Read article 'General relativity at 100'
General relativity at 100
Testing Einstein’s masterpiece with ever increasing precision.
Read article 'General relativity at 100'
Read article 'Gravity’s quantum side'
Gravity’s quantum side
There is little doubt that, in spite of their overwhelming success in describing phenomena over a vast range of distances, general relativity (GR) and the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics are i...
Read article 'The LHC’s extra dimension'
The LHC’s extra dimension
Searches at ATLAS and CMS constrain models of extra dimensions.
Read article 'Catching a gravitational wave'
Catching a gravitational wave
The technology behind LIGO’s epochal discovery.
Read article 'Does antimatter fall up?'
Does antimatter fall up?
Measuring the effect of gravity on antimatter is a long-standing story. Now we are in a position to test Einstein’s equivalence principle with antimatter by directly measuring the free fall of antia...
Read article 'The many lives of supergravity'
The many lives of supergravity
The early 1970s was a pivotal period in the history of particle physics. Following the discovery of asymptotic freedom and the Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism a few years earlier, it was the time wh...
Read article 'Linking waves to particles'
Linking waves to particles
Gravitational waves could also shed light on the microscopic world.
Read article 'CERN soups up its antiproton source'
CERN soups up its antiproton source
The Extra Low ENergy Antiproton ring (ELENA) is now in the commissioning phase.
Read article 'Testing times for space–time symmetry'
Testing times for space–time symmetry
Numerous experiments, many of them at CERN, are testing for violations of Lorentz and CPT symmetry in the search for new physics.
Read article 'Cosmic rays continue to confound'
Cosmic rays continue to confound
Five years of data from the AMS experiment on board the International Space Station reveal intriguing features, says Sam Ting.
