One exabyte of experimental data has now been gathered from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), marking a major milestone for ...

Originally created for the Cité des métiers, the exhibition “The Faces of CERN: People Advancing Science” will be displayed in CERN's Globe of Science and Innovation from December 17, 2025 to March 1, ...

Imagine a planetary computer capable of storing and processing hundreds of petabytes of data for the research needs of a ...

Prominently placed in the Main Building, the Room C (61/1-009) meeting room is used for everything from strategic discussions to protocol visits. Now that the previous photo exhibition has run its ...

Particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can reach temperatures over one hundred thousand times hotter than at ...

As 2025 draws to a close, so too does the CERN 25 by ’25 initiative, launched in 2021 to improve the gender and nationality ...

Designing and building an energetic particle instrument always requires trade-offs in size, cost, resolution, dynamic range, etc. Although the particles are the same, the trade-offs are different for ...

Next time you walk by Building 40, you’ll notice a sinuous hedge on the lawn that has been left to grow into a meadow, along ...

The early morning of 8 December offered a reminder that, in accelerator operations, not everything always goes according to ...

The past two years have brought a lot of new computer-security deployments at CERN. Spurred on by the 2023 cybersecurity audit, the Computer Security Office in collaboration with the IT department ...

After a few final laps around the ring, the beams of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) were paused at 6.00 a.m. on Monday, 8 December for the usual year-end technical stop. Launched on 5 May, the LHC’s ...

Gauge theories are the foundation of much of modern high-energy physics, from lattice QCD simulations to effective field theories that model complex phenomenology in high-energy experiments. Despite ...