CERN’s Large Hadron Collider continues to deliver surprises. While searching for additional Higgs bosons, the CMS collaboration may have instead uncovered evidence for the smallest composite particle ...

Accelerating education The world’s first freely accessible educational proton accelerator in action. Credit: T Delavy What better way to communicate accelerator physics to the public than using a ...

Over the past 10 years, Mónica Bello facilitated hundreds of encounters between artists and scientists as curator of the Arts at CERN programme. As she steps down, she shares her reflections on the ...

The signal could be caused by a quasi-bound top–antitop meson commonly called "toponium".

Collaboration is the engine-room of scientific progress for Europe’s large-scale research facilities. That truism also applies in equal measure to the enabling technologies that underpin day-to-day ...

Vivian Poulin asks if the tension between a direct measurement of the Hubble constant and constraints from the early universe could be resolved by new physics.

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 ...

The CMS collaboration has reported the first observation of ?? → ?? in pp collisions, setting a new benchmark for the tau lepton’s magnetic moment.

Quantum revolution Simona-Mirela Miculescu opening the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris in February. Credit: A M Yiannouli Last June, the United ...

A new result from the LHCb collaboration further tightens constraints on the lepton-flavour-universality violation in rare B decays. As direct searches for physics beyond the Standard Model continue ...

The BCVSPIN programme aims to facilitate interactions between researchers from Bangladesh, China, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India and Nepal and the broader international community.

Newly appointed EuCAPT director Silvia Pascoli sets out her vision for disentangling fundamental questions involving dark matter, the baryon asymmetry, neutrinos, cosmic rays, gravitational waves, dar ...