Read article 'L’enigma dei raggi cosmici. Le più grandi energie dell’ universo'
Roberto Battiston reviews in 2012 (in English) L’enigma dei raggi cosmici. Le più grandi energie dell’ universo.
Read article 'The Universe: A Challenge to the Mind'
In this book, Jacques Vanier gives a comprehensive picture of the physical laws that appear to regulate the functioning of the universe, from the atomic to the cosmic world.
Read article 'Edoardo Amaldi ATV launches into space'
A leading figure of 20th-century experimental physics, Edoardo Amaldi was one of the main players in the process that turned the dreams of large, transnational scientific projects among European count...
Read article 'Gamma-ray observations constrain dark matter'
Dark matter remains dark. The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope could not detect an annihilation signal from dark-matter reservoirs in nearby dwarf galaxies. This nonetheless constrains the properties o...
Read article 'Planck reveals details across the Milky Way'
While awaiting the Planck mission results on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the scientific community must be content with measurements on foreground sources. Those are nevertheless providing i...
Read article 'Introduction to Black Hole Physics'
This text combines physical, mathematical and astrophysical aspects of black-hole theory.
Read article 'Cosmic Rays for Particle and Astroparticle Physics: Proceedings of the 12th ICATPP Conference'
The conference was devoted to physics and the physics requirements; a survey of theoretical models and performances of detectors; astroparticle physics; astrophysics research; and the space environmen...
Read article 'Physics Beyond the Standard Models of Particles, Cosmology and Astrophysics'
This book contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Physics Beyond the Standard Models of Particle Physics, Cosmology and Astrophysics.
Read article 'Experiment recreates ‘seeds’ of the universe’s magnetic fields'
How did magnetic fields arise in the universe? An experiment using a high-power laser to create plasma instabilities may have glimpsed the processes that created magnetic fields during the period of g...
Read article 'Einstein ring reveals dwarf dark-matter galaxy'
If a remote galaxy is located exactly behind another galaxy then it can be seen deformed by gravitational lensing as an “Einstein ring”. The careful analysis of such an effect has recently...
