15 September

China’s Institute for High Energy Physics is one of the world’s leading particle-physics labs and has just completed the first part of a major neutrino facility at Daya Bay in the south of the country. [read page 8]

But it was not until 2005 that the KamLAND collaboration reported the first detection of geoneutrinos. Now, with five times as much data in hand, the international collaboration has reported its first substantive geophysics result.

In a new collaboration, the two activities are about to meet head on with the internationally renowned composer Edward Cowie teaming up with particle physicist Brian Foster and the violinist Jack Liebeck.

Tevatron’s data may have more to say, even after the atom smasher shuts down