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CERN celebrates 25 years since the beginning of the LHC experimental programme

In October 2017 the CERN data centre broke its own record for data storage when it collected 12.3 petabytes of data over a single month

UK school groups have recreated the ATLAS detector in the gaming platform Minecraft

Today, the new CERN-MEDICIS facility has produced radioisotopes for medical research for the first time. MEDICIS (Medical Isotopes Collected from ISOLDE) aims to provide a wide range of radioisotopes, some of which can be produced only at CERN.

The crab cavities, a new technology to brighten up the future, will play an important role in the High-Luminosity LHC

Before the LHC was shut down for the winter, the operators tested techniques under development for its successor, the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC)

CERN is helping to align and test a 350-metre column to produce extra-pure argon for a dark-matter search experiment

During the 2017 LHC special runs, the LHCb experiment collected proton-proton and proton-neon data simultaneously for the first time

The last components of AWAKE – its electron source, electron beam line and electron spectrometer – have just been installed

At 10:50 yesterday morning, scientists at the pioneering SESAME light source saw First Monochromatic Light through the XAFS/XRF spectroscopy beamline, signalling the start of the laboratory’s experimental programme.

CERN was the guest of honour at the Automnales, Geneva’s huge annual fair: ten days of encounters and exchanges with the general public.

Steven Weinberg’s iconic paper, A Model of Leptons, was published in 1967 and determined the direction for high-energy particle physics research