CERN Accelerating science

The first beams are already circulating in the Linac4 and PS Booster and should reach the LHC on 11 March. A new physics run is about to begin!

Find out how CERN is celebrating the 100th birthday of former Director-General Herwig Schopper, and how you can be involved

In the course of a week, more than 5800 local schoolchildren spent time with female science ambassadors

Since opening in October, the centre has welcomed an average of 1000 visitors per day

CERN celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by shedding light on the variety of career paths for women in STEM.

Attracted to magnets, fond of fermions? CERN community, now’s your chance to write an ode to technology with a CERN Valentine’s poem. Our favourite entry will win a prize

A four-legged robotic solution has completed its first successful radiation protection test inside CERN’s largest experimental area

The latest release makes LHCb research data, used by researchers to produce a number of significant results, available to anyone for a wide range of physics studies

Over the last ten years, CERN-born Zenodo has evolved to store ever more scientific data. Today, a new project is set to ensure Zenodo’s position as a prime repository for EU research data

Successful tests of the first “MKI-Cool” show that these new kicker magnets can take the heat and keep their cool with high-luminosity beams

The whopping number of collisions recorded by ALICE during the recent five-week heavy-ion run of the LHC is 40 times greater than the total recorded by the experiment in its previous periods of heavy-ion data taking, from 2010 to 2018