All dressed and ready to go
In a few days, the four large experiments operating at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the 27-km long accelerator from CERN, will be...
The forgotten life of Einstein's first wife
19 December was the 141th anniversary of the birth of Mileva Marić Einstein. But who remembers this brilliant scientist? While her...
Latest news from outer space on dark matter
source: ©NASA/AMS Collaboration To celebrate the first five years of operation on board the International Space Station, Professor Sam...
Many small steps but no giant leap
Giant leaps are rare in physics. Scientific research is rather a long process made of countless small steps and this is what will be...
Enough data to probe the unknown
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has already delivered more high energy data than it had in 2015. To put this in numbers, the LHC...
Two steps closer to a possible discovery
Has CERN discovered a new particle or not? Nobody knows yet, although we are now two steps closer than in December when the first signs...
A faint ripple shakes the World
Today, scientists from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory or LIGO have proudly announced having detected the first...
Frenzy among theorists
Since December 15, I have counted 200 new theoretical papers, each one suggesting one or several possible explanations for a new particle...
If, and really only if…
If the LHC were a ladder and the new sought-after particles, boxes hidden on the top shelves, operating the LHC at higher energy is like...
A long history of sexual harassment
What a relief it was for me to hear last week that the Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 rewarded the discovery of neutrino oscillations and...
