Read article 'First light for supersymmetry'
Ideas from supersymmetry have been used to address a longstanding challenge in optics – how to suppress unwanted spatial modes that limit the beam quality of high-power lasers.
Read article 'Understanding naturalness'
The last few years have seen an explosion of ideas concerning naturalness, but we’re only at the beginning of our understanding, says theorist Nathaniel Craig.
Read article 'Fixing gender in theory'
It is high time we addressed the low representation of women in high-energy theoretical physics, says Marika Taylor.
Read article 'The roots and fruits of string theory'
"People say that string theory doesn’t make predictions, but that’s simply not true."
Read article 'Loops and legs in quantum field theory'
The conference brought together more than 100 researchers from 18 countries to discuss the latest results in precision calculations for particle physics at colliders.
Read article 'Putting the Pauli exclusion principle on trial'
If detected, even the tiniest violation of the exclusion principle would revolutionise physics.
Read article 'Particle physics meets quantum optics'
The sixth International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP) took place on 17–29 August in Kolymbari, Crete.
Read article 'Doubting darkness'
An interview with Erik Verlinde, who argues that dark matter is an illusion caused by an incomplete understanding of gravity.
Read article 'General relativity at 100'
Testing Einstein’s masterpiece with ever increasing precision.
Read article '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...
