Read article 'Particle physicists propose stripped-down ventilator to help combat COVID-19'
Read article 'Particle physicists propose stripped-down ventilator to help combat COVID-19'
Read article 'A unique exercise in scientific diplomacy'
Michel Claessens’ new book ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor unfolds 40 years of the history of nuclear fusion, says Lucio Rossi.
Read article 'European strategy update postponed'
The CERN Council has agreed to put the release of the strategy update on hold due to the current COVID-19 situation.
CERN technologies and expertise are helping in the collective global fight against COVID-19.
French actor Irène Jacob's novel is an intimate portrait of life as the daughter of a renowned theoretical physicist, writes James Gillies.
Particle physicists brought cosmic-ray science to the heart of the Château-d’Oex International Balloon Festival.
The LHC’s physics programme has transformed our understanding of elementary particles, writes Michelangelo Mangano.
Renowned accelerator physicist Gregory Loew has written an insightful book of truly ambitious scope, writes our reviewer.
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Read article 'Yerevan hosts early-career accelerator internship'
The goal of the German-Armenian programme is to integrate accelerator physics into undergraduate courses and provide an early experience of international cooperation.
Read article 'Rolf Widerøe: a giant in the history of accelerators'
Aashild Sørheim's book presents new documentary evidence on the wartime life of an engineer who had a seminal impact on accelerator physics, writes Kurt Hübner.
Read article 'HL-LHC superconducting quadrupole successfully tested'
Advanced niobium-tin accelerator magnets for the LHC upgrade developed at US labs and CERN are also carving a path towards future energy-frontier colliders.
Read article 'Plasma polarised by spin-orbit effect'
Though several mysteries remain, the ALICE collaboration has uncovered evidence that quark-gluon plasmas with extreme angular momenta become polarised.
Read article 'Einstein and Heisenberg: The Controversy over Quantum Physics'
Peter Jenni reviews Konrad Kleinknecht's new book on the interwoven stories of two giants of twentieth century physics.
Read article 'LHC and RHIC heavy ions dovetail in Wuhan'
Quark Matter 2019 heard about new probes of the quark-gluon plasma, including first observations of the exotic hadron X(3872) and top-antitop production.
Read article 'Success in scientific management'
Barry Barish speaks to the Courier about his role in turning LIGO into a Nobel Prize-winning machine.
Read article 'A pathfinder to discovery: David Mark Ritson 1924–2019'
He was the last of the leaders of the original seven physics groups formed at SLAC.
Read article 'Life with antiprotons and quarks: Vladislav Šimák 1934–2019'
Since the early 1960s his vision and organisational skills helped shape experimental particle physics in Czechoslovakia and Czechia.
Read article 'A recipe for sustainable particle physics'
It is a moral imperative for the community to look at ways to reduce its carbon footprint, writes Véronique Boisvert.
Read article 'Anomalies persist in flavour-changing B decays'
Updated measurements by LHCb of the angular distributions of a rare neutral B meson decay add fresh intrigue to the flavour puzzle.
Read article 'Cosmology and the quantum vacuum'
The sixth conference in the series marked Spanish theorist Emilio Elizalde’s 70th birthday.
