Read article 'LHC must keep to 2007 start-up'
At the 131st session of Council on 17 December, CERN's director-general Robert Aymar confirmed that the organization's top priority is to maintain the goal of starting up the Large Hadron Collider (LH...
Read article 'The heart of ATLAS takes shape'
Particle physicists in the UK have completed the first critical element of the largest semiconductor tracker ever built, the ATLAS SCT, which is to form the innermost core of the giant detector that w...
Read article 'Carbon sheds light on star creation'
New measurements of unstable nuclei caught in the act of decay have gone a long way towards resolving long-standing questions about the triple-alpha process that creates carbon nuclei.
Read article 'Lab rolls out the red carpet for prestigious official ceremony'
Heads of state, representatives from many countries, and scientists and engineers from CERN's past, present and future research in particle physics attended the laboratory's official 50th anniversary ...
Read article 'Spin-flipping crosses the Atlantic'
After the venerable Cooler Ring at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF) passed on to accelerator heaven in autumn 2002, the polarized beam team, led by Alan Krisch, crossed the Atlantic to...
Read article 'Indian chips on track for ALICE'
As an observer state of CERN, India is collaborating in many aspects of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project - building components of the accelerator as well as constructing detectors for various e...
Read article 'Does the motion of the solar system affect the microwave sky?'
A team from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and CERN has discovered surprising evidence that the largest-scale features of the microwave sky seem to be correlated with both the mot...
Read article 'CERN’s 50th anniversary open day attracts record number of visitors'
When CERN opened its doors to the public for its open day on 16 October, the laboratory took on the air of a county fair.
Read article 'High-precision masses test the Standard Model at ISOLTRAP'
The atomic mass of a nucleus is important in a wide range of physics, as it conveys information on the nuclear binding energy. It is a unique property of each of the more than 3000 known nuclides. Now...
Read article 'Two dedicated satellites reveal the Earth’s pull on space-time'
The general relativistic prediction of the Lense-Thirring effect has been confirmed to a precision of less than 10%. The result was obtained by measurements of the position of two satellites over a pe...
