Read article 'Taking scientific note'
The problem of publishing physics papers that have long lists of authors and reconciling it with the need to give due recognition to the contributions of individuals or small groups has long been reco...
Read article 'New class of publications that will recognize individual contributions in future experiments'
The text of the official statement on the creation of the new "scientific notes" class of publications.
Read article 'Eclipse of a visionary'
Bjørn Wiik, visionary and talented director-general of the DESY Laboratory, Hamburg, died in a domestic accident in February, leaving the laboratory, and a major part of the world's high-energy physi...
Read article 'A tribute to Bjørn Wiik'
Bjørn Wiik's important role in furthering international collaboration was also highlighted at a special gathering at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily.
Read article 'The Sun: a brilliant past and an even brighter future'
The Sun may be the centre of our world, but it is not a typical star. At a special meeting, arranged by l'Observatoire de Paris at the Moët et Chandon manor at Epernay for the total solar eclipse of ...
Read article 'Heavy physics implications'
This year's major particle physics meeting showed that heavy "flavours", whether they are strongly interacting quarks or weakly interacting leptons, are still very much at the cutting edge of today's ...
Read article 'Deep import of deep inelastic scattering'
The quest goes on to try to pin down the detailed inner structure of the proton. The problem is that, the harder physicists look, the more structure they find.
Read article 'Summers in St Croix revisited'
An unlikely blend of geography, sponsorship and physics focus seems to work. Founding director Tom Ferbel describes a 20-year tradition of NATO-sponsored physics study institutes in the West Indies.
Read article '200 GeV achieved for 2000'
In the last 10 years electroweak, physics has been transformed from a subtle effect into big science. At the forefront of this effort has been CERN's LEP electronpositron collider, which is now cele...
Read article 'From Z to ZZ – a decade of electroweak precision'
After having carefully amassed some 18 million Z particles one by one over 10 years, the experiments at CERN's LEP electronpositron collider are now producing Zs in pairs.
