CERN Accelerating science

Recent events in Brussels highlighted the potential of CERN and the FCC to support new innovations and strengthen Europe’s global competitiveness

Looking back 70 years: what did Council write to the CERN community for “CERN’s first Christmas”?

The installation of the High-Luminosity LHC test facility continues with the arrival of two magnet assemblies

Submit your answers by 6 January and you could win an LHC Lego set, two Balexert cinema tickets or limited edition CERN70 merchandise

CERN must be protected against any kind of successful large-scale attack, while maintaining a balance between security, academic freedom and the use of accelerators and experiments

The LHC was scheduled to conclude its outstanding 2024 run on 25 November, but a massive magnet quench brought it to an end two days early

Projects can now begin so that 140 GWh/year – about 10% of CERN’s annual electricity consumption during accelerator operation years – will be provided by renewable sources from 2027

The first Resonance call for applications aims to attract artists who are based in Geneva and working at the intersection between art and science

Looking for gift ideas? Look no further. Here are 15 locations at CERN where the CERN community can find the perfect present

The result opens a new window into the study of the quark–gluon plasma that is believed to have filled the Universe briefly after the Big Bang

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