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Nobel prizewinner in 1984, architect and mason of CERN's biggest ever physics discovery and director-general of CERN from 1989 to 1993, Carlo Rubbia remains a continual fountainhead of new ideas. A ...
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Nobel prizewinner in 1984, architect and mason of CERN's biggest ever physics discovery and director-general of CERN from 1989 to 1993, Carlo Rubbia remains a continual fountainhead of new ideas. A ...
A major report by a working group of the influential OECD Megascience forum provides a valuable snapshot of nuclear physics and makes far-reaching recommendations for its future direction.
Now playing to full houses in London's theatreland is Copenhagen, a fascinating new play that imagines a dialogue between the ghosts of quantum pioneers Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg.
Communicating the unfamiliar ideas of basic physics is already a challenge. With theories for the 21st century already on the drawing board and looking even more bizarre, CERN Courier editor Gordon F...
Unveiling the nature of dark matter matter revealing itself only via its gravitational interaction is a continuous challenge in contemporary cosmology. The job of particle physics experiments i...
Finding a quantum field theory that includes gravity has eluded the best minds of physics. Yaron Oz of CERN explains how the theory of superstrings modifies classical geometry, and how the secrets of...
While CERN's LHC proton collider is the world's major particle physics project, other avenues of research could yield complementary studies. Here, David Miller looks at the possibilities for a linea...
The Japanese Kamiokande underground detector played a leading role in the study of neutrinos produced via cosmic rays and also helped to pioneer the subject of neutrino astronomy. With Kamiokande now ...
The RD39 collaboration at CERN investigates heavily irradiated silicon detectors operated at cryogenic temperatures. Its results show that, below 100 K, such detectors can be brought back to life. T...
The Rose collaboration (RD48: R&D on silicon for future experiments) at CERN has tackled the same problem as RD39,
from a different angle but with similar success. Its approach is "defect engineering...