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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
From performing detailed studies of the Higgs boson to demonstrating the first antimatter quantum bit and converting lead nuclei into gold nuclei, this year CERN further expanded our knowledge of the ...
One exabyte of experimental data has now been gathered from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), marking a major milestone for CERN’s storage system. The LHC smashes billions of protons together every ...
The members of the CERN alumni network, who now number more than 10 000, had the opportunity to give feedback in the 2025 CERN alumni survey. With just under 1000 responses, the results highlighted ...
Des études détaillées du boson de Higgs à la mise en évidence du premier bit quantique d’antimatière, en passant par l’observation de la conversion de noyaux de plomb en noyaux d’or, le CERN a encore ...
The framework for former staff members active over retirement age has been updated to recognise continued contributions and clarify roles and expectations for all involved. The Retired Contributing ...
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 ...
CERN’s strongest asset is its people. The many great accomplishments we presented in our final Directorate meeting on 16 December would not have been possible without your competence, dedication and ...
The past two years have brought a lot of new computer-security deployments at CERN. Spurred on by the 2023 cybersecurity audit, the Computer Security Office in collaboration with the IT department ...