Read article 'CANDLE set to light up Armenian science'
Originally in the running to host SESAME, Armenia launched its own synchrotron project when Jordan was chosen as the location for the Middle Eastern regional facility.
Read article 'INTEGRAL prepares for lift-off'
The launch of the International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) is scheduled for 17 October.
Read article 'Committee affirms LHC as global priority'
Following the funding shortfall for CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that emerged last September, the laboratory established five task-forces to examine ways of redeploying resources to the new acce...
Read article 'Canada steps onto the international stage'
Canadian particle physics received a boost earlier this year when the Canadian Foundation for Innovation announced support for nine infrastructure projects for international research.
Read article 'German Science Council endorses TESLA'
On 15 July 2002 the German Science Council published its evaluation of large-scale facilities for basic research in natural science.
Read article 'CERN-Asia programme offers grants to young postgraduates'
Within the framework of the CERN-Asia Fellows and Associates programme, CERN offers three grants every year to East, Southeast and South Asia postgraduates under the age of 33, enabling them to partic...
Read article 'Meeting heralds global GW detector network'
As the curtain is being raised on today's generation of gravitational wave (GW) detectors, the individual project teams met to consider future detectors and the goal of running the global ensemble of ...
Read article 'Muon magnetism study reveals new twist'
In the latest twist to the US Brookhaven laboratory's high-precision muon magnetism experiment, researchers announced in July a result slightly at odds with the Standard Model of particle physics.
Read article 'DESY turns storage ring into light source'
The new light source, PETRA III, will run at 6 GeV with a current of more than 100 mA.
Read article 'UK signs up to ESO'
On 1 July, the UK officially became a member of the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
