Authors: Guido Drexlin and Thomas Muller On October 30 2025, the European Physical Society (EPS) conferred the award `EPS Historic Site´ on the Heinrich Hertz Lecture Hall at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in recognition of the series of ingenious experiments carried out at...
Author: Anna Di Ciaccio The four major international collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider — ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb — have been jointly awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to advancing our understanding of the fundamental laws of nature....
The European Physical Society released a new Cebr report about “The Importance of Physics for the Economies of Europe” Brussels, 4th November 2025 The European Physical Society (EPS) and the Centre for Economic and Business Research (Cebr) have released the third edition of the report...
CERN welcomes Ireland as an Associate Member State Ireland has officially become an Associate Member State of CERN, following confirmation that it has taken all the necessary steps to ratify the Associate Membership Agreement and accede to the protocol on CERN’s privileges and immunities. The starting date of Ireland’s status as an Associate Member State...
Nanometa 2026: You can still submit your paper! The deadline is extended to 27th October.Visit the website of the conference to submit: https://www.nanometa.org/
The first high-energy collisions between light nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider confirm the unusual “bowling-pin” shape of neon nuclei and offer up a new tool to study the extreme state of matter produced in the aftermath of the Big Bang CERN, Geneva, 18th September...
Since May 2025, José María de Teresa is the new President-Elect of the European Physical Society. Gina Gunaratnam, EPS communications coordinator, interviewed Prof. de Teresa. How did you get to know the European Physical Society? During my PhD, I learned that one of my supervisors...
Author: Radu Constantinescu The Balkan Physical Union (BPU) is the Union of the National Physical Societies from the following 10 countries, all of which are also EPS members: Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Turkey, https://balkanphysicalunion.info/. Founded in 1985, the...
Herwig Schopper, EPS President from 1995 to 1997, passed away at the age of 101 Authors: James Gillies, Rolf Heuer, and Rüdiger Voss (CERN) Herwig Schopper passed away on 19 August at the age of 101. A brilliant scientist, manager and diplomat, he will be...
Double crystal channelling was observed for the first time at the LHC, a milestone for future short-lived particle research Geneva, 29th August, 2025, by Insa Meinke, CERN Might two bent crystals pave the way to finding new physics? The Standard Model of particle physics describes...