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Cosmic-ray muons can non-destructively map precious or impenetrable objects

Inside pyramids, underneath glaciers

Coordinated by editors Paola Scampoli and Akitaka Ariga, Cosmic Ray Muography provides an invaluable snapshot of a booming research area.

Dignitaries mark CERN’s 70th anniversary

On 1 October a high-level ceremony at CERN marked 70 years of science, innovation and collaboration.

The new particles

Fifty years ago, the discovery of the J/ψ and its excitations sparked the November Revolution in particle physics, giving fresh experimental impetus to the theoretical ideas that would become the Sta...

Exploding misconceptions

Cosmologist Katie Mack talks to the Courier about how high-energy physics can succeed in #scicomm by throwing open the doors to academia.

The first experiment at CERN to use a superconducting magnet, in 1965

Back to the future

A photographic journey linking CERN’s early years to ongoing research.

Wonderstruck wanderings

The wonder and awe that we sense when we look at the starry skies is a major motivation to do science. Both Plato (Theaetetus 155d) and Aristotle (Metaphysics 982b12) wrote that philosophy starts in w...

Advances in cosmology

The papers assembled in this volume range in subject matter from dark-matter searches and gravitational waves to artistic and philosophical considerations.