EU releases research report
The report also highlights the fact that 27% of the members of the panels that advise the EU on research are women. It does not, however, mention last year’s report on mismanagement and fraud in...
Synchrotron up for grabs
“The meeting was extraordinarily successful in helping to bring people together,” says Siegbert Rather, director for physical sciences at the United Nations Educa-tional, Scientific and Cu...
CERN confirms direct CP violation
Charge-parity (CP) symmetry implies that particles and antiparticles behave like mirror images of each other. Charge conjugation changes particles into their antiparticles – e.g., electrons beco...
Neutrino prediction proved wrong
Researchers have been worried about the discrepancy between the experimental data and simulations at Super-Kamiokande for some time. According to the simulations, the experiment was detecting too few ...
Bubble breakthrough for magnets
Fukumura and colleagues used a scanning Hall probe microscope to study the formation of the bubbles. The compound that they studied is unusual in that its magnetic structure changes markedly with temp...
Read article: Gemini telescope passes first hurdle
Gemini telescope passes first hurdle
Gemini-North is situated on top of Mauna Kea, an extinct volcano some 4200 meters above sea level. Mauna Kea is a popular location for telescopes because of its high altitude and clear skies. The 8-me...
AMS hints at cosmic-ray mystery
The experiment also found that changes in the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field with latitude do not alter the number of low-energy protons hitting the Earth’s atmosphere. However the...
Defects work for laser
The photonic crystal was made by using an ion beam to drill a 2D hexagonal array of holes in a layer of indium gallium arsenide phosphide (InGaAsP). The regular spacing of the holes means that only ce...
Has man caused climate change?
The Earth’s average global temperature has increased by 0.6 Kelvin in the past 100 years. There are believed to be four main processes that can effect the Earth’s climate. Two of these, sm...
Read article: Neutrino lab sees “first light”
Neutrino lab sees “first light”
The observatory is a joint project between Canada, the US and the UK, and was officially opened last year. It is the first detector that is capable of distinguishing between the three different types ...
