Read article 'VLT sees evidence for first-generation stars'
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered a very bright galaxy in the early universe, and found strong evidence that it contains first-generation stars. These massive lu...
Read article 'The LHC prepares for high-energy collisions'
After restarting in April, CERN's flagship accelerator is progressing well.
Read article 'Turkey becomes associate member state of CERN'
On 6 May, the Republic of Turkey became an associate member state of CERN.
Read article 'CMS identifies Higgs bosons decaying to bottom quarks'
The results reveal an observed (expected) significance of the signal of 2.2 (0.8)σ, for a Higgs-boson mass of 125 GeV.
Read article 'First full jet measurement in Pb–Pb collisions with ALICE'
In high-energy collisions at the LHC, quarks and gluons occasionally scatter violently and produce correlated showers of particles, or “jets”. In proton–proton collisions, the rate o...
Read article 'ATLAS’s paths to the top-quark mass'
ATLAS has released new measurements of mtop using events with one or two isolated charged leptons and jets in the final state.
Read article 'COMPASS observes a new narrow meson'
The COMPASS collaboration has recently observed the existence of an unusual meson made from light quarks.
Read article 'Laser set-up generates electron–positron plasma in the lab'
An international team has at last succeeded in producing a neutral electron–positron plasma in a terrestrial laboratory experiment.
Read article 'RHIC smashes record for polarized-proton collisions at 200 GeV'
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has shattered its own record for producing polarized-proton collisions at 200 GeV
Read article 'Magnetic fields cast light on black hole’s edge'
The Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) has revealed an intense magnetic field at the base of the relativistic jet powered by a supermassive black hole. Probing the physical conditions...
