Enrico Chesta, Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois and Markus Brugger highlight seven ways CERN and ESA are working together to further fundamental exploration and innovation in space technologies. Sky map The ...

Mark Thomson is professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge and was executive chair of the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) until his confirmation as ...

Flying high China’s permanently crewed space station, Tiangong, which can be translated as “sky palace”, orbits at an altitude of 340 to 450 km and was completed in 2022 following its precursors ...

The CLOUD experiment CERN’s Proton Synchrotron mimics the effect of cosmic rays on atmospheric gases. Credit: M Brice/CERN-PHOTO-202204-064-2 In a paper published in the journal Nature, the CLOUD ...

Transportable antimatter trap The BASE-STEP experiment is on track to transport antiprotons to Germany next year. Credit: CERN-PHOTO-202410-259-53 Thirty years ago, physicists from Harvard University ...

The line between science communication and public relations has become increasingly blurred. On one side, scientific press officers highlight institutional success, secure funding and showcase ...

A report from the CMS experiment. Fig. 1. Limits on stop pair production with decays through top quarks and LSPs. The colour scale shows 95% CL upper limits on the product of the cross-section and ...

Demonstrably cool Participants of the 2024 Muon Cooling Demonstrator Workshop at Fermilab. Credit: Fermilab More than 100 accelerator scientists, engineers and particle physicists gathered in person ...

The World Wide Web, AI and quantum computing – what do these technologies have in common? They all started out as “hacks”, says Jiannan Zhang, founder of the open-source community platform DoraHacks. ...

A report from the ATLAS experiment. Fig. 1. Simulated monopole pair-production signature for PbPb ultraperipheral collisions in the ATLAS pixel detector. Credit: ATLAS Collab./CERN Magnetic monopoles ...

General assembly The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics met in Haikou, China. Credit: Chinese Physical Society Physics is a universal language that unites scientists worldwide. No event ...