It was a real honour for me, and for the Directorate as a whole, to welcome the public to CERN Science Gateway on 24 April to discuss the Future Circular Collider (FCC) Feasibility Study. The evening ...

Following an international open call launched in collaboration with Copenhagen Contemporary in January, Arts at CERN ...

CERN has established a partnership with ENEA, the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable ...

Helge Ravn was part of the ISOLDE group from the beginning. When ISOLDE began operations at CERN in 1967, it was unique in the world ...

CERN is located in a particularly complex geological setting, which also happens to be prone to earthquakes. Seismic events of a certain magnitude have the potential to inflict substantial damage or ...

Earth Observation (EO) and particle physics research have more in common than you might think. In both environments, whether ...

The subgroup WG1-PREC “Precision in theory and experiment” is one of the five subgroups of the ECFA Higgs Factory working group WG1 on physics potential. The subgroup addresses very high-precision ...

On 29 April, the LHC team received the green light for the final step in the intensity ramp-up and added the last 141 bunches to obtain a full machine with 2352 bunches in each beam. The 2024 beam ...

The open CMS detector during the second long shutdown of CERN’s accelerator complex. (Image: CERN) When we look at ourselves in a mirror, we see a virtual twin, identical in every detail except with ...

The late physicist Joseph Polchinski once said the existence of magnetic monopoles is “one of the safest bets that one can make about physics not yet seen”. In its quest for these particles, which ...

A CERN guide takes the phrase “hands-on activity” literally at the International Geneva exhibition in Balexert shopping centre (Image: CERN) Busy shoppers put trolleys to one side to visit the CERN ...