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The world’s biggest neutrino detector gets ready for physics

After a successful construction season over the Austral summer at the South Pole, the IceCube detector array is now preparing to tackle real physics. Spencer Klein reports.

Closed-loop technology speeds up beam control

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermilab and CERN have together developed a feedback-control system that is already speeding up operations at RHIC and should prove invaluable in commissioning the LHC....

Prague meeting focuses on colliders and cosmic rays

The C2CR meeting in Prague targeted the interface between cosmic-ray physics and the current and future results from accelerators and colliders.

HERMES looks for final pieces in nucleon-spin puzzle

Having successfully fulfilled its mission to track down the quark contribution to the nucleon's spin, HERMES now aims at providing an even more complete picture of nucleon spin.

The HERMES gas target: 10 years on

Erhard Steffens describes the various phases in a successful decade of operation of the HERMES gas target, which may live on with future use for antiproton polarization.

Nucleon form factors stride into the future

At a three-day meeting at Frascati, physicists from around the world met to discuss the implications of striking new results on the nucleon space-like and time-like form factors.

JINR celebrates 50 years

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research celebrates its 50th anniversary as a renowned international intergovernmental scientific research organisation.

Germany seeks to fulfil astroparticle aspirations

Axel Lindner reports on the fourth biennial workshop about the status, perspectives and future prospects of research in the field of astroparticle physics in Germany.