Read article: Physicist mooted as new US science advisor
Physicist mooted as new US science advisor
Bush nominates the current director of the Brookhaven National Lab
Read article: Physicist mooted as new US science advisor
Particle beams that bend like light
A delicate layer of gas can deflect an electron beam that is strong enough to pierce steel
Shedding new light on an old effect
Now Troy Stevens and co-workers at the University of Michigan in the US and the Max Planck Institute of Solid State Physics in Stuttgart, Germany, have shown that Cerenkov radiation can also be emitte...
Single charge raises the current standard
The ability to control a single positive charge could improve our definition of the amp
Read article: Linear collider race gets serious
Linear collider race gets serious
Competition hots up for the world's next major accelerator
Read article: Neutrino messages from across the Universe
Neutrino messages from across the Universe
A 'neutrino telescope' should give us the clearest picture yet of events in deep space
B factories go into overdrive
Experiments on B mesons yield puzzling early results
Read article: Muon result could jeopardise Standard Model
Muon result could jeopardise Standard Model
New experiments on the muon cast doubt on a long-held theory
Photonics and particles win 2001 King Faisal prize
Optical communications and cosmology are recognised by the prize
Louis Néel and Lochlainn O’Raifeartaigh
Louis Néel was born in Lyons in 1904 and dedicated his career to the study of magnetism. In 1932 he discovered antiferromagnetism – a form of magnetism in which the ‘spins’ on n...
