Read article 'ALICE investigates charm-quark hadronisation'
These two results suggest that charmed baryon formation might not be universal, and that the baryon/meson ratio depends on the collision system.
Read article 'Ancient black hole lights up early universe'
The spectrum of J1342+0928 gives us a view on the universe when it was just 690 million years old.
Read article 'Raoul Gatto 1930–2017'
A big loss for science and for a whole generation of particle theorists
Read article 'Maria Krawczyk 1946–2017'
Well-known and respected scientist from the University of Warsaw
Read article 'Lev Lipatov 1940–2017'
Leading figure worldwide in the high-energy behaviour of quantum field theory
Read article 'International committee backs 250 GeV ILC'
That is half the energy set out five years ago in the ILC’s technical design report (TDR), shortening the length of the previous design (31 km) by around a third and slashing its cost by up to 40%.
Read article 'The case of the disappearing neutrinos'
Neutrinos are popularly thought to penetrate everything owing to their extremely weak interactions with matter. A recent analysis by the IceCube neutrino observatory at the South Pole proves this is n...
Read article 'Copper reveals nickel’s doubly magic nature'
Teams at CERN’s ISOLDE facility and at RIKEN in Japan have found evidence that an exotic isotope of the metallic element nickel (78Ni) is doubly magic, opening a new vista on an important region of ...
Read article 'Novartis acquires CERN spin-off'
Global healthcare company Novartis has announced plans to acquire Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA), a spin-off radiopharmaceutical firm established by former CERN physicist Stefano Buono in 200...
Read article 'Fermilab joins CERN openlab on data reduction'
In November, Fermilab became a research member of CERN openlab – a public-private partnership between CERN and major ICT companies established in 2001 to meet the demands of particle-physics researc...
