Read article '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'
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 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'
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'
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'
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?'
John Ellis explains how far and how deep the implications of CP violation extend.
Read article 'In hot pursuit of CP violation'
Gerry Bauer explains the background to CP violation and points out how a range of new experiments to explore the phenomenon in a new setting should see much larger effects.
