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CERN joins the build-up phase of EOSC Federation

The Laboratory is one of 13 organisations selected to contribute to the build-up phase of the European Open Science Cloud Federation

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Computing
24 April, 2025

This Earth Day, CERN underlines its commitments to energy management

CERN is committed to improving its energy performance. Having been one of the first scientific laboratories to obtain ISO 50001 certification for energy management, the Organization has now successfully passed its 2025 surveillance audit

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At CERN
22 April, 2025

Accelerator Report: LHC protons outpacing the Easter tradition

The LHC has restarted and both beams have been circulating in the machine since 8 April, meaning that the start of the LHC beam commissioning during Easter is apparently not a constant of nature

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Accelerators
16 April, 2025

Symmetry between up and down quarks is more broken than expected

Surprising results from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN show that this so-called isospin asymmetry could point to gaps in physicists’ understanding of how quarks and gluons combine

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Physics
28 March, 2025

A journey through CERN’s past in black and white

An exhibition of old black-and-white photos at Geneva’s Bains des Pâquis retraces some of CERN’s history

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At CERN
16 April, 2025

CMS finds unexpected excess of top quarks

Data from the CMS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider reveals an intriguing excess of top-quark pairs, hinting at the first observation of a composite particle with unique properties

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Physics
03 April, 2025

ATLAS gets under the hood of the Higgs mechanism

The detection of longitudinally polarised W boson production at the Large Hadron Collider is an important step towards understanding how the primordial electroweak symmetry broke, giving rise to the masses of elementary particles

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Physics
10 April, 2025

Computer Security: ThisIsAVeryGoodPassword

Let’s give up the complexity rules (letters, symbols, numbers) and go for long passwords, i.e. “passphrases”, instead. Long but easy to remember

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Computing
10 April, 2025
Computing
News
10 April, 2025

CERN announces artist selected for the Resonance residency

Marion Tampon-Lajarriette has been awarded the inaugural residency of Resonance, a programme run by Arts at CERN in partnership with the Republic and Canton of Geneva and the City of Geneva

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At CERN
08 April, 2025

CERN signs a joint Statement of Intent with Canada

The Statement of Intent between CERN and Canada concerns future planning for large research infrastructure facilities, and novel and advanced techniques and tools

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At CERN
09 April, 2025

AEgIS transforms smartphone sensors into an antimatter camera of unprecedented resolution

The AEgIS collaboration, led by a team from the Technical University of Munich, has repurposed smartphone camera sensors to create a detector capable of imaging antiproton annihilations in real time with unprecedented resolution

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Experiments
02 April, 2025

CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider

Released today, a report of a study investigating the project’s feasibility will serve as input for the European Strategy for Particle Physics and be assessed by the CERN Council in the coming months

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Accelerators
31 March, 2025