Read article 'VLT identifies white dwarfs with record orbiting speeds'
Two white dwarf stars have entered the record books with the fastest orbital period known for any stellar system. It takes just 5 min for these two Earth-sized stars to orbit each other – that&#...
Read article 'Galaxy redefines reionization epoch'
Lyman alpha emission has been detected from a galaxy of redshift z = 6.56. If confirmed, this discovery pushes back the limits of when reionization could have occurred in the early universe. The dista...
Read article 'Helping the AMS experiment to detect antiparticles in space'
Particle physicists involved in the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment are eagerly scanning data recorded during a December 2001 NASA space shuttle mission.
Read article 'Snake charming induces spin-flip'
The team, which includes physicists from Michigan and Indiana in the US, IHEP-Protvino in Russia and KEK in Japan, has charmed a string of magnets known as a Siberian snake to spin-flip stored protons...
Read article 'LEP collider comes to the end of the tunnel'
A 14 month programme to dismantle CERN's Large Electron-Positron collider (LEP) reached its conclusion in February, when the last LEP half-dipole was removed from the collider tunnel.
Read article 'Underground lab open for business'
The expansion of the University of Minnesota's Soudan underground laboratory is now complete.
Read article 'Record-breaking magnet has five-tesla field'
A group of laboratories in Grenoble has built a permanent magnet that produces a world-record field of 5 T at room temperature.
Read article 'Polarized protons collide in RHIC'
The Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) collided its first polarized protons last November.
Read article 'Mad about physics in Antananarivo'
The Malagasy capital of Antananarivo welcomed HEP-MAD '01, Madagascar's first conference on high-energy physics, at the end of September last year
Read article 'The end of the universe may be frozen in time'
The long-term future of extragalactic astronomy could be dark and dreary, according to new theoretical research. Such a prediction might have not have been taken so seriously, had it not originated fr...
