CERN Courier supports international collaboration in high-energy physics by openly communicating fundamental research and its applications. It’s a mission that comes straight from CERN’s convention – and there’s never a shortage of great work to report on. Highlights from this edition include a pioneering new statistical technique, the experimental pursuit of a fundamental feature of gluon dynamics, and seven ways particle-physics technologies are spun-off into space science. Elsewhere, Sheldon Glashow recalls a remarkable decade of discovery and we interview Mark Thomson, who in December was given a five-year mandate to be Director-General of CERN starting next year.