This video is available on YouTube. 2026 promises to be an exciting year for CERN, starting with new leadership. British physicist Mark Thomson became Director-General of the Laboratory on 1 January ...

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 ...

Cette vidéo est disponible sur YouTube. 2026 s’annonce comme une année passionnante pour le CERN, qui débute sous une nouvelle direction. Le physicien britannique Mark Thomson est le directeur général ...

During LS2, the LHC’s two external beam dumps were removed from the tunnel and replaced with spare ones. After ten years of operation, they were showing signs of degradation, notably nitrogen leaks.

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 ...

From the burning of wood to the action of medicines, the properties and behaviour of matter are governed by the way chemical elements bond with one another. For many of the 118 known elements, the ...

Cosmic rays are high-energy particles from outer space that strike Earth’s atmosphere, generating showers of secondary particles, such as muons, that can reach the planet’s surface. In recent years, ...

To date, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has discovere d 80 particles. The most famous is the Higgs boson, a crucial ingredient in the fundamental laws of the Universe. The rest are particles ...

Five teams of secondary school pupils have been selected to carry out their own experiments using accelerator beams at CERN, DESY and the University of Bonn A beamline is a facility that provides high ...

Today at 13h51, the engineer in charge of the LHC at the CERN Control Centre announced that stable beams had returned to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), marking the start of the 2025 physics ...

Our fifth story in the LHC Physics at Ten series looks at how the LHC has recreated and greatly advanced our knowledge of the state of matter that is believed to have existed shortly after the Big ...

Building 937 houses the coolest robots at CERN. This is where the action happens to build and programme robots that can tackle the unconventional challenges presented by the Laboratory’s unique ...