Taken from the March 2021 issue of Physics World, where it first appeared under the headline "Rethinking nuclear for a greener planet" Troels Schönfeldt, co-founder and chief executive of Danish start ...

Alex Bogacz, a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility since 1997, has spent his career in accelerator physics solving problems. From ...

Belgian-American particle physicist Francis Halzen has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work ...

Collisions between particles at high energies can sometimes produce new particles and shed light on interactions between the ...

As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is “When are you going to find something?”. Resisting the temptation to sarcastically ...

At every moment, subatomic particles stream in unfathomable numbers through your body. Each second, about 100 billion neutrinos from the sun pass through your thumbnail, and you’re bathed in a rain of ...