Dynamic and adaptive Inspired by inaccessible instruments such as the James Webb Space Telescope (top), CERN is moving to automate future colliders. Promising initial progress has already been made at ...

Vacuum fluctuation The fine details of “hadronic vacuum polarisation” could be the difference between reinforcing the SM and challenging it. Credit: D Zemba, Pennsylvania State University Fundamental ...

Sky map The Euclid mission released its initial data in October 2024 with the first piece of its great map of the universe, covering 132 square degrees of the southern sky and showing millions of ...

What’s in a name? Reflecting their mystery, the first exotic states were named X, Y and Z. Later on, the proliferation of exotic states required an extension of the particle naming scheme. Manifestly ...

Strange pentaquark Molecular (top) and compact (bottom) interpretations of the P ccs (4338) pentaquark discovered by the LHCb collaboration in 2022. Credit: D Dominguez Breakthroughs are like London ...

Accelerating into the future Seventy years after construction began on CERN’s still-operational Proton Synchrotron (above, left), a new generation of researchers is being called upon to help conceive ...

Precision rising The CMS detector. Credit: CERN The Standard Model – an inconspicuous name for one of the great human inventions. It describes all known elementary particles and their interactions, ...

Accelerators on a chip Forty long and thin mesas increase in length from 100 to 500 μm on a silicon chip the size of a cent coin. Each mesa supports a micron-wide dual colonnade of silicon pillars ...

No trivial pursuit Six ultra-rare decays stand out for their potential to reveal new physics this decade. Credit: D Dominguez/CERN Thanks to its 13.6 TeV collisions, the LHC directly explores distance ...

Misfits Massive neutrinos are not part of the Standard Model. Credit: Symmetry After all these years, neutrinos remain extraordinary – and somewhat deceptive. The experimental success of the ...

Complex paths Mark Palmer is director of accelerator science and technology at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Credit: BNL Why is everyone talking about the muon collider? The physics landscape has ...

Credit: IHEP To uncover the fundamental laws of the universe and its evolution is a great human endeavour. The most effective way to achieve this goal in particle physics is via powerful, high-energy ...