Simone Ragoni’s book is a delightful gift for anyone whom you want to inspire to become a particle physicist of tomorrow, writes Chetna Krishna. Inspired by CERN’s international teacher programme and ...

The Strings 2024 conference looked at the latest developments in the interconnected fields of quantum gravity and quantum field theory, all under the overarching framework of string theory. The ...

From its pristine vantage point on the International Space Station, the Calorimetric Electron Telescope, CALET, has uncovered anomalies in the spectra of protons and electrons below the cosmic-ray kne ...

How can Europe’s large-scale research facilities better engage with industry and, in so doing, broaden their user base while amplifying downstream socioeconomic impacts? That’s the central question ...

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The 41st symposium, Lattice 2024, welcomed 500 participants to the University of Liverpool from 28 July to 3 August.

The “double simplex” scheme , which was invented in 2005 by US theorist Chris Quigg, was recently given a flashy makeover by Quanta magazine. Ivo van Vulpen’s popular book isn’t an airy pamphlet ...

Evolving community In a break from the past, Strings 2024 emphasised younger speakers and community organisation. Credit: CERN-PHOTO-202406-114-2 Since its inception in the mid-1980s, the Strings ...

Supersymmetry (SUSY) provides elegant solutions to many of the problems of the Standard Model (SM) by introducing new boson/fermion partners for each SM fermion/boson, and by extending the Higgs secto ...

The wonder and awe that we sense when we look at the starry skies is a major motivation to do science. Both Plato (Theaetetus 155d) and Aristotle (Metaphysics 982b12) wrote that philosophy starts in w ...

Günther Plass looks back to the very beginnings of the Proton Synchrotron in the 1950s and its subsequent career as the centrepiece of CERN's accelerator complex. This is the first book to describe ...

Collaboration is the engine-room of scientific progress for Europe’s large-scale research facilities. That truism also applies in equal measure to the enabling technologies that underpin day-to-day ...