Read article 'JINR-Russia agreement is ratified'
Under a new ruling, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, near Moscow, has the same legal status of an international organization in Russia as CERN enjoys in its host countries.
Read article 'Taking a new close look at the proton’s weak magnetism'
Ever since Otto Stern surprised his colleagues in 1933 by announcing that the proton's magnetic moment was some three times as large as expected, physicists have puzzled over the origin of this effect...
Read article 'XMM Newton reveals first images'
The first images have been captured using the new X-ray Multi-Mirror (XMM) space telescope, now called the Newton observatory. The telescope was successfully launched last December (CERN CourierJanuar...
Read article 'Workshop stresses potential of space technology'
April sees a joint workshop on fundamental physics in space held at CERN and organized jointly by CERN and the European Space Agency (ESA).
Read article 'Discovering new dimensions at LHC'
In an entirely new energy range and with its special experimental conditions, the LHC could also discover other new physics effects.
Read article 'Pollution threatens observations'
Two months from now the International Telecommunications Union will hold its World Radio Conference in Turkey. Radio astronomers are hoping for new regulations to curb emission from satellites that ar...
Read article 'Boomerang results suggest ‘flat’ universe'
New results from a test flight of the Boomerang balloon experiment imply that there is just enough matter to stop the expansion of the universe, but not to reverse it.
Read article 'Korea and CERN make plans for future scientific collaborations'
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed recently in Seoul between a CERN delegation comprising the director of research Roger Cashmore, the advisor on non-member states John Ellis, the CMS resourc...
Read article 'First major CMS production is over'
The first major contract for the CMS experiment at CERN's LHC was completed last month when the last of 120 forged iron blocks rolled off the production line at the Izhora factory, St Petersburg.
Read article 'CLAS at Jefferson offers a new subnuclear view'
In Experimental Hall B at the Jefferson Laboratory, Newport News, Virginia, the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer has opened a new "window" on the building blocks of matter: mesons, nuclei and n...
