Read article 'Quaero makes particle detector datasets available for all'
A major step towards "transparent" particle physics has come from a new scheme that opens up data collected by the D0 experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron proton-antiproton collider.
Read article 'Astroparticle physicists gain increased support'
Understanding what happens in the largest objects of the universe in terms of interactions between the smallest particles of matter might seem a tall order, but funding agencies see that, as well ...
Read article 'Asia programme offers postgraduate grants'
The appointment is for one year, which might exceptionally be extended to two years.
Read article 'The international jigsaw puzzle'
As well as the 20 nations of the CERN family, several other nations further afield are making major contributions to the laboratory's flagship Large Hadron Collider.
Read article 'TESLA project goes public'
The DESY laboratory in Hamburg recently published plans for a superconducting linear electron-positron collider: TESLA. This article amplifies these ambitious plans and outlines the objectives of th...
Read article 'EC to fund project for faster optical detectors'
The project, known as "Impecable", will fund the development of more efficient and faster optical detectors by the newly formed consortium, leading to their subsequent production by Photek and Electr...
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 programme concluded ne...
Read article 'JAERI/KEK project gets government approval'
Phase 1 of the new joint project between the Japanese Atomic Energy Research Institute and the national KEK laboratory on high-intensity proton accelerators has been given the go-ahead to begin const...
Read article 'Physics meeting reflects Vietnam’s prosperity'
The latest of the now traditional Rencontres du Vietnam, organized by Trân Than Vân, took place in Hanoi last summer.
Read article 'Strength in numbers: particle physics goes global'
Particle physics has been "big science" for a long time. Its ambitious projects are also becoming more and more international, for it is only this way that the necessary resources can be amassed. A r...
