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Thursday 23 January 2025 World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject » Image credit: ESO On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a proje...
Tuesday 7 January 2025 The CTAO Becomes a European Research Infrastructure Consortium » image credit: CTAO Bologna, Italy, 7 January 2025 – On January 7, 2025, the European Commission established the...
Thursday 23 January 2025 (0 Comments - view/add) ERC: Europe must prioritise research and innovation to be competitive » 17 January 2025, op-ed by Jean Tirole and Maria Leptin...
Friday 6 December 2024 Professor Thomas Nilsson is the new Scientific Managing Director of FAIR and GSI » GSI, press release, 2nd December 2024 The renowned Swedish experimental physicist Professor Thomas Nilsson took up the...
Tuesday 26 November 2024 A gold mine for neutrino physics » The DUNE experiment is taking shape deep in the same mine where physicists got the first hint that something was amiss w...
Friday 22 November 2024 CERN Council selects Mark Thomson as next Director-General, starting in 2026 » Professor Mark Thomson selected as the new Director-General of CERN, starting in 2026 (Image: CERN) Pr...
Tuesday 15 October 2024 Professor Costas Fountas elected as next President of the CERN Council » Professor Costas Fountas 25th President of the CERN Council. (Image: CERN) The CERN Council has anno...
Tuesday 3 September 2024 ESO — EHT scientists make highest-resolution observations yet from the surface of Earth » The illustration shows Earth in 3D on the left, with red dots on it. Some of the dots are brightened up in a yellow glow....
Tuesday 3 September 2024 CERN welcomes Estonia as its 24th Member State » As Estonia becomes a full Member State of CERN, the Estonian flag is photographed along with the CERN flag (image: CERN)....
Friday 28 June 2024 Students from Estonia, Japan and the USA win the 11th edition of Beamline for Schools » Winners of the 2024 CERN Beamline for Schools competition: “Mavericks” from Estonia (top right), “SPEEDers” from the USA (...
Thursday 20 June 2024 ESO: Astronomers see a massive black hole awaken in real time » Artist’s impression: the galaxy SDSS1335+0728 lighting up - image credit: ESO 18th June 2024, press release ES...
Tuesday 11 June 2024 IAEA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme » Spread the word! The IAEA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme (MSCFP) next application call is scheduled to open...
Tuesday 21 May 2024 Nuclear fusion: Top marks for facilities at the MPI for Plasma Physics » Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics - IPP, 21st May 2024 The European research consortium EUROfusion has had more th...
Monday 15 April 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) ProtoDUNE’s argon filling underway » 12 April, 2024, By Chetna Krishna, CERN ProtoDUNE begins liquid argon filling (Image: CERN) This will be...
Tuesday 9 April 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) The CMS experiment at CERN measures a key parameter of the Standard Model » The CMS experiment (image: CERN) With this measurement the LHC is again demonstrating its ability t...
Monday 11 March 2024 Groundbreaking survey reveals secrets of planet birth around dozens of stars » Planet-forming discs in three clouds of the Milky Way - image credit: ESO ESO, 5th March 2024. In a series of studies...
Monday 19 February 2024 Nuclear fusion: European joint experiment achieves energy record » 8th February 2024, Press release from Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik At the Joint European Torus (JET)...
Thursday 15 February 2024 Greetings from the island of enhanced stability: The quest for the limit of the periodic table » Press release, 13th February 2024 Review in Nature Review Physics discusses major challenges in the field of superheav...
Thursday 25 January 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) CERN Celebrates 70 Years of Scientific Discovery and Innovation » Geneva, January 25, 2024. Today CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, announced a programme to c...
Tuesday 28 November 2023 Exotic atomic nucleus sheds light on the world of quarks » The ISOLDE set-up used to study the exotic nucleus of aluminium. (Image: CERN) Geneva, 28th November 2023 E xperim...
Tuesday 14 November 2023 The CMS collaboration at CERN presents its latest search for new exotic particles » Illustration of two types of long-lived particles decaying into a pair of muons, showing how the signals of the muons can...
Tuesday 17 October 2023 Successful experiment with FAIR detector in Japan – First measurement of nucleus oxygen-28 » Researchers of the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and the Technical University in Darmstadt, together wit...
Tuesday 10 October 2023 CERN inaugurates Science Gateway, its new outreach centre for science education » From left to right: President of the CERN Council, Eliezer Rabinovici, President of the Swiss Confed...
Friday 8 September 2023 Commission and UK reach political agreement on UK participation in Horizon Europe and Copernicus » The European Commission and the United Kingdom reached a political agreement on 7th September 2023 on the UK's partici...
Thursday 7 September 2023 On the track of elusive neutrinos » View to Seattle: While the Project 8 group in Mainz is focusing on the development of atomic sources, the first prototyp...
Thursday 7 September 2023 Furthest ever detection of a galaxy’s magnetic field » ALMA view of the 9io9 galaxy - © ESO ESO, 6th September 2023. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array...
Friday 18 August 2023 New type of star gives clues to mysterious origin of magnetars » Artist’s impression of HD 45166, the star that might become a magnetar - © ESO Magnetars are the strongest magnets in...
Tuesday 8 August 2023 (0 Comments - view/add) ATLAS sets record precision on Higgs boson’s mass » New result from the ATLAS experiment at CERN reaches the unprecedented precision of 0.09% In the 11 years...
Tuesday 1 August 2023 New image reveals secrets of planet birth » Combined SPHERE and ALMA image of material orbiting V960 Mon - image credit: ESO 25th July 2023. A spectacular new ima...
Thursday 15 June 2023 LHCb tightens precision on key measurements of matter–antimatter asymmetry » The LHCb experiment (image: CERN) Geneva 16th June 2023 The Big Bang is thought to have created equal amounts of ma...
Tuesday 6 June 2023 LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay » Candidate events from ATLAS (left) and CMS (right) for a Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson and a photon...
Thursday 1 June 2023 ISOLDE takes a solid tick forward towards a nuclear clock » image credit: CERN Geneva, 24th May 2023. Atomic clocks are the world’s most precise timekeepers. Based on period...
Thursday 27 April 2023 (0 Comments - view/add) First direct image of a black hole expelling a powerful jet » A view of the jet and shadow of M87’s black hole - image credit: ESO For the first time, astronomers have observed,...
Thursday 6 April 2023 Improved ATLAS result weighs in on the W boson » Geneva, 23 March 2023. The W boson , a fundamental particle that carries the charged weak force, is the subject of...
Friday 10 March 2023 Astronomers find missing link for water in the Solar System » Water in the planet-forming disc around the star V883 Orionis (artist’s impression) - Image credit: ESO ES...
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