Read article 'The most important tool you’ve never heard of'
Read article 'The most important tool you’ve never heard of'
Read article 'The mystery of the little red dots'
Every new instrument needs its mysteries, and no discovery of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been more surprising than the “little red dots” it discovered in the early universe.
Read article 'Execution mode'
Norbert Holtkamp returns to Fermilab with a clear mandate: deliver DUNE, honour the laboratory’s legacy of bold leadership and reaffirm big science’s responsibility to society.
The list spans nearly 250 years and multiple disciplinary domains.
Long-established in accelerator physics, bent crystals are now being explored as tools to measure the fundamental properties of short-lived charm baryons.
Artificial intelligence has uncovered more than a thousand astrophysical anomalies in the Hubble Legacy Archive.
James Robinson reflects on a journey from the ATLAS collaboration to the Environment and Sustainability programme at the Alan Turing Institute.
Michael S Turner argues that the next breakthrough in particle physics and cosmology may be just around the corner.
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Read about 'In focus: enabling technologies'
The platform technologies that underpin Europe’s large-scale research facilities
Read article 'Antonino Zichichi 1929–2026'
Antonino Zichichi, one of the most influential figures in high-energy physics and a towering presence in Italian scientific culture, passed away in Rome on 9 February 2026, at the...
Read article 'Physics labs under the lens'
16 laboratories across Asia, Europe and North America opened their doors for the 2025 Global Physics Photowalk.
Read article 'The most elusive higgsinos'
Supersymmetry has so far eluded discovery at the LHC, yet it retains strong theoretical appeal as an extension of the Standard Model, and potential hiding places remain.
Read article 'Suppression grows with system size'
The CMS collaboration compared high-transverse-momentum particle yields in oxygen–oxygen, neon–neon, xenon–xenon and lead–lead collisions.
Read article 'Quarkonium experts regroup at CERN'
The 17th Quarkonium Working Group brought together more than 200 researchers at CERN from 17 to 21 November.
Read article 'Photon detectors light up Bologna'
The 7th international workshop on new Photon-Detectors took place from 3 to 5 December 2025 at Bologna’s Palazzo d’Accursio.
Read article 'The top turns thirty'
The 18th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics brought the top-quark community to Seoul, South Korea, from 21 to 26 September 2025.
Read article 'Charm and beauty alike in fragmentation'
By tracking how much of a jet’s momentum each hadron carries, the LHCb collaboration has now compared how charm, beauty and light quarks hadronise.
Read article 'The flavour dependence of jet structures'
In a recent analysis, the ALICE collaboration compared the yields of charged particles associated with electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays with those of the light hadrons.
Read article 'Erich Lohrmann 1931–2026'
Erich Lohrmann, an experimental physicist who shaped the research programme at DESY, passed away on 10 January 2026 at the age of 94.
Read article 'Matts Roos 1931–2025'
Matts Roos, who promoted the international standardisation of high-energy-physics data and developed the popular statistical minimisation system, passed away on 25 November 2025 in...
Read article 'Seven colliders for CERN'
The European Strategy Group tasked a working group to compare seven proposals for CERN’s next large-scale collider.
