CERN Accelerating science

The two barrels of the largest pixel detector ever built have been successfully lowered into the cavern and stand ready for commissioning

Both the CMS and ATLAS experiments have performed luminosity measurements with spectacular precision

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental disorders affect one in four people in the world

Pascale Goy replaces Matteo Castoldi as head of the CERN & Society Foundation

Are all LHC magnets blue? Who decides the colour of a magnet and on what basis? What does the small purple one do? See our answers below

780 budding scientists from schools in the local French and Geneva area set out to identify the content of mysterious boxes

Ransomware attacks against enterprises and academia are not a new phenomenon...

Some members of the HEP community have organised a fundraising initiative to purchase ventilators, oxygen concentrators, PPE and other medical supplies that are running critically low in India

The CMS collaboration just reached another LS2 milestone: the biggest upgrade of the experimental beam vacuum system since the first operation of CMS in 2008

The first edition of the EuCAPT annual symposium on 5-7 May saw hundreds of physicists discuss the latest opportunities and challenges in theoretical astroparticle physics and cosmology

On 13 April 2021, the recipients of this year's ATLAS PhD Grant were celebrated in an online ceremony

The first pieces of LHCb’s new scintillating-fibre particle-tracking detector, or SciFi, have just journeyed 100 metres down to be installed in the experiment’s underground cavern