LHC start-up announced
Robert Aymar, director general of CERN, gave his talk on the forthcoming Large Hadron Collider with veteran poise. The particle accelerator, he said, will reveal the origin of mass, the nature of dark...
Read article: Neutron lab comes back from the dead
Neutron lab comes back from the dead
Towards the ESS
A little bang at SLAC
What’s the best way to determine the structure of a molecule that cannot be integrated within a periodic lattice? Blow the heck out of it using x-ray pulses from the Linac Coherent Light Source ...
Read article: Diamond light source ready for business
Diamond light source ready for business
UK synchrotron opens its doors to users
Read article: ITER fusion reactor gets final approval
ITER fusion reactor gets final approval
Multinational consortium signs formal agreement to build research facility
Fermilab names new director
Pier Oddone from Berkeley will take over from next July
Time for big decisions
Important choices have to be made this year
Read article: Physicists push themselves to the limit
Physicists push themselves to the limit
Frost bite, no toilets and polar bears - these are some of the hazards that physicists face when working in hostile environments. But, as Paula Gould reports, they seem to enjoy it
Antimatter factory opens at CERN
Unlike most experiments at CERN, the £3.2 million Antimatter Decelerator (AD) is designed to slow down particles rather than accelerate them. The antiprotons are created when high-energy protons ...
DIAMOND: it’s not too late
The Millennium Dome in London – a £758m high-tech visitor attraction that was built largely with government money – is a national laughing stock in the UK. But at least the Dome opene...
