Read article 'The final curtain falls on LEP'
After a concerted push by physicists to extend the running of CERN's LEP 27 km electron-positron collider into 2001, the decision has been taken to close the machine for good.
Read article 'CMS calorimeter begins to take shape'
Research institutes all over the world are busy providing components for the experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
Read article 'ATLAS becomes a film star'
An 18 minute video entitled The ATLAS Experiment has been declared overall winner of the 2000 MIF-Sciences Scientific Film Box Office contest. The award-winning film explains how more than 1800 phys...
Read article 'Riken-RAL notch up another decade'
The 10 year collaboration between RIKEN, the Japanese Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, and the UK Rutherford Appleton Laboratory to create an intense muon source has been renewed for ano...
Read article 'VLT investigates cosmic shear'
Astronomers have mapped the universe’s dark matter in 50 independent directions using the European Southern Observatories’ Very Large Telescope (VLT). Their results, announced in December,...
Read article 'ESA supports physics missions'
Last autumn the European Space Agency’s Science Programme Committee met to define the priorities for 2008-2013. Its announced package included funding for two missions to study fundamental physi...
Read article 'LEP reaps a final harvest'
CERN's LEP electron-positron collider stubbornly refused to lie down quietly in 2000.
Read article 'Giant step for the ATLAS magnet'
The ATLAS collaboration, which is preparing to do physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, is building a particle detector like none before.
Read article 'Long haul journey gets ‘under’ way'
On 20 October, CERN director-general Luciano Maiani bravely took over the controls of an excavator for the groundbreaking of the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso project.
Read article 'SLAC B-factory exceeds design luminosity'
The PEP-II B-factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) completed its first experimental run at the end of October after achieving record collision rates and producing more than 23 mi...
