Protons and charged hadrons deposit energy most rapidly in the final millimetres before they stop. Pinpoint this “Bragg peak” on tumour cells and cancer can be eliminated while sparing healthy tissues ...

In an age when every click, every connection, and every emotion can be monetised, it feels almost unbelievable that the World Wide Web, the very architecture of ...

The briefing book of the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics was published in October. Paris Sphicas ...

From Fundamental Concepts to Dynamical Mechanisms, by Wolfgang Bietenholz and Uwe-Jens Wiese, Cambridge University Press.

Tim Berners-Lee dreamed of a World Wide Web for everyone. Nick Clegg and Meta had different ideas. In new books, both ignore ...

The scientific library of the late Nobel Prize-winner Professor Peter Higgs, is expected to fetch up to £25,000 at auction this month. The theoretical physicist was best known for his 1964 prediction ...

The experiment at CERN produced pairs of electron and positron beams, propagating into an ambient plasma. The international ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find aliens.

De­spite Venezuela’s sus­pen­sion of all gas deals with T&T, multi­na­tion­al en­er­gy com­pa­ny Shell says it re­mains com­mit­ted to de­vel­op­ing the Man­a­tee gas field, sig­nalling that the ...

A Catch-22 sit­u­a­tion is de­scribed as a dilem­ma or para­dox from which there is no es­cape be­cause of mu­tu­al­ly con­flict­ing or de­pen­dent con­di­tions. In this con­text, one can­not avoid a ...

Harvard Physics professor John Huth was awarded the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award by ATLAS, a group of American particle ...

The man who invented the web is aware of the many issues it faces, from problematic social media use to the rise of ...