Read article 'CERN pulls Strings together'
CERN pulls Strings together
The annual “Strings” conference draws together a large number of active researchers in the field from all over the world.
Read article 'CERN pulls Strings together'
Read article 'Edoardo Amaldi: a true statesman of science'
Edoardo Amaldi: a true statesman of science
Edoardo Amaldi was a leading figure in Italian science in the 20th century, particularly in fundamental experimental physics.
Read article 'Rutherford’s Nobel Prize and the one he didn’t get'
Rutherford’s Nobel Prize and the one he didn’t get
“I have dealt with many different transformations with various periods of time, but the quickest that I have met was my own transformation in one moment from a physicist to a chemist.” Ernest Ruth...
Read article 'CERN inaugurates the LHC'
CERN inaugurates the LHC
The LHC inauguration ceremony officially marked the end of 24 years of conception, development, construction and assembly of the biggest and most sophisticated scientific tool in the world.
Read article 'Partons, QCD and strings'
Partons, QCD and strings
When David Gross first came to CERN in the late 1960s, student protests across Europe, the Vietnam War and the Apollo Program were among the topics dominating world news. In particle physics the jury ...
Read article 'Getting heavy on Capri'
Getting heavy on Capri
The Second Workshop on Theory, Phenomenology and Experiments in Heavy Flavour Physics took place on 16–18 June in Anacapri, Capri, Italy – the same location as the first meeting in the series in ...
Read article 'ALBA: a synchrotron light source for Spain'
ALBA: a synchrotron light source for Spain
Progress of a new, third-generation light source
Read article 'The Higgs and the LHC'
The Higgs and the LHC
Understanding the Higgs sector.
Read article 'LHC first beam: a day to remember'
LHC first beam: a day to remember
At a little before 10.30 a.m. on 10 September, two dots on a colour screen in the CERN Control Centre (CCC) marked the successful first complete turn of protons clockwise round the LHC. It was less t...
Read article 'Exclusive events give new window on LHC physics'
Exclusive events give new window on LHC physics
Groundbreaking work at the Tevatron
