Read article 'Physics acts as a careers stepping stone'
As well as being crucibles of research, today's big physics experiments are also factories for students - almost 700 have graduated from the DELPHI experiment at CERN's LEP electron-positron collide...
Read article 'Proton collaboration is under way in Japan'
In Japan the KEK high-energy physics laboratory and the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute are working together to finalize preparations for a major new high-intensity proton source, with applic...
Read article 'Synchrotron radiation is brighter than ever'
What began life as an unwanted energy loss has become a major research industry. Dominique Cornuéjols of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble looks at the history and accomplishm...
Read article 'How long until the next supernova?'
Neutrinos are always interesting and frequently controversial. The biennial neutrino physics meeting, held this year in Sudbury, Canada, welcomed a major new neutrino detector and showed how the com...
Read article 'Wolfgang Pauli: never to be excluded'
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Wolfgang Pauli, who was born in Vienna on 25 April 1900 and died in Zürich on 15 December 1958. Maurice Jacob describes several events that have been arrang...
Read article 'The beginning of a new science'
Over the 45 years since their discovery, neutrinos have changed from being a physics oddity into one of experimental physics' most powerful tools.
Read article 'Where did the ‘No-go’ theorems go?'
With quark-gluon calculations being extremely difficult, physicists have to use their ingenuity to get results. The most popular approach is to use powerful supercomputers to simulate a discrete sp...
Read article 'Towards the ultimate X-ray source:the X-ray laser'
With their ultrashort wavelengths, X-rays are excellent probes of finestructure. An international team at the DESY laboratory has developed a technique for attaining wavelengths of less than 100 n...
Read article 'Berkeley Lab’s ALS generates femtosecond synchrotron radiation'
A team at Berkeley's Advanced Light Source has shown how a laser time-slicing technique provides a path to experiments with ultrafast time resolution.
Read article 'Watch this space for cosmophysics'
Space, the ultimate scientific frontier, is being opened up by a new generation of satellite-borne precision experiments, many of which use technology perfected in generations of particle physics s...
