Category: At CERN
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Celebrating 50 years of the CERN relay race – and details of this year’s event!
As this year’s edition of the legendary race approaches, the time has come to look back on 50 years of exuberance, silly costumes, beer drinking and the occasional bit of running
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Yolande Agnosini (1933 – 2023)
Yolande Agnosini(1933 – 2023) — Yolande Beatrix Agnosini, née Soriano, passed away on Saturday, 8 April at the age of 89. She is now reunited with her husband, Fausto Agnosini, who also worked at CERN. Yolande spent her entire career at CERN. Following a stint at the computer card punching service, she followed a course
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Happy birthday to the Passport to the Big Bang
The Passport to the Big Bang discovery trail is celebrating its tenth anniversary – ten years during which local people have been able to find out about science and technology while cycling around the France-Geneva countryside.
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25-hour days, runaway Higgs boson… Were you fooled?
On 1 April, CERN announced that a new measurement of the second, achieved with a caesium fountain clock, indicated that days were bound to get one hour longer, while the ATLAS and CMS collaborations breathed a sigh of relief after recovering the Higgs boson, which had mysteriously disappeared. With April Fools’ Day now behind us,
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Contributing to the emergency response in Türkiye in the aftermath of the earthquake
Marc Nas, Operations Officer and Deputy Group Leader of the CERN Fire and Rescue Service, describes his mission to support the international effort
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Time to change: CERN scientists propose 25-hour day
Scientists at the BETA experiment, in CERN’s Antimatter Factory, have made the most precise measurement of the second yet, which could result in the day lasting an hour longer
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Arts at CERN and Copenhagen Contemporary to collaborate through Collide International award
Arts at CERN and Copenhagen Contemporary join forces and announce the first open call for Collide Copenhagen
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Beware the deaf threat: noise awareness campaign
What do traffic, data centres, cooling towers, construction work, electric transformers and LHC compressors have in common? They all make for a noisy working environment
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First-stone ceremony of the CERN Library renovation
Members of the Scientific Information Policy Board, the library renovation project team and current and former SIS colleagues joined the ceremony at the construction site
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Discover the new LHCb exhibition
CERN’s Exhibitions section and LHCb have teamed up to overhaul the experiment’s public exhibition, which is now open to visitors – don’t miss it!