“Well, Doc, You’re In”: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe is a biographical account of an epochal theoretical physicist with a mind that was, by any measure, delightful and diverse. It ...

In the May 1966 issue of CERN Courier, A J Herz (Nuclear Physics Division) and W O Lock (Personnel Division) described the development of nuclear-emulsion detectors, highlighting a CERN experiment ...

CERN Courier is essential reading for the global high-energy physics community. The website and associated print magazine highlight the latest developments in particle physics and related fields, ...

Marek Karliner and Jonathan Rosner ask what makes tetraquarks and pentaquarks tick, revealing them to be at times exotic compact states, at times hadronic molecules and at times both – with much still ...

Recent experimental results hint that some electroweak processes are not lepton-flavour independent, contrary to Standard Model expectations. If the effect strengthens as more data are gathered, ...

Geared for discovery more so than delicacy, the LHC is defying expectations by rivalling lepton colliders for precision. Guillelmo Gomez-Ceballos and Jan Kretzschmar identify five measurements of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

André de Gouvêa explains why neutrino masses imply the existence of new fundamental fields. Misfits Massive neutrinos are not part of the Standard Model. Credit: Symmetry After all these years, ...

Patrick Koppenburg and Marco Pappagallo survey the 23 exotic hadrons discovered at the LHC so far. Twenty-three exotic states Five pentaquarks and 18 tetraquarks have been discovered so far at the LHC ...

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 ...

The story of a forerunner to today’s mobile-phone screens. The SPS control room in 1977. Ted Wilson and Rae Stiening are at the desk, with its touch screens; Bent Stumpe and George Shering stand ...