The astonishing superheavy elements
Part of the periodic table showing the heaviest elements discovered so far The infinitely large and the infinitely small are the natural limits of human perception. While situated at opposite…
Speaking of the atom on the radio
Artist's view of the atom The question is “quite simple”: how quantum physics will complicate the approach to the atom and particularly its relation to the understanding of the electron? To…
GBAR on France Culture
The GBAR experiment at CERN (photo by David Lunney) How antimatter interacts with gravity is one of the key questions in physics which are simple enough to ask, but incredibly…