What is the fate of the universe? Why is there more matter than antimatter? What lurks beyond the Standard Model? Valentina Cairo and Steven Lowette explore the physics reach of the High-Luminosity ...

Gianluigi Arduini, Philip Burrows and Jacqueline Keintzel report on the findings of a working group mandated to compare seven proposals for CERN’s next large-scale collider. The view from Le Reculet ...

In recent years, no Standard Model prediction has come under greater scrutiny than the magnetic moment of the muon. The Courier caught up with Muon g-2 Theory Initiative chair Aida El-Khadra on ...

Chen-Ning Yang, a towering figure in science whose numerous insights shaped contemporary theoretical physics, passed away in Beijing on 18 October 2025 at the age of 103. Yang was one of the greatest ...

Legacy The Marietta Blau Institute is named after a pioneer of nuclear-emulsion techniques. Credit: MBI/OEAW/J Krpelan On 7 November 2025, the Austrian Academy of Sciences inaugurated the Marietta ...

Expanding systems The 25th Zimányi Winter School was jointly organised by the Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics of the HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics and the Institute of Physics ...

A lifetime disagreement The neutron-lifetime community assembled at PSI to discuss a stubborn 5σ tension. Credit: B Lauss/PSI Free neutrons have a lifetime of about 880 seconds, yet a longstanding ...

The ALICE collaboration has performed one of the most precise studies of strange-to-non-strange hadron production to date at ...

Collapsing monster Simulation of a primordial monster star giving birth to a quasar – an extremely luminous active galactic ...