The High-Luminosity LHC is expected to return to society nearly twice what it costs, before a single discovery is counted. Massimo Florio and Jessica Catalano explain the economics behind this number.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes first observed superconductivity in a thread of frozen mercury. A century after his death, Lucio Rossi and Markus Zerlauth trace how his discovery came to drive CERN’s colliders ...
Radiopharmaceuticals based on novel radionuclides have, for the first time, reached blockbuster proportions. Thierry Stora explains why high-energy physics has an essential role to play in scaling up ...
What is the fate of the universe? Why is there more matter than antimatter? What lurks beyond the Standard Model? Valentina Cairo and Steven Lowette explore the physics reach of the High-Luminosity ...
Astrophysical constraints stake out 90 orders of magnitude for the mass of dark-matter particles. Clara Murgui surveys this vast terrain before zooming in on a particularly interesting region of ...
In lead collisions at the LHC, some of the strongest electromagnetic fields in the universe bombard the inside of the beam pipe with radioactive gold. By following the collision fragments, John Jowett ...
Subatomic physics has shaped both the conduct of war and the treatment of cancer. Joseph Rotblat, who left the Manhattan Project on moral grounds and later advanced radiotherapy, embodies this dual ...
Mature design The CEPC Study Group has published a technical design report for its reference detector. Credit: CEPC Study Group 2025 arXiv:2510.05260 In October, the Circular Electron–Positron ...
With the story of quarkonia entering its final chapter, John Ellis shares personal recollections of five decades of discoveries and debates about the simplest composite object in QCD, whose history is ...
Michael Riordan surveys the extraordinary events of 1964 – a year that witnessed the birth of the quark model, the invention of the Higgs mechanism, the discovery of CP violation and the first ...
Orthodox quantum mechanics is empirically flawless, but founded on an awkward interface between quantum systems and classical probes. In this feature, Carlo Rovelli – himself the originator of the ...
A report from the ALICE and ATLAS experiments. The ATLAS and ALICE collaborations have announced the first results of a new way to measure the “radial flow” of quark–gluon plasma (QGP). The two ...
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