Read article 'Developing medical linacs for challenging regions'
Physicists, oncologists and industry experts are defining the design of a novel linear accelerator that will make radiotherapy more readily available in lower-resourced countries.
Read article 'Testing WIMPs to the limit'
Dark matter is one of the greatest mysteries of our cosmos. More than 80 years after its postulation in modern form by the Swiss–American astronomer Fritz Zwicky, the existence of a new unseen form ...
Read article 'The dawn of a new era'
Gravitational waves open a profound new vista on nature.
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...
Read article 'The LHC’s extra dimension'
Searches at ATLAS and CMS constrain models of extra dimensions.
Read article 'Catching a gravitational wave'
The technology behind LIGO’s epochal discovery.
Read article 'Does antimatter fall up?'
Measuring the effect of gravity on antimatter is a long-standing story. Now we are in a position to test Einstein’s equivalence principle with antimatter by directly measuring the free fall of antia...
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 'Linking waves to particles'
Gravitational waves could also shed light on the microscopic world.
