One last dance Event displays from some of the final collisions recorded by the four large LHC experiments, ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb (left to right, top to bottom), before the machine’s third Long ...

Szymon Łopaciuk, Giacomo Broggi, Frederik Van der Veken and John Salvesen explain how Xsuite drew CERN’s fragmented beam-simulation tools into a single framework used to operate and optimise existing ...

If dark matter couples feebly enough to evade direct detection, it may still betray itself by stealing energy from a beam. Paolo Crivelli, Laura Molina-Bueno and Sergei Gninenko look back on 10 years ...

The CERN Council has updated the European Strategy for Particle Physics, naming the FCC-ee as the preferred next flagship collider for CERN. Council president Costas Fountas reflects on the process ...

Ground state, split An aerial view of the ALPHA experiment in CERN’s Antimatter Factory, where antihydrogen is trapped and its ground-state hyperfine splitting measured to four parts per million.

A report from the ALICE experiment. When lead nuclei collide at the LHC, they create tiny droplets of quark–gluon plasma, an extremely hot and dense state of matter in which quarks and gluons are no ...

Former CERN Council President Eliezer Rabinovici reflects on the 4th International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics, and on the two decades in which discovery owed its successes to ...

Mannque Rho was a central figure in clarifying the role of chiral symmetry in nucleons, nuclei and dense nuclear matter. Credit: G Ripka/IPhT Mannque Rho, a world-renowned theoretical nuclear ...

Strategy, updated The CERN Council in Budapest for its dedicated session on the European Strategy for Particle Physics, on 22 May 2026. Credit: Marton, KOVACS/CERN On 22 May, at a dedicated session in ...

Homecoming This year’s edition of the LoopFest conference series returned to Brookhaven National Laboratory, where it began in 2002. Credit: K Coughlin/Brookhaven National Laboratory From 27 to 29 May ...

Unified field PLANCK 2026, held alongside the 6th EuCAPT Symposium, brought more than 250 physicists to CERN. Credit: Ml Escudero Abenza From 18 to 22 May 2026, the 28th annual PLANCK conference – ...

Marvin Marshak is remembered for his energy, charm and perpetual smile. Credit: Fermilab We were sad to hear of the passing of Marvin Marshak, who died on 2 April at the age of 80. Marshak was born in ...