Until now, ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs) were thought to be black holes, because their high luminosity implied a mass exceeding by far the maximal mass of a neutron star. The most luminous of th ...

Enrico Chesta, Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois and Markus Brugger highlight seven ways CERN and ESA are working together to further ...

In March, CERN selected a new experiment called SHiP to search for hidden particles using high-intensity proton beams from the SPS. Read article 'Probing resonant production of Higgs bosons' No known ...

The meeting was inspired by several recent proposals to take advantage of the unique environment of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC to search for new phenomena. Since the first school in 2001, there ...

For optical astronomy, the space station will be accompanied by the Xuntian telescope, which can be translated to “survey the ...

On 4 August 2024, the great physicist Tsung-Dao Lee (also known as T D Lee) passed away at his home in San Francisco, aged 97 ...

Inspired by high-dimensional data and the ideals of open science, high-energy physicists are using artificial intelligence to ...

Mark Thomson, CERN's Director General designate for 2025, talks to the Courier about the future of particle physics.

Sheldon Glashow recalls the events surrounding a remarkable decade of model building and discovery between 1964 and 1974.

Demonstrably cool Participants of the 2024 Muon Cooling Demonstrator Workshop at Fermilab. Credit: Fermilab . More than 100 ...

The CLOUD collaboration at CERN has revealed a new source of atmospheric aerosol particles that could help scientists to ...

The 14th Higgs Hunting workshop took place from 23 to 25 September 2024 at Orsay’s IJCLab and Paris’s Laboratoire ...