Read article 'RHIC handles its first polarized protons'
Soon after commissioning with high-energy beams of heavy nuclei, Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider tested the second string to its bow when it underwent its first two-week test of transfe...
Read article 'Korean physics centre is inaugurated'
On 15 September, the Centre for High-Energy Physics (CHEP) in Korea was formally inaugurated at Kyungpook National University, Taegu.
Read article 'Diamonds are forever…'
At a graduation ceremony at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa, technician Mik Rebak was awarded an honorary MSc for his ingenious work in engineering diamond targets in nuclear an...
Read article 'Charmed particles in Beijing'
The world's largest data sample of J/psi particles produced directly from electron-positron annihilation has been accumulated with the BESII spectrometer at the BEPC collider in Beijing.
Read article 'Physics as you lake it'
At the end of August nearly 100 physicists met in Ambleside in England's beautiful Lake District for the Photon 2000 conference organized by Lancaster University.
Read article 'CAPP off at music and physics festival'
Music and physics combined during the CAPP 2000.
Read article 'Remotest gamma burst seen'
A violent burst of gamma rays detected on 31 January has been pinpointed to a galaxy at a redshift of 4.5, making it the most remote such burst ever observed. Its brightness was enormous – 10 00...
Read article 'Final VLT telescope observes first light'
This autumn saw a double milestone for the European Southern Observatories’ Very Large Telescope (VLT) interferometer at the Paranal observatory, Chile. The fourth and final 8.2 m telescope of t...
Read article 'Chandra shows Crab pulsar rings'
The Crab supernova remnant is the remains of a star seen to explode in 1054 AD. In the explosion, the outer layers of the star were blasted off, leaving a dense rotating neutron star, or pulsar, in th...
Read article 'Sugar in space'
The prospects for life in the universe have just got sweeter with the first discovery of a simple sugar molecule in space. Glycolaldehyde can combine with other molecules to form the more complex suga...
