Read article 'The FCC, half a century on'
The FCC, half a century on
The European Strategy has recommended the FCC-ee as CERN’s next flagship collider. The case for it, Alain Blondel argues, rests on 50 years of inventions and discoveries.
Read article 'The FCC, half a century on'
Read article 'Final collisions for the RHIC'
Final collisions for the RHIC
On 6 February 2026, beams of oxygen ions circulated through the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory for the last time.
Read article 'Scaling new heights towards Long Shutdown 3'
Scaling new heights towards Long Shutdown 3
The 28th Chamonix Workshop took place from 2 to 5 February 2026, with around 130 participants from CERN and several international guests.
Read article 'Garching gathers for the FCC'
Garching gathers for the FCC
From 26 to 30 January 2026, the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Garching hosted the 9th FCC Physics Workshop, a major gathering of theorists and experimentalists working on the proposed Future Cir...
Read article 'Accelerators feel the chill'
Accelerators feel the chill
Stochastic Cooling of Particle Beams, by Dieter Möhl, is a remarkably thorough treatment of a technique that remains central to hadron-beam physics decades after its invention at CERN.
Read article 'Superconductors for the energy frontier'
Superconductors for the energy frontier
Ezio Todesco charts the future of high-field dipole magnets – a technology set to advance the boundaries of high-energy physics and the societal applications of superconductivity.
Read article 'Execution mode'
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.
Read article 'New directions for bent crystals'
New directions for bent crystals
Long-established in accelerator physics, bent crystals are now being explored as tools to measure the fundamental properties of short-lived charm baryons.
Read article 'HiLumi magnets face full-scale test'
HiLumi magnets face full-scale test
CERN has reached a milestone in the advancement of the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider.
Read article 'When accelerators turn into sweaters'
When accelerators turn into sweaters
Edited by Mónica Bello, In the Spaces Between is a sustained reflection on the long-running Arts at CERN programme.
