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Improved accessibility, events, audiobooks and more – find out what the new CERN Library has to offer you
Check out this curated list of upcoming events for the CERN community
The CERN Council has announced that Professor Costas Fountas will become its 25th President beginning on 1 January 2025
CERN Director-General from 2004 to 2008, he mobilised the teams to finish building the LHC and commission the machine
In the Standard Model of particle physics, the odds of this decay occurring are less than one in 10 billion
Check out photo and video highlights from the 17 September event
With its updated analysis methods, the ATLAS collaboration has significantly improved the precision of its measurements of Higgs boson interactions
The physics run for the SPS North Area will start on 4 November, followed by the LHC lead-ion physics run on 6 November, and the PS East Area on 11 November
Lucio Rossi led the group responsible for developing and launching the industrial production of the superconducting magnets for the LHC
What is happening? Should I avoid the Meyrin site? We answer these questions and more about the CERN70 official event
