Read article 'Synchrotrons on the coronavirus frontline'
Researchers at Diamond Light Source and other synchrotron facilities are using intense X-rays to decipher the biochemical and structural makeup of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Read article 'Scoping out the Einstein Telescope'
Activities are gathering pace at two sites in Europe where the Einstein Telescope, a proposed next-generation gravitational-wave observatory, may be built.
Read article 'LHC at 10: the physics legacy'
The LHC’s physics programme has transformed our understanding of elementary particles, writes Michelangelo Mangano.
Read article 'A labour of love'
Ten years on from the LHC's first high-energy collisions, Mark Rayner interviews some of the foremost detector experts on what it took to keep the experiments fighting fit.
Read article 'Bang, beam, bump, boson'
Bringing the LHC to life and steering it beyond its design performance has been a rollercoaster journey for those at the helm, describes Mike Lamont.
Read article 'Engaging with the invisible'
The outreach project Tactile Collider is changing the way particle physicists engage with visually impaired people, writes founder Rob Appleby.
Read article 'A voyage to the heart of the neutrino'
The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino experiment has begun its seven-year-long programme to determine the absolute value of the neutrino mass.
Read article 'Who ordered all of that?'
Explaining the bizarre pattern of fermion types and masses has led theorists to suggest that the “flavour scale” could be at a much lower energy than previously thought.
Read article 'Particle physics inspires all'
Some 75,000 members of the public took part in the CERN Open Days on 14 and 15 September.
Read article 'Adapting to exascale computing'
CERN's Graeme Stewart tours six decades of computing milestones in high-energy physics and describes the immense challenges ahead in taming data from future experiments.
