It takes a lot of electricity to power the world’s largest scientific experiment – but superconducting wires can help keep those energy costs down At peak consumption, usually from May to mid-December ...

Following the international open call launched in November 2025, Arts at CERN and the Nobel Prize Museum are pleased to ...

Innovations in various domains of integrated circuit technologies are crucial for enabling this, required to continuously ...

CERN’s CLEAR facility investigates novel medical applications of electron beams and the resilience of electronics in space. A short walk away on the CERN site, MEDICIS is developing ways to produce a ...

To learn about this, researchers are going to be looking for Higgs boson interactions with second generation matter particles, the muon and the charm quark, and also looking for extra Higgs-like ...

Mar Capeáns is a Spanish particle physicist who took up the role of CERN Director for Site Operations in January 2026. She earned a PhD in Particle Physics from the University of Santiago de ...

The accelerator complex at CERN is a succession of machines that accelerate particles to increasingly higher energies. Each machine boosts the energy of a beam of particles before ...

The Higgs boson was discovered, almost 50 years after first being proposed, by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN in 2012. But why did it take so long to find it? With a mass of more than 120 ...

CERN is run by 25 Member States, and many non-European countries are involved in different ways The CERN convention was signed in 1953 by the 12 founding states Belgium, Denmark, France, the Federal ...

Construction work for the tunnel of the world’s most iconic particle accelerator began in 1983. The tunnel was initially home to the Large Electron–Positron Collider, which ran from 1989 to 2000, and ...

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The CMS collaboration welcomes its tenth management team: spokesperson Gautier Hamel de Monchenault and deputy spokespersons Anadi Canepa and Hafeez Hoorani. The new team began their mandate on 1 ...