Read article 'Jacques Soffer 1940–2019'
Jacques Soffer was a prolific theorist and phenomenologist who played a big part in persuading the elementary particle community of the importance of polarisation-type measurements.
Read article 'Anton Oed 1933–2018'
Anton Oed was a passionate inventor whose introduction of micro-strip gas chambers at the Institut Laue-Langevin in 1988 was a decisive breakthrough in the field of radiation detectors.
Read article 'The galaxy that feeds three times per day'
Astronomers puzzled by galaxy that emits strong bursts of X-rays every nine hours.
Read article 'European strategy enters next phase'
The 250-page briefing book of the European Strategy for Particle Physics has been published.
Read article 'Hadron therapy to get heavier in Southeast Europe'
Design phase begins for SEEIIST, a centre for internationally competitive research founded in the spirit of the CERN model.
Read article 'KATRIN sets first limit on neutrino mass'
Their 90% confidence upper limit of 1.1 eV halves the previous best model-independent bound with just one month of data.
Read article 'Black-hole snap scoops 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics'
The $3 million prize will be shared equally between 347 researchers who were co-authors of the six papers published by the EHT collaboration on 10 April.
Read article 'Black-hole image constrains ultra-light dark matter'
The inferred mass, spin and age of M87* are incompatible with the existence of fuzzy dark matter with masses of the order of a few 10-21 eV.
Read article 'A new centre for astroparticle theory'
On 10 July, CERN and the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC) founded a new research centre for astroparticle physics theory called EuCAPT.
Read article 'CERN and ESA join forces in harsh environments'
CERN has signed a collaboration agreement with the European Space Agency to address the challenges of harsh radiation environments.
