Read article 'Particle physics meets quantum optics'
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 'Particle physics meets quantum optics'
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 '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 '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 '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 'Interactions with André Petermann'
Interactions with André Petermann
Antonino Zichichi remembers a major CERN theorist.
Read article 'Saul Perlmutter: from light into darkness'
Saul Perlmutter: from light into darkness
The Nobel laureate on the discovery behind dark energy.
