CERN Accelerating science

Running your own computing hardware, installation stack, (web) applications, databases, etc., is just not cost effective and usually you won’t be able to commit the required attention to keeping those systems sufficiently secure

A CERN team was victorious at the Harmony Geneva Marathon for UNICEF winning the Challenge Entreprise with an average time of less than 3 hours for each runner!

For the tenth year running, CERN took part in Ethnopoly, a life-size scavenger hunt that invites primary school pupils to discover Meyrin’s wealth of cultural diversity

The Nobel laureate, who coined the name “quarks”, passed away on 24 May

Work has begun to improve the electrical insulation of the diodes of the 1232 dipole magnets in the LHC

Celebrate the anniversary at CERN’s Restaurant 1 from 3 to 7 June

In accordance with the Status Agreements with CERN, Switzerland and France facilitate the entry of members of the Organization’s personnel on to their territories

The CMS collaboration has searched for collision events in which the Higgs boson transforms into a photon and a hypothetical dark photon

In autumn 2018 and spring 2019, new data-centre modules were installed and commissioned at the ALICE and LHCb sites (points 2 and 8 of the LHC)