An event at CERN’s IdeaSquare held on 8 August demonstrated how citizen science and novel artificial intelligence (AI) techniques developed at the Large Hadron Collider can contribute to combating ...

AWAKE, a CERN experiment that explores how to make particle accelerators more compact, has become the first facility to pause operations for CERN’s third long shutdown (LS3). While most of CERN’s ...

The Schengen area, without internal borders, has now been in existence for 30 years. It comprises 29 countries: the 25 EU member states (except Cyprus and Ireland) and 4 non-EU countries (Iceland, ...

Unsolicited marketing and, even worse, fraudulent calls are unfortunately very common nowadays. Although total protection is impossible, the CERN Telephony Service has implemented several mechanisms ...

Accelerator Report: Focus on luminosity production Following the successful oxygen and neon ion runs, protons are back in the LHC, delivering luminosity at a high rate and slowly catching up with the ...

La mise en place de services et d’applications informatiques infaillibles et entièrement sécurisées n’est qu’une chimère. Il n’existe pas de logiciel qui soit sécurisé à 100 %, et c’est normal. En eff ...

In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the CLOUD collaboration at CERN reveals a new source of atmospheric aerosol particles that could help scientists to refine climate models. Aerosols ...

Our fourth story in the LHC Physics at Ten series discusses the LHC’s hunt for the hypothetical particle that may make up dark matter ...

The Open Quantum Institute (OQI) passes a new milestone today, with the operational launch at CERN. Following a successful one-year incubation period led by the Geneva Science and Diplomacy ...

LHC Page 1 showing the first stable beams of 2024 (Image: CERN) On Friday 5 April, at 6.25 p.m., the LHC Engineer-in-Charge at the CERN Control Centre (CCC) announced that stable beams were back in ...

On a peaceful afternoon in early summer 1977, the laboratory of CERN radiobiologist Marilena Bianchi was visited by a physicist with a pretty unusual request. He asked for her help in his quest to ...