Read article 'Symposium aims to uncover dark secrets'
The 5th Symposium of Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe, held in February at Marina del Rey, California, focused on the current state of detection and theoretical stu...
Read article 'Symposium links physics disciplines'
Europe's three principal physics research organizations, CERN, ESA and ESO, held a joint symposium in Munich in March. Maurice Jacob gives a glimpse of what proved to be a busy first encounter.
Read article 'Arctic Circle maintains the freshness of ancient physics'
A recent meeting underlined the continual freshness of studying the ancient history of the universe.
Read article 'Solar telescope CASTs the net for solar axions'
The CERN Solar Axion Telescope, CAST, aims to shed light on a 30-year-old riddle of particle physics by detecting axions originating from the 15 million degree plasma in the Sun's core.
Read article 'CAPP off at music and physics festival'
Music and physics combined during the CAPP 2000.
Read article 'Watch this space for cosmophysics'
Space, the ultimate scientific frontier, is being opened up by a new generation of satellite-borne precision experiments, many of which use technology perfected in generations of particle physics s...
Read article 'Not enough stellar mass objects to fill the galactic halo?'
The universe contains a lot more than meets the eye. Sophisticated experiments search diligently for this invisible dark matter. Here Alain Milsztajn of Saclay describes the latest results to emerg...
Read article 'Searching for signals from the dark universe'
At the Italian Gran Sasso National Laboratory, a novel experiment that is in search of signs of the invisible dark matter that pervades our universe reports an intriguing result.
Read article 'Don’t be afraid of the dark'
Unveiling the nature of dark matter matter revealing itself only via its gravitational interaction is a continuous challenge in contemporary cosmology. The job of particle physics experiments i...
Read article 'Cosmology comes of age'
The easy part is over experimental cosmology has now reached adulthood. That was the message that emerged from a workshop on cosmology and particle physics held at CERN this summer.
