The universe is a cosmic web, woven from vast filaments that connect galaxies and clusters. Elena Pinetti explains how these elusive threadlike structures are opening a new window on the nature of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astrophysical constraints stake out 90 orders of magnitude for the mass of dark-matter particles. Clara Murgui surveys this vast terrain before zooming in on a particularly interesting region of ...

Breaking with decades of haloscope design, the ALPHA and MADMAX collaborations are pushing the search for dark matter into a promising new niche. High-mass haloscope Graduate student Heather Jackson ...

In lead collisions at the LHC, some of the strongest electromagnetic fields in the universe bombard the inside of the beam pipe with radioactive gold. By following the collision fragments, John Jowett ...

With the story of quarkonia entering its final chapter, John Ellis shares personal recollections of five decades of discoveries and debates about the simplest composite object in QCD, whose history is ...

Michael Riordan surveys the extraordinary events of 1964 – a year that witnessed the birth of the quark model, the invention of the Higgs mechanism, the discovery of CP violation and the first ...

Orthodox quantum mechanics is empirically flawless, but founded on an awkward interface between quantum systems and classical probes. In this feature, Carlo Rovelli – himself the originator of the ...

Automated space telescopes are inspiring a new generation of particle accelerators that are primarily operated by AI. Verena Kain highlights four ways machine learning is already making the LHC more ...

Nuria Catalan Lasheras and Igor Syratchev explain why klystrons are strategically important to the future of the field – and how CERN plans to boost their efficiency above 90%. Generating power ...

Vivian Poulin asks if the tension between a direct measurement of the Hubble constant and constraints from the early universe could be resolved by new physics. On large scales the dominant motion of ...