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Researchers at CERN transport antiprotons by truck in world‑first experiment

Heavier cousin of the proton discovered at the LHC

LHCb spots elusive particle in just one year of data

Sunken nuclear submarine is leaking radioactive material intermittently

Little evidence of radionuclide accumulation in vessel's surrounding environment

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CERN upgrade to LHCb experiment threatened by UK funding cuts

Russia plans to revive abandoned Soviet-era particle accelerator

The Baikal Deep Underwater Neutrino Telescope

Fermilab opens new building dedicated to Tevatron pioneer Helen Edwards

The Helen Edwards Engineering Research Center

Research headlines

Cavity-based X-ray laser delivers high-quality pulses

Electron undulator amplifies X-ray beam

Schematic showing X-ray and electron pulses in XFEL

CERN team solves decades-old mystery of light nuclei formation

ALICE collaboration identifies three-phase process that allows particles to form despite energetically unfavourable conditions

Image showing a neutron and a delta particle emerging from a white flash. The neutron and the delta particle both contain three quarks, represented by colourful spheres. Arrows indicate that the neutron and the delta subsequently undergo a reaction that produces a deuteron (a neutron-proton pair) and a pion.

Tetraquark measurements could shed more light on the strong nuclear force

CMS Collaboration focuses on a family of three all-charm exotic hadrons

Higgs decay to muon–antimuon pairs sheds light on the origin of mass

CERN’s ATLAS experiment confirms previous observation by CMS

Leftover gamma rays produce medically important radioisotopes

GeV-scale bremsstrahlung from an electron accelerator can be used to produce copper-64 and copper-67

Photo of the "Crystal Ball" detector, which is housed in a large rectangular orange metal frame. There are lots of wires coming out of it.

Sterile neutrinos: KATRIN and MicroBooNE come up empty handed

Fourth flavour not seen in beta-decay and oscillation

Photo of a worker inside KATRIN during the construction phase

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Inside the world’s particle‑physics labs: Global Physics Photowalk 2025 winners revealed

This is the fifth international photowalk following events held in 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2018

winning image of the 2025 Global Physics Photowalk

Licensing puts the power into nuclear fusion

A consultancy firm with expertise in radiation safety can help companies developing a new generation of commercial fusion reactors to navigate the regulatory framework

Superheated: A growing number of companies are aiming to build compact reactors that will deliver electricity from nuclear fusion (Credit: shutterstock/Love Employee)

A physicist’s journey into nuclear energy

Early-career physicist Natasha Khan talks about her journey to becoming a nuclear safety engineer

Natasha Khan collecting her UK Nuclear Skill award in 2024

Focusing on fusion: Debbie Callahan talks commercial laser fusion

Plasma physicist Debbie Callahan, chief strategy officer at Focused Energy, talks to Hamish Johnston about her work in laser fusion research

Nuclear-powered transport – how far can it take us?

Honor Powrie looks at the perils and plus-sides of nuclear-powered transport

Chernobyl at 40: physics, politics and the nuclear debate today

Jim Smith reflects on the 1986 disaster and how it still shapes public perception of nuclear power

Palace of Culture in Pripyat, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine

LHCb upgrade: CERN collaboration responds to UK funding cut

LHCb spokesperson-elect Tim Gershon is our podcast guest

The future of particle physics: what can the past teach us?

Robert P Crease reports from a conference at CERN on particle physics in the 1980s and 1990s

Twenty-three nominations, yet no Nobel prize: how Chien-Shiung Wu missed out on the top award in physics

Mats Larsson and Ramon Wyss reveal why Chien-Shiung Wu never won a Nobel prize

The Future Circular Collider is unduly risky – CERN needs a ‘Plan B’

Michael Riordan calls on CERN to face financial and geopolitical reality

Laser fusion: Focused Energy charts a course to commercial viability

Plasma physicist Debbie Callahan is our podcast guest

The obscure physics theory that helped Chinese science emerge from the shadows

Robert P Crease reveals the curious twist in the development of Chinese physics in the 1960s

CERN accepts $1bn in private cash towards Future Circular Collider

Cash comes as Mark Thomson takes the reins at CERN

India turns to small modular nuclear reactors to meet climate targets

While SMRs could help meet climate targets there are concerns over their commercial viability

Particle and nuclear physics: quirky favourites from 2025

Astrophysics, archaeology, neutrino lasers and more

The Fireball experiment installed in the HiRadMat irradiation area at CERN

Physicists use a radioactive molecule’s own electrons to probe its internal structure

Work on radium monofluoride could shed light on the asymmetry of matter and antimatter in the universe

Looking for inconsistencies in the fine structure constant

High-precision laser spectroscopy measurements on the thorium-229 nucleus could reveal new physics, say TU Wien physicists

Scientists in China celebrate the completion of the underground JUNO neutrino observatory

The observatory has also released its first results on the so-called solar neutrino tension

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