Physics

Space

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs dies aged 94

Peter Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013.

09/04/2024

Tech News

How CERN will hunt 'ghost particles' to better understand the Universe

CERN is launching a project that researchers say could help them prove the existence of hidden particles that make up the fabric of the Universe.

26/03/2024

Tech News

CERN scientists reveal plans for next-generation particle accelerator

It is hoped that CERN's planned new "Future Circular Collider" will be able to discover what makes up dark matter.

06/02/2024

Mobility

An iPhone survived a 4,500-metre fall from a plane intact. How?

A social media user posted a photo of an iPhone that appeared to fall from an Alaska Airlines flight after part of the fuselage broke away from the plane. A space scientist explains why it stayed intact.

11/01/2024

Culture news

Culture Re-View: Spare a thought for Schrödinger's Cat

On this day in 1935: Physicist Erwin Schrödinger published his famous thought experiment ‘Schrödinger’s Cat.’

29/11/2023

Tech News

Physicist says his study supports computer simulation theory

Dr Melvin Vopson published the research in AIP Advances which suggests that the universe behaves just like a computer, ordering and deleting unnecessary information.

04/11/2023

Culture news

Venice 2023 review: 'L'ordine del tempo' ('The Order of Time')

It’s the end of the world as we know it – and I’m rooting for the asteroid.

30/08/2023

Culture news

Culture Re-View: The day Stephen Hawking threw a time traveller party

28 June 2009: When Stephen Hawking held a party for time travellers

28/06/2023

Health news

This quantum tech can make MRI imaging 100,000 times stronger

NVision leverages quantum technology to make MRI imaging 100,000 times more precise, using existing machines.

02/06/2023

Culture news

Culture Re-View: A look back at this day in history

Want to understand all the references in a Big Bang Theory episode, the discovery on this day in 1926 is the secret to it all.

27/01/2023

Culture news

Culture Re-View: A look back at this day in history

Culture Re-View: Vincent Van Gogh slashes his left ear. Also on this day: Jane Austen's 'Emma' is published, the point-contact transistor is first demonstrated, and Kobe Bryant breaks a record

23/12/2022

Tech News

Europe’s energy crisis forces early shutdown of Large Hadron Collider

The world’s largest particle-physics lab normally runs up huge energy bills. This winter, it’s trying to cut its consumption.

10/11/2022

Europe News

CERN re-launches particle accelerator to begin new era of experiments

Euronews spoke to CERN scientist Claudio Bortolin about what this means for the organisation's future.

05/07/2022

Switzerland

Higgs Boson researchers mark 10 year anniversary with return to particle studies

Higgs Boson researchers mark 10 year anniversary with return to particle studies

01/07/2022

Destinations

Belgian city celebrating its explosive history with a Big Bang!

Birthplace of the Big Bang theory, the Belgian city of Leuven is celebrating its history with a three-month-long arts festival.

27/11/2021

Culture news

Einstein’s general relativity manuscript auctioned for €11.6m

A manuscript in which Albert Einstein prepared his theory of general relativity has sold at auction in Paris for a record €11.6 million.

24/11/2021

Sweden

Two Europeans among trio to win Nobel Prize in Physics

It comes 100 years since the same award was given to Albert Einstein

05/10/2021

Tech News

Euroviews. Scientists need diversity for better climate solutions

To solve the climate crisis, leaders must create more diverse teams and international partnerships so solutions can be scaled.

19/08/2021

Tech News

Why are scientists getting excited about nuclear fusion?

Nuclear fusion is the process that is at work in the stars and sun. American scientists say they could be on the verge of harnessing it for clean energy.

18/08/2021

Russia

Russian physicist and Nobel laureate Zhores Alferov dies at 88

Alferov was a Russian scientist who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He won the 2000 Nobel Prize in physics.

02/03/2019