A team at CERN has reported the observation of a new type of particle made up of four quarks. This discovery could enhance ...

David Black, a Presbyterian pastor from Chicago, Illinois, made headlines after a video surfaced of an ICE agent shooting a ...

Others were less easily persuaded. Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his uncompromising and ...

Relativistic electron-positron plasmas are ubiquitous in extreme astrophysical environments such as black-hole and neutron-star magnetospheres, where accretion-powered jets and pulsar winds are ...

At the heart of the Swiss-French border, beneath 100 meters of Alpine soil, a long-abandoned alchemical dream has stirred ...

Medical imaging, radiotherapy, space dosimetry, material analysis. These are just a few of the many areas that have been ...

One of the talks at the Symposium on Timepix and Medipix at CERN on 23 September. (Credit: CERN) Medical imaging, ...

A small yet innovative experiment is taking place at CERN. Its goal is to test how the CERN-born optical timing signal—normally used in the Laboratory's accelerators to synchronize devices with ...

The White Rabbit switch, a key component of the CERN-born open-source timing technology. (Image: CERN) A small yet innovative ...

George Smoot , who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for his studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), died on 18 September at the age of 80. Smoot’s work on the blackbody form and ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, is the largest particle accelerator ever built and one of the most ...

Particles similar to axions, the leading candidate for dark matter that has long eluded detection, may have already been ...