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ALICE eyes the cosmos

New data from the ALICE experiment, collected when no particle beams were circulating in the LHC during pauses in Run 2, may contribute to solving a puzzle surrounding cosmic muons

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Physics
02 June, 2025
Physics
News
02 June, 2025

Connecting the small and the large scales

By collaborating with projects for future gravitational-wave observatories, CERN helps to find echoes from the past

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Knowledge sharing
19 June, 2023
Knowledge sharing
News
19 June, 2023

CERN expands its collaboration on the Einstein Telescope

CERN and the Einstein Telescope collaboration have signed a new collaboration agreement in the field of engineering and safety to advance Europe’s next-generation gravitational-wave observatory

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Knowledge sharing
20 May, 2025
Knowledge sharing
News
20 May, 2025

How imagining life on exoplanets sparks real-world solutions

The IdeaSquare Planet programme inspires students to tackle global challenges through creativity and collaboration

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At CERN
14 May, 2025

AI enhances Higgs boson’s charm

The CMS collaboration presents a new search for the decay of a Higgs boson into charm quarks, bringing physicists closer to unravelling how this unique particle endows matter with mass

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Physics
19 May, 2025
Physics
News
19 May, 2025

Chile to become an Associate Member State of CERN

On 16 May 2025, CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and Minister of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation of Chile, Aisén Etcheverry signed an agreement admitting Chile as an Associate Member State of CERN

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At CERN
16 May, 2025
At CERN
Press release
16 May, 2025

And they’re off! The 2025 LHC physics season gets underway

“Stable" particle beams are back in the LHC machine, marking the start of the 2025 physics data-taking campaign

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Accelerators
05 May, 2025

Ireland to become an Associate Member State of CERN

On 8 May 2025, CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and Irish Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science James Lawless signed an agreement admitting Ireland as an Associate Member State of CERN

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At CERN
08 May, 2025
At CERN
Press release
08 May, 2025

Top marks for CERN in 2025 European Physical Society awards

The CERN-led educational programme Beamline for Schools is among the recipients of the 2025 awards of the European Physical Society’s High Energy and Particle Physics Division

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Knowledge sharing
29 April, 2025
Knowledge sharing
News
29 April, 2025

ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC

Near-miss collisions between high-energy lead nuclei at the LHC generate intense electromagnetic fields that can knock out protons and transform lead into fleeting quantities of gold nuclei

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Physics
08 May, 2025

CERN joins the build-up phase of EOSC Federation

The Laboratory is one of 13 organisations selected to contribute to the build-up phase of the European Open Science Cloud Federation

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Computing
24 April, 2025