Most atomic nuclei are round or the shape of a rugby ball. But some have been found to have a more exotic pear shape, with ...

Ireland has officially become an Associate Member State of CERN, following confirmation that it has taken all the necessary ...

As manufacturing of the components for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) reaches its final stages, installation activities are ...

Intensity is rising in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC): last week, the accelerator propelled particle bunches containing more ...

The meeting of the High-Luminosity LHC collaboration at the beginning of October saw the baton passed to a new project leader ...

The research programme at CERN covers topics from kaons to cosmic rays, and from the Standard Model to supersymmetry ...

The electronic voting process for the Senior Staff Consultative Committee (known as “the Nine”) closed at midnight on Sunday, ...

Feasibility Study, Lake Geneva underwater investigations have now begun. Taking place in 2025 and 2026, these explorations are using two techniques: seismic waves to analyse the geological layers ...

In the ancient past (20 years ago), control systems used to be stand-alone systems, usually decoupled from the larger enterprise networks, using their own network cabling infrastructures (based on a ...

On 14 CERN unveiled the Nobel medal of Felix Bloch, generously donated by Bloch’s family on the 120th anniversary of the physicist’s birth. Now part of the CERN archives, this medal will be on ...

Kamran Naim, Head of Open Science at CERN, welcomes attendees to the Open Science Fair (OSFair 2025), hosted by the CERN Open Science Office and OpenAIRE from 15 to 17 September. 353 participants from ...

At CERN, the Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS) are our safety frontline: first responders in emergencies and trusted guides in both real evacuations and drills. On 26 September 2025, roles were reversed ...