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
