This summer, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took a breath of fresh air. Normally filled with beams of protons, the 27-km ...

CERN’s CLEAR facility investigates novel medical applications of electron beams and the resilience of electronics in space. A ...

Following our previous article, “Block ads, stay clean”, this time we look at a more elaborate scheme to compromise your computer: “ClickFixing” – luring you into executing a very simple string of ...

CERN’s new cultural season, Generation Higgs, is dedicated to youth as a driving force of curiosity, creativity and innovation. More specifically, the name is a poetic reference to students, doctoral ...

In July 2025, LHC injected for the first time Oxygen and Neon. Motivated by physics questions of the heavy-ion and cosmic-ray community, Oxygen-Oxygen, Neon-Neon and proton-Oxygen collisions took ...

The cosmic microwave background. Charm. The Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism. CP violation. Colour. 1964 was a remarkable year for invention and discovery . The story of quarkonia began one year earlier, ...

CERN Esplanade des Particules 1 P.O. Box 1211 Geneva 23 SwitzerlandCERN & You Doing business with CERN Knowledge transfer CERN's neighbours CERN & Society Foundation Partnerships Alumni ...

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

Earth is subject to a constant bombardment of subatomic particles that can reach energies far higher than the largest machines A photomicrograph shows where high-energy electrons blazed through a film ...

The third installment of the In Practice series examines what fuels experimental physicists to work together and analyse mountains of data Another day, another mountain of data to analyse. In 2016, ...

Templates for letters and memos are available from the CERN Graphic Design office. They are available in the downloads section (authentication required): https ...

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. They use the world's largest and most complex scientific ...