Read article 'Element 112 is to be given the name ‘copernicium’'
The team that discovered element 112 at GSI Darmstadt has proposed naming it "copernicium", with the element symbol "Cp", in honour of the scientist and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
Read article 'Fermilab’s CDF experiment observes the Ωb–baryon'
The CDF collaboration has announced the observation of a new particle containing three quarks: two strange quarks and a bottom quark.
Read article 'Element 112 receives official recognition'
Element 112, discovered at GSI Darmstadt, has been officially recognized as a new element by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
Read article 'GSI reveals new magic numbers in nuclei'
The shell structure of atomic nuclei with its magic numbers (2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126) for protons and neutrons corresponding to an enhanced binding is a cornerstone in understanding the structure an...
Read article 'Those were the days: discovering the gluon'
John Ellis recalls how theorists and experimentalist friends worked together to find the second gauge boson.
Read article 'CERN Courier Archives: 1959–2009'
A selection of highlights from the past 50 years.
Read article 'Spin and snakes come to the land of Jefferson'
SPIN 2008 brings high-energy and nuclear physicists together to review developments in spin studies.
Read article 'NSCL researchers constrain nuclear symmetry energy at low density'
By analysing collisions between several combinations of tin nuclei, researchers at the Michigan State University National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) have refined the understanding of ...
Read article 'Nara workshop looks at heavy quarkonia'
A report from the latest meeting of the Quarkonium Working Group.
Read article 'ISOLTRAP weighs in with new noble results'
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg , the 18th-century philosopher scientist, said: "To see something new, you must build something new."
