On 8 May 2025, CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and Irish Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science James Lawless signed an agreement admitting Ireland as an Associate Member State of CERN

User-friendly and interactive with smart recognition features, the new CERNature web application allows you to discover CERN’s rich floral biodiversity while contributing to growing its database

The LHC operations team and many other experts have been working hard to set up and validate the accelerator for safe beam operation, leading to the first stable beams for physics of 2025 on 5 May

Near-miss collisions between high-energy lead nuclei at the LHC generate intense electromagnetic fields that can knock out protons and transform lead into fleeting quantities of gold nuclei

Congratulations to everybody across CERN who was involved in the CERN70 communications campaign, which won the “In-house team of the year” award

It should be common knowledge among software developers that writing software with as few weaknesses, vulnerabilities and flaws as possible is the most cost-efficient solution

Check out this curated list of upcoming events for the CERN community