Read article 'Nobel work shines a light on particle physics'
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was shared between three researchers for groundbreaking inventions in laser physics. Half the prize went to Arthur Ashkin of Bell Laboratories in the US for his wo...
Read article 'Satellite premieres in CERN irradiation facility'
CHARM, a unique facility at CERN to test electronics in complex radiation environments, has been used to test its first full space system: a micro-satellite called CELESTA, developed by CERN in collab...
Read article 'Beam tests bring ProtoDUNE to life'
The world’s largest liquid-argon neutrino detector has recorded its first particle tracks in tests at CERN.
Read article 'J-PET’s plastic revolution'
A PET detector based on plastic scintillators offers whole-body imaging in addition to precision tests of fundamental symmetries.
Read article 'Europe calls for advanced detector and imaging ideas'
The European Union (EU) has committed €17 million to help bring a total of 170 breakthrough detection and imaging ideas to market. Led by CERN and funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, the A...
Read article 'Thin silicon sharpens STAR imaging'
A new technology has enabled the STAR collaboration at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) to greatly expand its ability to reconstruct short-lived charm hadron d...
Read article 'Defeating the background in the search for dark matter'
A global effort is under way to carry out a complete search for high-mass dark-matter particles using an experiment called DarkSide-20k.
Read article 'First human 3D X-ray in colour'
New-Zealand company MARS Bioimaging Ltd has used technology developed at CERN to perform the first colour 3D X-ray of a human body, offering more accurate medical diagnoses.
Read article 'Higgs centre opens for business'
A new facility called the Higgs Centre for Innovation opened at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh on 25 May as part of the UK government’s efforts to boost productivity and innovation. The centre,...
Read article 'ISOLDE mints chromium for structure studies'
CERN’s radioactive ion-beam facility ISOLDE has stamped a new coin in its impressive collection. Long considered the domain of high-energy, in-flight rare-isotope facilities, chromium has now been p...
