Murray Gell-Mann was one of the great geniuses of the 20th century, says Lars Brink, and stands out among other Nobel laureates.
The Large Electron Positron collider (LEP) changed particle physics, and CERN, forever. Former Director-General Herwig Schopper describes what it took to make LEP happen.
New sources of CP violation (CPV) are needed to explain the absence of antimatter in our matter-dominated universe. The LHCb collaboration has reported new results describing CPV in B+ → π+K+K– and B+ → π+π+π– decays. Until very recently, […]
Reports from events, conferences and meetings
The open symposium of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP), which took place in Granada, Spain, from 13–16 May, revealed a vibrant field in flux as it grapples with how to attack the next […]
On 20 May, 144 years after the signing of the Metre Convention in 1875, the kilogram was given a new definition based on Planck’s constant, h. Long tied to the International Prototype of the Kilogram […]