Updates: November 2014
Beams come knocking on the LHC's door
— Weekend tests with beams brought protons just short of the LHC
CERN makes public first data of LHC experiments
— The Open Data Portal makes data from real collision events at the LHC openly available to all
LHCb observes two new baryon particles
— The particles, known as the Xi_b'- and Xi_b*-, were predicted to exist by the quark model but had never been seen before
THE Port hackathon: Technology to help people
— THE Port aims to develop technological projects that help to provide for people living in areas of conflict or natural disasters
Beamline for Schools competition 2015 launches today
— High-school students: Register your team today for the chance to win a trip to CERN and run real experiments using a fixed-target beamline
How standard is the Higgs boson discovered in 2012?
— Without a doubt, it is a Higgs boson, but is it the Higgs boson of the Standard Model? Run 2 of the LHC find out, says theorist John Ellis
UNESCO: World Science Day for Peace and Development
— This year, World Science Day for Peace and Development focuses on quality science education and aims to engage public debate on scientific issues
John Bell exhibition features CERN-inspired art
— A CERN Tweetup inspired artist Lucy McKenna to create pieces for an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bell's theorem
Crowdsourcing helps CERN to identify archive pictures
— Help us to identify the subjects of pictures currently being digitized for the CERN archive
Fifty years of Bell’s theorem
— A paper by John Bell published on 4 November 1964 laid the foundations for the modern field of quantum-information science
CERN Council selects next Director-General
— At its 173rd Closed Session today, CERN Council selected the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti, as the Organization’s next Director-General
CRISTAL-ISE software now open source
— CRISTAL-ISE, the latest version of the data-tracking software from CMS, is now freely available for research and business
UNOSAT joins the fight against Ebola
— The UNOSAT programme uses CERN computing power to map areas affected by Ebola
