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Florent has been brightening up our days at CERN with his good humour since 1990. On 30 April he’ll be leaving Restaurant 1 for a well-deserved retirement

A vertical accelerator would test a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics with unprecedented precision

The properties are unexpectedly different from those of other heavy primary cosmic rays

Two and a quarter years after it was delivered to the LS2 intervention teams, the key to the LHC is back in the hands of the Operations group

FASER, the Forward Search Experiment, has been installed in the LHC tunnel during Long Shutdown 2. It is currently being tested and will start taking data next year

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) between CERN and Fermilab, signed on 23 March, details Fermilab’s contributions to the High-Luminosity LHC project

As the very last line of defence, CERN employs automatic monitoring tools that will send a short notification for every login from a “new” location to the email address you have registered with CERN

In new results, ATLAS physicists describe novel techniques used to accurately align the muon spectrometer

CERN openlab held its annual technical workshop on 9-11 March. Due to the pandemic, the 200 participants joined the workshop this year via Zoom

The LHCb results strengthen hints of a violation of lepton flavour universality

On 28 January, CERN teamed up with fellow EIROforum organisations ESA and ESO to deliver an eye-opening online event to mark Data Protection Day

First selected project could save lives by providing earlier earthquake alerts