Read article 'Bang, beam, bump, boson'
Bang, beam, bump, boson
Bringing the LHC to life and steering it beyond its design performance has been a rollercoaster journey for those at the helm, describes Mike Lamont.
Read article 'Bang, beam, bump, boson'
Read article 'Engaging with the invisible'
Engaging with the invisible
The outreach project Tactile Collider is changing the way particle physicists engage with visually impaired people, writes founder Rob Appleby.
Read article 'A voyage to the heart of the neutrino'
A voyage to the heart of the neutrino
The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino experiment has begun its seven-year-long programme to determine the absolute value of the neutrino mass.
Read article 'Who ordered all of that?'
Who ordered all of that?
Explaining the bizarre pattern of fermion types and masses has led theorists to suggest that the “flavour scale” could be at a much lower energy than previously thought.
Read article 'Particle physics inspires all'
Particle physics inspires all
Some 75,000 members of the public took part in the CERN Open Days on 14 and 15 September.
Read article 'Adapting to exascale computing'
Adapting to exascale computing
CERN's Graeme Stewart tours six decades of computing milestones in high-energy physics and describes the immense challenges ahead in taming data from future experiments.
Read article 'Astronomers scale new summit'
Astronomers scale new summit
The world’s largest optical/near-infrared telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope, under construction in Chile, will bring mysteries such as dark energy into focus.
Read article 'Building Gargantua'
Building Gargantua
Oliver James describes the visual effects which produced the black hole in Interstellar.
Read article 'FPGAs that speak your language'
FPGAs that speak your language
FPGAs can now be programmed in C++ and Java, bringing machine learning and complex algorithms within the scope of trigger-level analysis.
Read article 'The rise of French particle physics'
The rise of French particle physics
Founded 80 years ago, the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) is one of Europe’s largest research institutions.
