This video is available on YouTube. 2026 promises to be an exciting year for CERN, starting with new leadership. British physicist Mark Thomson became Director-General of the Laboratory on 1 January ...

Wikipedia turns 25! To celebrate this fantastic milestone for the world of Open Knowledge, the Wikimedia foundation organises a virtual event. The Scientific Information Service organises a watch ...

Cette vidéo est disponible sur YouTube. 2026 s’annonce comme une année passionnante pour le CERN, qui débute sous une nouvelle direction. Le physicien britannique Mark Thomson est le directeur général ...

Today at 13h51, the engineer in charge of the LHC at the CERN Control Centre announced that stable beams had returned to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), marking the start of the 2025 physics ...

As a layman I would now say… I think we have it. 4 July 2012: A packed auditorium at CERN listens keenly to the announcement from CMS and ATLAS (Image: Maximilien Brice/CERN) At the subatomic scale, ...

During LS2, the LHC’s two external beam dumps were removed from the tunnel and replaced with spare ones. After ten years of operation, they were showing signs of degradation, notably nitrogen leaks.

Particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can reach temperatures over one hundred thousand times hotter than at the centre of the Sun. Yet, somehow, light atomic nuclei and their ...

Our fifth story in the LHC Physics at Ten series looks at how the LHC has recreated and greatly advanced our knowledge of the state of matter that is believed to have existed shortly after the Big ...

Five teams of secondary school pupils have been selected to carry out their own experiments using accelerator beams at CERN, DESY and the University of Bonn A beamline is a facility that provides high ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be found at CERN in many contexts: embedded in devices, software products and cloud services procured by CERN, brought on-site by individuals or developed in-house.

Building 937 houses the coolest robots at CERN. This is where the action happens to build and programme robots that can tackle the unconventional challenges presented by the Laboratory’s unique ...

How many new particles has the LHC discovered? The most widely known discovery is of course that of the Higgs boson. Less well known is the fact that, over the past 10 years, the LHC experiments have ...