Read article 'Fiction, in theory'
Fiction, in theory
French actor Irène Jacob's novel is an intimate portrait of life as the daughter of a renowned theoretical physicist, writes James Gillies.
Read article 'Fiction, in theory'
Read article 'Cosmology and the quantum vacuum'
Cosmology and the quantum vacuum
The sixth conference in the series marked Spanish theorist Emilio Elizalde’s 70th birthday.
Read article 'LHC at 10: the physics legacy'
LHC at 10: the physics legacy
The LHC’s physics programme has transformed our understanding of elementary particles, writes Michelangelo Mangano.
Read article '50 years of the GIM mechanism'
50 years of the GIM mechanism
A symposium to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Glashow, Iliopoulos and Maiani's explanation of the suppression of strangeness-changing neutral currents was held in Shanghai.
Read article 'Space–time symmetries scrutinised in Indiana'
Space–time symmetries scrutinised in Indiana
The Standard-Model Extension provides a framework for testing CPT and Lorentz symmetries by including all operators that break them in an effective field theory.
Read article 'The Higgs, supersymmetry and all that'
The Higgs, supersymmetry and all that
John Ellis reflects on 50 years at the forefront of theoretical high-energy physics - and whether the field is ripe for a paradigm shift.
Read article 'Learning to love anomalies'
Learning to love anomalies
The 2020s will sort current anomalies in fundamental physics into discoveries or phantoms, says Ben Allanach.
Read article 'Who ordered all of that?'
Who ordered all of that?
Explaining the bizarre pattern of fermion types and masses has led theorists to suggest that the “flavour scale” could be at a much lower energy than previously thought.
Read article 'When twistors met loops'
When twistors met loops
Carlo Rovelli reports on a conference which brought together two communities that have evolved independently for many years.
Read article 'Gauge–gravity duality opens new horizons'
Gauge–gravity duality opens new horizons
In 1997, Juan Maldacena conjectured a deep relationship between gravity and quantum field theory.