Read article 'The mystery of the little red dots'
Every new instrument needs its mysteries, and no discovery of the James Webb Space Telescope has been more surprising than the “little red dots” it discovered in the early universe.
Read article 'A thousand anomalies hiding in plain sight'
Artificial intelligence has uncovered more than a thousand astrophysical anomalies in the Hubble Legacy Archive.
Read article 'Eiffel honour for women physicists'
The list spans nearly 250 years and multiple disciplinary domains.
Read article 'Antonino Zichichi 1929–2026'
Antonino Zichichi, one of the most influential figures in high-energy physics and a towering presence in Italian scientific culture, passed away in Rome on 9 February 2026, at the age of 96.
Read article 'HiLumi magnets face full-scale test'
CERN has reached a milestone in the advancement of the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider.
Read article 'Physics labs under the lens'
16 laboratories across Asia, Europe and North America opened their doors for the 2025 Global Physics Photowalk.
Read article 'The most elusive higgsinos'
Supersymmetry has so far eluded discovery at the LHC, yet it retains strong theoretical appeal as an extension of the Standard Model, and potential hiding places remain.
Read article 'Suppression grows with system size'
The CMS collaboration compared high-transverse-momentum particle yields in oxygen–oxygen, neon–neon, xenon–xenon and lead–lead collisions.
Read article 'Charm and beauty alike in fragmentation'
By tracking how much of a jet’s momentum each hadron carries, the LHCb collaboration has now compared how charm, beauty and light quarks hadronise.
Read article 'The flavour dependence of jet structures'
In a recent analysis, the ALICE collaboration compared the yields of charged particles associated with electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays with those of the light hadrons.
