CERN's Graeme Stewart tours six decades of computing milestones in high-energy physics and describes the immense challenges ahead in taming data from future experiments.
Malcom Longair has written a monumental account of the Cavendish Laboratory.
The decay of the K-short to two muons is sensitive to contributions from yet-to-be discovered particles that are too heavy to be observed directly.
The CMS collaboration recently used a dedicated set of high-rate “scouting” triggers to extend their search for dark photons to lower energies.
The chairs of APPEC, NuPECC and ECFA call for novel expressions of interest to tackle common challenges.
Carlo Rovelli reports on a conference which brought together two communities that have evolved independently for many years.
The world’s largest optical/near-infrared telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope, under construction in Chile, will bring mysteries such as dark energy into focus.
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TeV photons from distant gamma-ray burst provide evidence for synchrotron self-Compton process.
117 authors collaborated to write on diverse aspects of the ATLAS project.
Michele Livan and Richard Wigmans have written an up-to-date introduction to both the fundamental physics and the technical parameters.
More than 13,000 European scientists have objected to changes in the representation of education and research in the European Commission.
Karen Olsson's book tours the lives of Simone Weil and her brother, the noted mathematician André Weil
In the 1980s Otten used tritium decays to rebut a 30 eV measurement of the mass of the antineutrino, and initiated the KATRIN experiment.
A cross-party committee of the legislature of the Republic of Ireland last week unanimously recommended joining CERN.
Working at CERN’s Antiproton Decelerator, the international BASE team has set the first laboratory limits on the interaction between antimatter and dark-matter axions
Accelerator physicists in the US have proposed an alternative approach to the design of the proposed Future Circular electron-positron Collider using energy-recovery linacs.
In 1997, Juan Maldacena conjectured a deep relationship between gravity and quantum field theory.
Steinar Stapnes considers the past, present and future of CERN’s proposed Compact Linear Collider.
Tim Radford's new book is a celebration of the best in humanity, built around the successes of CERN, LIGO and most of all the Voyager mission, says James Gillies.
