of particle physics.
Read article 'Knowledge transfer: from creation to innovation'
Insight into the generation of know-how in five LHC experiments.
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 'Vertex 2007 prepares for the radiation challenge'
A workshop at Lake Placid focused on developments in vertex detectors.
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.
