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The joy of summer conferences

After the online conferences of the past years, there is something all the more special about coming together face-to-face, to share and discuss a wealth of results this summer

Opinion
Physics
31 August, 2023
Physics
Opinion
31 August, 2023

Looking back on a good year for physics

Opinion
Physics
06 December, 2022
Physics
Opinion
06 December, 2022

A roadmap for the future

CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and Gian Giudice, Head of CERN's Theory Department, comment on the scientific vision and priorities for the field laid out in the recently updated European Strategy for Particle Physics

Opinion
Physics
02 October, 2020
Physics
Opinion
02 October, 2020

Thirty years of LEP’s Z0 line shape

Thirty years ago this week, the four experiments at CERN’s LEP collider published the first of their famous results: the Z0 line shape, which told us that there are three, and only three, families of fundamental particles in nature

Opinion
Physics
15 October, 2019
Physics
Opinion
15 October, 2019

Lessons from Granada

The Granada symposium stimulated much lively discussion on the future of particle physics

Opinion
Physics
29 May, 2019
Physics
Opinion
29 May, 2019

The case for future colliders

With the update of the European strategy for particle physics underway, it’s timely to examine the case for a future collider to follow the LHC

Opinion
Physics
08 April, 2019
Physics
Opinion
08 April, 2019

The usefulness of useless knowledge

Fundamental science will help solve the world’s problems

Opinion
Physics
15 January, 2019
Physics
Opinion
15 January, 2019

Opinion: We need to talk about the Higgs

It is six years ago that the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced, to great fanfare in the world’s media, as a crowning success of CERN’s LHC

Opinion
Physics
06 July, 2018
Physics
Opinion
06 July, 2018

A feast of physics to tide us over until Moriond…

CERN has a very rich physics programme not only at the high-energy frontier, let’s take a look at some of the interesting results it’s producing.

Opinion
Physics
27 February, 2018
Physics
Opinion
27 February, 2018