Author: Anaïs Schaeffer
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First-ever collisions of oxygen at the LHC
The Large Hadron Collider gets a breath of fresh air as it collides beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first time. Oxygen–oxygen and neon–neon collisions are also on the menu of the next few days
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Lift off: CERN engineer travels to space
CERN engineer Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, now an ESA astronaut, has just taken off for the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
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Antiprotons to test the Standard Model
The PAX experiment, the first user of the antimatter factory’s new test beamline, is studying quantum electrodynamics using atoms containing an antiproton
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An antimatter beam open for booking
Need an antiproton beam? TELMAX, the new test beamline at CERN’s antimatter factory, is now open for booking
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2025 relay race: sport, music and festivities
The 53rd CERN relay race broke all records. And once it was over, it was time to celebrate the Staff Association’s 70th anniversary
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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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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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Particles are back in the accelerators
The four accelerators that feed into the Large Hadron Collider have all been restarted, while the LHC itself will receive its first particles in April
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The Prime Minister of Luxembourg visits CERN
His Excellency Mr Luc Frieden, the Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, visited CERN on 26 February
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CERN-Solvay student camp: meet the next generation of scientists
The latest camp just concluded – 30 high-school students from all over the world came to CERN for a week full of science and fun