The European Southern Observatory’s VLT at Cerro Paranal in the Chilean Atacama desert should be complete in 2005. Its four 8.2 m telescopes and three 1.8 m telescopes will make up the most sens ...

Commercial software can’t keep pace with experimental precision when it comes to large-scale computer-algebra calculations in quantum field theory. Maintained by a single theorist for decades, FORM is ...

After a moment of turbulence, Norbert Holtkamp returns to Fermilab with a clear mandate: deliver DUNE, honour the laboratory’s legacy of bold leadership and reaffirm big science’s responsibility to ...

Ezio Todesco charts the future of high-field dipole magnets – a technology set to advance the boundaries of high-energy physics and the societal applications of superconductivity. Frontier ...

Spot the dot Little red dots appear in every pointing of the JWST imaging camera NIRCam. Credit: UNCOVER (PIs: I Labbe and R Bezanson) Every new instrument needs its mysteries, and no discovery of the ...

Long-established in accelerator physics, bent crystals are now being explored as tools to measure the fundamental properties of short-lived charm baryons. Halo extraction The first bent crystal of the ...

Six out of 1339 Six anomalous images of galaxies identified by artificial intelligence, including: a galactic merger (top right); a “collisional ring” galaxy that has been smashed by a secondary ...

A report from the ALICE experiment. Fig. 1. Away-side per-trigger nuclear modification factor I AA as a function of the associated-particle transverse momentum. Blue circles show jets tagged by ...

Michael S Turner argues that the next breakthrough in particle physics and cosmology may be just around the corner. Michael S Turner is an adjunct professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA and an ...

Cool magnets CERN has begun the cooldown of a 95 m-long test stand that reproduces the underground configuration of technologies for the Large Hadron Collider’s high-luminosity upgrade. Credit: CERN ...

Safer space The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the International Space Station measures cosmic rays with high precision, generating data that also inform space radiobiology and radiation-risk ...

A report from the ATLAS experiment. Fig. 1. Observed and expected limits at 95% CL for 1ℓ1T (purple) and displaced track (red) searches are shown in the chargino-neutralino mass difference versus ...