In world first, European physicists snap elusive neutrino particles
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European physicists said Tuesday they had sent an elusive particle known as a neutrino on a 730-kilometer (456-mile) trip under the Earth's crust and taken a snapshot of the instant it slammed into lab detectors.
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Scientists have obtained their best measurement yet of the size and contents of a neutron star, an ultra-dense object containing the strangest and rarest matter in the Universe.
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Europe launches a project to build a super-brilliant X-ray laser to probe the atomic structure of materials.
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Germany launches the World Year of Physics, a century after Albert Einstein made his first great discovery.
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Only 12 years old, the field of ultracold physics is already leading scientists to discoveries that seemed like science fiction just a decade ago. Think quantum supercomputers and modeling the big bang.
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The race is on to get Europe's giant new particle accelerator facility ready for a 2007 deadline.
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A theory of how the universe expanded and a tool used to expand global communication networks are being touted as breakthroughs worthy of this year's Nobel Prize in physics.
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Summary - (Nov 4, 2004) European astronomers have produced the first image of an object using high energy gamma rays - the most penetrating form of radiation known.
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The world's leading center for research into the origins of matter on Wednesday took a giant step toward the launch of a 15-year experiment which scientists hope will unlock many secrets of the universe.
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An international team of astronomers has produced the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays, helping to solve a 100 year old mystery - an origin of cosmic rays.
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Americans John C. Mather and George F. Smoot won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics yesterday for producing the first tangible evidence that the universe began billions of years ago with the long-theorized big bang.
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neutron_p writes &quot;An international team of astronomers has produced the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays, helping to solve a 100 year old mystery - an origin of cosmic rays.
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Amsterdam has the world's busiest Internet exchange, thanks to nuclear physicists and mathematicians who in the 1980s connected their network needs with the academic belief that knowledge needs to be free.
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ESA's X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has revealed evidence for a magnetic field in space where astronomers never expected to find one.
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A team of astronomers from the US and the UK obtain some of the clearest pictures of space ever taken.
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Americans David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczeck won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their exploration of the force that binds particles inside the atomic nucleus.
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[World News]: Washington, Nov 4 : An international team of astronomers has suceeded solving the 100 yearl old mystery about the origin of the cosmic rays by producing the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays.