Read article 'The puzzle of an excess of bright early galaxies'
Read article 'The puzzle of an excess of bright early galaxies'
Read article 'The physicist who fought war and cancer'
Subatomic physics has shaped both the conduct of war and the treatment of cancer. Joseph Rotblat, who left the Manhattan Project on moral grounds and later advanced radiotherapy, embodies this dual legacy.
Read article 'CEPC matures, but approval is on hold'
The Circular Electron–Positron Collider (CEPC), a 100-km electron–positron “Higgs factory” proposed in China, has reached the technical-design stage but will not be included for approval or construction in the country’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030).
When Francesca Luoni logs on each morning at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, she’s thinking about something few of us ever consider: how to keep astronauts safe fro...
Between 29 June and 9 July 2025, LHC physicists pushed the study of the quark–gluon plasma into new territory.
PTCOG president Marco Durante describes an exciting future for the technology and shares his vision for closer international cooperation between medicine, academia and industry.
In lead collisions at the LHC, some of the strongest electromagnetic fields in the universe bombard the inside of the beam pipe with radioactive gold.
More than 100 kaon experts met at CERN in September for a hybrid workshop to take stock of the experimental and theoretical opportunities in kaon physics in the coming decades.
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Read about 'In focus: enabling technologies'
The platform technologies that underpin Europe’s large-scale research facilities
Read article 'A step towards the Higgs self-coupling'
The ATLAS collaboration used Run 2 and Run 3 data to probe Higgs-boson pair production, setting new bounds on the Higgs self-coupling.
Read article 'ALICE observes ρ–proton attraction'
The ALICE collaboration achieved the first direct measurement of the ρ⁰–proton interaction in high-multiplicity pp collisions.
Read article 'The measurement problem, measured'
Nature surveyed asked over 1000 researchers about their views on the interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Read article 'Neural networks boost B-tagging'
The LHCb collaboration developed an inclusive deep-learning flavour tagger for neutral B-mesons, improving tagging power by up to 35%.
Read article 'Machine learning and the search for the unknown'
The CMS collaboration is employing neural networks to conduct model-independent searches for short-lived particles that could escape conventional analyses.
Read article 'Standardising sustainability: step one'
The Laboratory Directors Group has published guidance on evaluating the carbon impact of accelerator projects.
Read article 'NuFact prepares for a precision era'
More than 200 physicists gathered in Liverpool from 1 to 6 September 2025 for the 26th International Workshop on Neutrinos from Accelerators.
Read article 'Mainz muses on future of kaon physics'
KAONS 2025 brought nearly 100 physicists to Mainz from 8 to 12 September 2025, to discuss the latest results in kaon physics.
Read article 'ICFA meets in Madison'
The 99th meeting of the International Committee for Future Accelerators took place on 24 August 2025, in Madison.
Read article 'Invisibles, in sight'
Around 150 researchers gathered at CERN from 1 to 5 September 2025, for the annual meeting of the Invisibles network.
Read article 'Higgs hunters revel in Run 3 data'
About 100 researchers gathered in Orsay and Paris from 15 to 17 July 2025, for the 15th Higgs Hunting workshop.
Read article 'All aboard the scalar adventure'
The first Workshop on the Impact of Higgs Studies on New Theories of Fundamental Interactions took place on the Island of Capri, Italy, from 6 to 10 October 2025.
