The LHC is currently shut down. Teams will now dismantle 1.2 kilometres of the accelerator to install the new HiLumi LHC equipment. This will be connected to the equipment installed in the new HiLumi ...

Please note: FCC public debates (in French) in Switzerland and France Registration now open 14–18 Sep | Engineering | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | RPC Conference | EN XVIII Conference on Resistive Plate ...

CERN’s science festival, Future Explorers, will celebrate exploration in all its forms. CERN invites the public to discover how curiosity, collaboration and daring help push the boundaries of ...

The current heatwave and dry conditions have significantly increased fire risk across the CERN site. Dry vegetation can ignite easily, threatening people, buildings, and operations. Despite being ...

The final laps before the major overhaul: CERN’s accelerator operators have just fired the starting pistol for the last run of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). At the end of June, four years of work ...

This phase, known as “Long Shutdown 3” or “LS3”, is expected to last up to four years and will involve thousands of experts across CERN’s sites and tunnels. The work will cover civil engineering, ...

Mick Storr was the face of CERN’s Teacher Programmes and a mentor to teachers around the world. (Image: Anna Pantelia / CERN) It was with profound sadness that we learned of the passing of Mick Storr ...

It is with great sadness that we learned that George Kalmus passed away on 27 May at the age of 91. George had a long and distinguished career in experimental particle physics, not only at CERN, where ...

The new data from the precision particle-physics detector on the International Space Station provides fresh insights into the nature of cosmic rays Since it was installed on the ISS in 2011, AMS has ...

A round of applause broke out in the CERN Control Centre on 5 July at 4.47 p.m. CEST when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detectors switched on all subsystems and started recording high-energy ...

The second-largest machine in CERN’s accelerator complex provides a stepping stone between the Proton Synchrotron and the LHC The SPS became the workhorse of CERN’s particle physics programme when it ...

The Standard Model explains how the basic building blocks of matter interact, governed by four fundamental forces. The theories and discoveries of thousands of physicists since the 1930s have resulted ...