Sudbury Neutrino Observatory opens
Neutrinos travel at the speed of light and only interact very weakly with matter, which makes them very difficult to detect. This is why neutrino detectors need to be large and built underground ̵...
US Energy Secretary resigns
During his term in office Peña has promoted management reforms across the department and increased transparency at the national labs. Peña’s involvement in promoting awareness of the g...
CERN head to move to UCL
During his five-year tenure at CERN, Llewellyn Smith has overseen an increase in funds for the Large Hadron Collider by persuading countries outside CERN, particularly the US, to become involved in th...
France opens new research facility – and closes two
France's newest nuclear physics facility - the SPIRAL facility for radioactive nuclear beams in Caen - has accelerated its first beams
Sensenbrenner criticises Shuttle-Mir missions
The chairman of the US House Science Committee, James Sensenbrenner, has criticised the Shuttle-Mir space missions as "an especially bad example of an international agreement"
CERN hustings
Four physicists are vying to become the next director general of CERN, the European particle physics laboratory
Fractional charge carriers discovered
Electric charge normally comes in an indivisible unit: the charge of an electron. Indeed, quarks were thought to be the only particles with fractional charge – and today they only exist in parti...
Heavy ions split US and Europe
More than 1000 nuclear physicists are striving to avoid a split in the community over the next generation of heavy-ion experiments
Particle factory opens in Italy
The first of a new generation of meson factories was officially inaugurated in Italy at the end of September
Read article: 100 years of the electron: from discovery to application
100 years of the electron: from discovery to application
Joseph John Thomson – universally known as J J – discovered the electron 100 years ago this month
