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...
Katowice, Poland — 2nd September 2025. The 49th Congress of Polish Physicists will convene in Katowice on 6th–11th September 2025, bringing together researchers, educators and innovators to discuss frontier science and the role of physics in Europe’s most pressing societal challenges—from energy transition and climate...
The Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Division (AMOPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) is happy to announce that the 2025 EPS AMOD Young Scientist Prize goes to: Elisabeth Gruber, University of Innsbruck, Austria “for her invention of techniques to form ions of arbitrary complexity...
CERN, 21st August 2025 Herwig Schopper, Director-General of CERN from 1981 to 1988, passed away on 19 August at the age of 101. An eminent physicist and a visionary diplomat, he played a key role in shaping fundamental physics in Europe and in making CERN...
Author: Thomas Strebler From 7 to 11 July 2025, the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2025) gathered 800 physicists from around the world at the Palais du Pharo in Marseille, France. Organised by six French CNRS laboratories, this flagship conference of...
The European Solar Physics Division is happy to announce the winners of the 2025 ESPD Prizes. The ESPD Patricia Edwin Thesis Prize is awarded to Dr. Ayu Ramada Sukarmadji for her outstanding PhD research on solar nanojets. Through an innovative combination of multi-wavelength observations, MHD simulations,...