In his new popular book, Harry Cliff tackles the thorny subject of anomalies in fundamental science.

CERN alumni who have returned to the classroom reveal teaching to be one of the hardest but most rewarding things they have ever done.

The Brundtland Report definition of sustainable development is “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.

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 ...

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 ...

With a new measurement imminent, the Courier explores the experimental results and theoretical calculations used to predict ‘muon g-2’ – one of particle physics’ most precisely known quantities and ...

Quantum Drama, by Jim Baggott and John L Heilbron, Oxford University Press One hundred years of insights Jim Baggott and John Heilbron don’t neglect later quantum pioneers like John Bell (pictured).

Collisions between lead ions at the LHC generate the hottest and densest system ever created in the laboratory. Under these extreme conditions, quarks and gluons are no longer confined inside hadrons ...

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 ...

After winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979, Abdus Salam wanted to bring world-class physics research opportunities to South Asia. This was the beginning of the BCSPIN programme, encompassing ...