Read article 'Silver isotope exhibits exotic radioactivity'
Since soon after its discovery by Henri Becquerel in 1896, radioactivity has been known to involve the emission of helium nuclei (alphas), electrons (betas) and photons (gammas).
Read article 'CERN consolidates links with Pakistan'
On 25 January Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan, visited CERN with five government ministers, Parvez Butt, president of Pakistan's Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), and an eminent former preside...
Read article 'Going beyond the Standard Model'
A five-part workshop has been launched at CERN to study the interplay between the physics of particle flavour and the physics achievable at particle colliders.
Read article 'Microlensing detects most Earth-like exoplanet'
A planet of a mass of only about five times that of the Earth has been discovered at a distance of about 20,000 light years, not far from the centre of the Milky Way. It circles its parent low-mass st...
Read article 'LHC’s installation makes progress'
CERN's director-general, Robert Aymar praised the immense progress made towards the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project when he addressed the 135th session of the CERN Council on 16 December 2005.
Read article 'Open-access moves ahead for physics'
Eighty representatives from several major physics publishers, European particle-physics laboratories, learned societies, funding agencies and authors from Europe and the US met at CERN on 7-8 December...
Read article 'Super-Kamiokande gets full refit'
Operation of the Super-Kamiokande (SK) II detector in Japan was terminated last October after three years of running to begin a full restoration of the detector.
Read article 'Belle achieves new luminosity record'
By mid-afternoon on 22 November, the Belle experiment at KEK had accumulated an integrated luminosity of 500 fb-1 of electron-positron collision data.
Read article 'Superconducting RF technology forum unites research and industry'
Representatives from European research and industry have established the European Industry Forum for Accelerators with Superconducting RF Technology, EIFast.
Read article 'HERA hits record annual luminosity'
In its 2005 run, DESY's HERA collider achieved the largest integrated luminosity it has ever produced in one year.
