Read article 'DONUT comes to neutrino town'
A neutrino experiment at Fermilab has seen the first direct evidence for the tau neutrino, the most elusive of the 12 particles that make up the Standard Model picture of the fundamental structure o...
Read article 'Energen has a winning plan'
Energen of Billerica, Massachusetts, has been selected as winner of the WPI Venture Forum's 7th Annual Business Plan Contest.
Read article 'Synthetic neutrinos appear to disappear'
Announced at the recent Neutrino 2000 meeting in Sudbury, Canada, were the first results from the K2K long-distance neutrino beam experiment in Japan. For the first time, synthetic neutrinos made in...
Read article 'Antiprotons come with all the trappings'
Now coming into action for physics is CERN's new Antiproton Decelerator, opening another chapter of CERN's tradition of physics with antiprotons.
Read article 'Extreme cryogenics keeps LHC cool'
When it comes into operation in 2005, CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which will use thousands of superconducting magnets operating at superfluid helium temperatures, will also be the largest cryogeni...
Read article 'First test beams are delivered for the LHC'
The experiments being prepared for CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) received their first beams in May and preliminary results are expected soon.
Read article 'The future looks bright'
A new class of extremely large telescope is on the drawing board. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is funding a feasibility study for a ground-based, fully steerable, 100 m optical telescope ch...
Read article 'Pulsars are looking their age'
New pulsar observations could lead to a drastic reappraisal of pulsar ages and evolution. Pulsars, which “blink” regularly like powerful cosmic lighthouses in the depths of galaxies, are u...
Read article 'XMM-Newton measures the hot universe'
A new generation of X-ray observatories is under way to study the hottest parts of the observable universe. Among them the European Space Agency's X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM - now named XMM-New...
Read article 'Mapping quark confinement by exotic particles'
According to our increasing understanding of quark physics, more kinds of particle should exist than are currently known. New experiments at the Jefferson Laboratory are setting out to search for th...
