Last week, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) issued a press release regarding the faster-than-light neutrinos that the OPERA collaboration had reported detecting last September, saying that they did, after all, respect the cosmic limit put forward by Einstein in his theory of special relativity....

This Nature blog post reports on some possible sources of error that may rule out the problem of the superluminal neutrinos reported by the OPERA team earlier in September 2011.

The neutrinos are subatomic particles produced at CERN near Geneva that arrive 2.4 milliseconds later in Italy after...

Dark Energy Physics gets a Nobel Prize and a dedicated Space Mission in one day.

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded on Tuesday to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess for their leadership of the teams that discovered the apparent...

Neutrinos have become a buzzword this week since the OPERA collaboration released a pre-print last Thursday suggesting some neutrinos had been found travelling faster than the speed of light. If the OPERA collaboration results are confirmed, this means the beginning of a new era in our...

When non-scientists learn that I am an astrophysicist, they often ask me if it's lonely being the only women in the lab. This stereotype is ill-founded, since over 40% of PhD students in mathematics, physics and computing in Europe are women (35% for astrophysics in the...