Read article 'Obituaries'
Obituaries
Obituaries for Bianca Monteleoni-Conforto and Rostislav Mikhailovich Ryndin who passed away on 1999.
Read article 'Obituaries'
Read article 'The quintessence of cosmology'
The quintessence of cosmology
The most striking recent development in cosmology has come from supernova studies, which reveal how the expansion rate of the universe changes with time. Rather than slowing down, the universe is ex...
Read article 'Searching for signals from the dark universe'
Searching for signals from the dark universe
At the Italian Gran Sasso National Laboratory, a novel experiment that is in search of signs of the invisible dark matter that pervades our universe reports an intriguing result.
Read article 'A tale of three regions'
A tale of three regions
The impact of CERN, particularly with regard to technology transfer and industrial spin-offs, shows an interesting three-fold pattern that reflects the very different geographical and political regi...
Read article 'In hot pursuit of CP violation'
In hot pursuit of CP violation
Gerry Bauer explains the background to CP violation and points out how a range of new experiments to explore the phenomenon in a new setting should see much larger effects.
Read article 'Meetings highlight boom in accelerator developments'
Meetings highlight boom in accelerator developments
New projects and important upgrades are under way in many laboratories, while technological progress and continual ingenuity augur well for the future.
Read article 'Snapshot of high-energy accelerator progress'
Snapshot of high-energy accelerator progress
A major event in the international accelerator calendar is the triennial International Conference on High Energy Accelerators. The seventeeth such event, which was held recently in Dubna, Russia, p...
Read article 'Neutrinos with a swing'
Neutrinos with a swing
New results suggest that types of neutrinos that were once thought to be distinct could mix. Here Louis Lyons compares this apparently mysterious mechanism to the behaviour of two simple pendula tied ...
Read article 'EXPO 2000'
EXPO 2000
At the Germany DESY laboratory in Hamburg, an ambitious X-ray laser is scheduled to come into regular operation in the year 2003. Next year, on-site EXPO 2000 visitors will be able to see the new m...
Read article 'The return of antimatter'
The return of antimatter
After a three-year pause, antiproton physics gets under way later this year at CERN using the new Antiproton Decelerator ring. These articles look at the AD and its physics programme.
