Read article 'Decision to flood hits US underground science plans'
The announcement that pumping will stop at the Homestake mine has clouded the future of the favoured site for a proposed major underground laboratory in the US.
Read article 'The legacy of the bubble chamber'
A recent one-day meeting in Bologna looked back on the era of the bubble chamber, and recalled its technical achievements and main discoveries, as well as the sociology behind its development.
Read article 'Testing times for strings'
The "hidden" dimensions of string theory may be much larger than was previously thought and may soon come within experimental reach, together with the strings themselves. Ignatios Antoniadis gives an ...
Read article 'Developing countries and CERN'
John Ellis looks at what CERN can offer scientists - and the wider society - in developing countries.
Read article 'The antiproton: a subatomic actor with many roles'
From providing a window on fundamental symmetries to probing the strong interaction, LEAP'03 covered the many parts played by low-energy antiprotons from accelerators, as John Eades reports.
Read article 'CERN-Asia Fellows and Associates Programme'
CERN offers three grants every year to East, Southeast and South Asia* postgraduates under the age of 33, enabling them to participate in its scientific programme in the areas of experimental and theo...
Read article 'A new life for Indiana’s cyclotron'
The Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF) was originally built as a laboratory for medium-energy nuclear physics, and began operations in 1975. By the 1990s the research programme had begun to ...
Read article 'The ring on the parking lot'
Thirty years ago, a handful of tenacious physicists put up a $5 million storage ring on a parking lot at SLAC. Shawna Williams reflects on its glorious past and its promising future.
Read article 'Neutrinos: universal messengers at all scales'
The beautiful interior of the San Vidal church in Venice was the setting for a workshop on neutrino telescopes, which looked at the many messages neutrinos carry.
Read article 'ANTARES succeeds with underwater connections'
A prototype ANTARES detection line is returning data after a two-day mission by the Nautile submersible to make the necessary connections on the sea-bed.
