For the first time in CERN’s history, private donors (individuals and philanthropic foundations) have agreed to support a CERN flagship research project. Recently, a group of friends of CERN, ...

Behind every particle collision generated at the Large Hadron Collider is a multitude of technical feats. One of these is ...

One exabyte of experimental data has now been gathered from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), marking a major milestone for ...

As 2025 draws to a close, so too does the CERN 25 by ’25 initiative, launched in 2021 to improve the gender and nationality ...

Originally created for the Cité des métiers, the exhibition “The Faces of CERN: People Advancing Science” will be displayed in CERN's Globe of Science and Innovation from December 17, 2025 to March 1, ...

Prominently placed in the Main Building, the Room C (61/1-009) meeting room is used for everything from strategic discussions to protocol visits. Now that the previous photo exhibition has run its ...

Imagine a planetary computer capable of storing and processing hundreds of petabytes of data for the research needs of a worldwide community of scientists. This is the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid ...

At its 225th session, the CERN Council received the recommendations for the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, the aim of which is to develop a common vision for the future of the ...

Designing and building an energetic particle instrument always requires trade-offs in size, cost, resolution, dynamic range, etc. Although the particles are the same, the trade-offs are different for ...

The early morning of 8 December offered a reminder that, in accelerator operations, not everything always goes according to ...

For more than twenty-five years, thousands of cross-border borrowers have taken out home loans denominated in Swiss francs to purchase property located in France, without having been clearly informed ...

The emergence of collective effects between the final state particles produced in heavy-ion collisions has long been considered a signature of the presence of a deconfined medium produced in these ...