Read article 'Doubting darkness'
Doubting darkness
An interview with Erik Verlinde, who argues that dark matter is an illusion caused by an incomplete understanding of gravity.
Read article 'Doubting darkness'
Read article 'General relativity at 100'
General relativity at 100
Testing Einstein’s masterpiece with ever increasing precision.
Read article 'Gravity’s quantum side'
Gravity’s quantum side
There is little doubt that, in spite of their overwhelming success in describing phenomena over a vast range of distances, general relativity (GR) and the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics are i...
Read article 'The many lives of supergravity'
The many lives of supergravity
The early 1970s was a pivotal period in the history of particle physics. Following the discovery of asymptotic freedom and the Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism a few years earlier, it was the time wh...
Read article 'Testing times for space–time symmetry'
Testing times for space–time symmetry
Numerous experiments, many of them at CERN, are testing for violations of Lorentz and CPT symmetry in the search for new physics.
Read article 'Yoichiro Nambu: breaking the symmetry'
Yoichiro Nambu: breaking the symmetry
Yoichiro Nambu passed away on 5 July 2015 in Osaka. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic phys...
Read article 'ICTP: theorists in the developing world'
ICTP: theorists in the developing world
As ICTP reaches its first half-century, the current director talks about the contribution that theorists make to society.
Read article 'From BCS to the LHC'
From BCS to the LHC
Steven Weinberg reflects on spontaneous symmetry breaking - an idea particle physicists learnt from Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer's theory of superconductivity.
Read article 'DESY workshop combines gravity and particle physics'
DESY workshop combines gravity and particle physics
Gravity and particle physics took centre stage at last year's DESY theory workshop. As chairman of the organizing committee Dieter Lüst reports, there was plenty to talk about.
Read article 'Why does CP violation matter to the universe?'
Why does CP violation matter to the universe?
John Ellis explains how far and how deep the implications of CP violation extend.
