Defeating the background in the search for dark matter
A global effort is under way to carry out a complete search for high-mass dark-matter particles using an experiment called DarkSide-20k.
The day the world switched on to particle physics
What was it that drove one of the biggest media events science has ever seen, and is the LHC still able to capture the public imagination?
Elephants in the gamma-ray sky
The discovery of large-scale features in the gamma-ray sky in approximately the same direction continues to puzzle researchers.
Procurement at the forefront of technology
The LHC would not exsist without good organization, innovative procurement and careful oversight
LHC upgrade brings benefits beyond physics
The high-luminosity LHC promises a quantifiable return to society in terms of scientific, economic and cultural value.
Search for WISPs gains momentum
Interest is growing in new experiments that probe dark-matter candidates such as axions and other very weakly interacting sub-eV particles.
Muons cooled for action
The MICE collaboration has demonstrated muon ionisation-cooling, paving the way for a muon collider
Learning machine learning
The Yandex machine-learning school for high-energy physics trains young researchers in the art of deep learning
Creativity across cultures
Data from the ATLAS experiment is a key element in HALO, an important new commission undertaken for Art Basel, the world’s premier fair for contemporary art.
The rise of deep learning
Deep learning is bringing new levels of performance to the analysis of high-energy physics data
