Particle accelerators can be surprisingly temperamental machines. Expertise, specialisation and experience is needed to ...

Lu Lu looks forward to the next two decades of neutrino astrophysics, exploring the remarkable detector concepts needed to ...

DESY’s new chair, Beate Heinemann, reflects on the laboratory’s evolving role in science and society – from building next-generation accelerators to navigating Europe’s geopolitical landscape.

Antoni Shtipliyski offers advice on how early-career researchers can transition into machine-learning roles in industry.

In Particle Cosmology and Astrophysics, Dan Hooper captures the rapid developments in particle cosmology over the past three ...

Grigory Vladimirovich Domogatsky, spokesman of the Baikal Neutrino Telescope project, passed away on 17 December 2024 at the ...

Oliver James of DNEG, which produced the striking black hole in the film Interstellar, describes the science behind visual effects and the challenges in this fast-growing industry. Gargantua A variant ...

Louis Lyons traces the origins of the “five sigma” criterion in particle physics, and asks whether it remains a relevant marker for claiming the discovery of new physics. Disentanglement A Jackson ...

It came as quite a surprise because as far as I know, none of the people who have been honoured with the Breakthrough Prize had already received the Nobel Prize. Of course nothing compares with the ...

Patrick Koppenburg and Marco Pappagallo survey the 23 exotic hadrons discovered at the LHC so far. Twenty-three exotic states Five pentaquarks and 18 tetraquarks have been discovered so far at the LHC ...

In the summer of 1968, while a visitor in CERN’s theory division, Gabriele Veneziano wrote a paper titled “Construction of a crossing-symmetric, Regge behaved amplitude for linearly-rising ...

The Courier matched photos from CERN’s first 25 years to current experts and asked them to reflect on how much has changed across 70 years of science. The past seven decades have seen remarkable ...