CERN Accelerating science

Following CERN's accession to status of observer to the UN General Assembly, Rolf Heuer met with Ban Ki-moon in New York

Remarkable first three-year run of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator crowned by a new performance milestone

Today the United Nations General Assembly in New York adopted a resolution granting CERN observer status

Highlights included sensitive searches for new physics, the decay of a Bs meson, quark-gluon plasma and insights on the structure of the proton

The LHC experiments will each give a brief presentation in the CERN auditorium today. Watch the webcast

See the interactive plot of papers published by the CMS collaboration since January 2010

Seven leaders of the LHC, CMS and ATLAS projects will share a $3m prize for advancing knowledge of the universe

Servers from CERN's computer centre are sent to Serbia where they will be re-used by students and researchers

A 2-day workshop is bringing together CERN researchers and companies developing innovative superconducting technologies

Before electronic computers were widely available at CERN, a Dutchman called Willem "Wim" Klein performed astonishing feats of mental arithmetic