Three words to summarize a conference
Impressive, exciting and eye-opening. This is how I would summarize the European Physics Society (EPS) particle physics conference that...
The bumpy road to discoveries
Yesterday, at the European Physics Society (EPS) Particle Physics conference in Vienna, we moved from parallel sessions to plenary...
Too exciting to leave it only to physicists
Most physicists agree: physics is too interesting to leave it only to physicists. For the first time, the European Physics Society (EPS)...
Dark matter and dark energy better watch out
Dark matter and dark energy feature prominently at the European Physics Society conference on particle physics in Vienna. Although...
Antineutrinos and pentaquarks: it’s hot in Vienna!
« We have been asking questions since 1365 ». This inspiring statement marking the 650th anniversary of the University of Vienna, is...
In search of the secret passage
Today begins the second operation period of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. By declaring “stable beams”, the LHC operators...
Success!
That's it. Yesterday evening, around 22:30, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the LHC, produced its first collisions at an energy of 13...
One universal language
« We speak one single universal language and this language is science ». These were the words CERN Director General Rolf Heuer used last...
And there it goes again
This morning around 9:30, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN produced the first proton collisions since the restart of the...