Opinion Archives – Page 2 of 23

A word with CERN’s next Director-General

Mark Thomson, CERN's Director General designate for 2025, talks to the Courier about the future of particle physics.

The value of being messy

Claire Malone argues that science communicators should not stray too far into public-relations territory.

Summer students working on the ATLAS experiment

An obligation to engage

As the CERN & Society Foundation turns 10, founding Director-General Rolf-Dieter Heuer argues that physicists have a duty to promote curiosity and evidence-based critical thinking.

Exploding misconceptions

Cosmologist Katie Mack talks to the Courier about how high-energy physics can succeed in #scicomm by throwing open the doors to academia.

Steering the ship of member states

An interview with Eliezer Rabinovici, the president of the CERN Council.

Look to the Higgs self-coupling

Matthew McCullough argues that beyond-the-Standard Model physics may be most strongly expressed in the Higgs self-coupling.

How to democratise radiation therapy

Manjit Dosanjh and Steinar Stapnes tell the Courier about the need to disrupt the market for a technology that is indispensable when treating cancer.

The next 10 years in astroparticle theory

Newly appointed EuCAPT director Silvia Pascoli sets out her vision for disentangling fundamental questions involving dark matter, the baryon asymmetry, neutrinos, cosmic rays, gravitational waves, dar...