Despite the difficult tasks facing us, Advanced Virgo is showing progress as witnessed by the end of civil engineering works and the delivery of many components to the site. The External Injection Bench and its new seismic isolating support have been installed in the...

This 24th issue of h is a very tough one, requiring an effort by our readers to digest the articles on Casimir effect and on tachyons and quantum entanglement. Both deal with phenomena which contradict the two cornerstone theories of modern physics, Quantum Mechanics...

As an Editorial on this issue of our newsletter, I have the pleasure in publishing a congratulation letter that I received as corresponding author of "the Virgo Paper" from an engineer of the Thorlabs company. This is for all of us! C.Bradaschia Chief EditorContact...

While reading the following two articles on wind turbines in the April issue of Europhysics News: C. le Pair, F. Udo and K. de Groot: Wind turbines as yet unsuitable as electricity providers. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epn/2012204 and P.J. Eecen, H.A. Bijleveld and B....

About one year after h19, another editorial brings our thoughts back to the beautiful times we had with Stefano Braccini. This time the sadness for missing Stefano is mitigated by the announcement of the winner of the "Stefano Braccini Thesis Prize", that has been...

On the 31st October the world population officially exceeded 7 billion people. This impressive number stimulated some lazy meditation in my mind. This meditation was supported by the existence of several web sites which can calculate the world population at any given...

We take the opportunity afforded by this editorial to welcome the new elected Spokesperson of the Virgo Collaboration: good luck, Jean Yves! Even if he has been with Virgo since the beginning - and before many of us - we will ask him to write an article about himself...

Writing this editorial, my feelings are dominated by the sadness generated by the loss of Stefano Braccini. Our memories of this great person are recalled in the article by Francesco Fidecaro, reproducing what he said in the commemoration ceremony held in the EGO...

The old year is over and a new one has just started, but our life is never flat: we have news, good and worrying, we exclude the adjective "bad". We have a new EGO director. Federico Ferrini has been with us for a few weeks, and we already feel very easy with him, as...