The purpose of the Rencontres de Moriond is to discuss recent findings and new ideas in physics in a pleasant, relaxed and convivial atmosphere. The 2025 edition will take place in the pleasant winter ...

Quark Matter 2025 is the XXXI international conference on ultra-relativistic nucleus–nucleus collisions, which will be held in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. This conference brings together theoretical ...

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 ...

Experimental particle physicist Ian Shipsey, a remarkable leader and individual, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in Oxford on 7 October. Ian was educated at Queen Mary University of London and ...

Testing, one, two, three The High-Luminosity LHC test stand in November 2024. Credit: CERN The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, edited by Oliver Brüning and Lucio Rossi, is a comprehensive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Theoretical physicist James D “BJ” Bjorken, whose work played a key role in revealing the existence of quarks, passed away on 6 August aged 90. Part of a wave of young physicists who came to Stanford ...