Flying high China’s permanently crewed space station, Tiangong, which can be translated as “sky palace”, orbits at an altitude of 340 to 450 km and was completed in 2022 following its precursors ...
Enrico Chesta, Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois and Markus Brugger highlight seven ways CERN and ESA are working together to further fundamental exploration and innovation in space technologies. Sky map The ...
Transportable antimatter trap The BASE-STEP experiment is on track to transport antiprotons to Germany next year. Credit: CERN-PHOTO-202410-259-53 Thirty years ago, physicists from Harvard University ...
Testing, one, two, three The High-Luminosity LHC test stand in November 2024. Credit: CERN The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, edited by Oliver Brüning and Lucio Rossi, is a comprehensive ...
Mark Thomson is professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge and was executive chair of the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) until his confirmation as ...
The World Wide Web, AI and quantum computing – what do these technologies have in common? They all started out as “hacks”, says Jiannan Zhang, founder of the open-source community platform DoraHacks. ...
The CLOUD experiment CERN’s Proton Synchrotron mimics the effect of cosmic rays on atmospheric gases. Credit: M Brice/CERN-PHOTO-202204-064-2 In a paper published in the journal Nature, the CLOUD ...
The line between science communication and public relations has become increasingly blurred. On one side, scientific press officers highlight institutional success, secure funding and showcase ...
General assembly The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics met in Haikou, China. Credit: Chinese Physical Society Physics is a universal language that unites scientists worldwide. No event ...