Read article 'Inside story: the search in CMS for the Higgs boson'
The search for the Standard Model Higgs boson, the missing keystone of the current framework for describing elementary particles and forces, has been going on for some 40 years.
Read article 'Particle-physics fever in Melbourne'
A wave of optimism at ICHEP2012.
Read article 'A discovery of cosmic proportions'
What Victor Hess found out when he took to the skies in 1912.
Read article 'Domenico Pacini and the origin of cosmic rays'
A forgotten pioneer of the early days of cosmic-ray research.
Read article 'LHCf: bringing cosmic collisions down to Earth'
Data from the LHC are providing input for models used to measure the highest-energy cosmic rays.
Read article 'Studies of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays look to the future'
A symposium at CERN discussed the challenges in detecting extreme events.
Read article 'ALICE looks to the skies'
ALICE is one of the four big experiments at CERN’s LHC. It is devoted mainly to the study of a new phase of matter, the quark–gluon plasma, which is created in heavy-ion collisions at very ...
Read article 'Cherenkov Telescope Array is set to open new windows'
A new facility to push forward very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy.
Read article 'A neutrino telescope deep in the Mediterranean Sea'
KM3NeT will instrument several cubic kilometres of deep water.
Read article 'The discovery of air-Cherenkov radiation'
How a simple but audacious experiment opened up a new technique.
