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 ...

Fig. 1. World compilation of the isolated-photon cross-section at midrapidity, scaled by (√s) n to approximately reveal the gluon PDF. n = 4.5. Credit: D D’Enterria/ALICE Collab. In high-energy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Industry meets academia Experts discussed energy-efficient RF in beautiful Toledo. Credit: N Catalan Lasheras Forty-five experts from industry and academia met in the magnificent city of Toledo, Spain ...

Higgs hunters At the Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie in Paris. Credit: L Fayard The 14th Higgs Hunting workshop took place from 23 to 25 September 2024 at Orsay’s IJCLab and Paris’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...