Soon, CERN personnel will take a well-deserved winter break, just like the accelerator complex. Following a successful year, the remainder of the accelerator complex was stopped on 2 December, marking the official start of the year-end technical stop

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

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

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

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

Find out how, ten years on from its inception, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) now plans a greater global adoption of open science

Using data from Run 2 of the LHC, the experiment has combined a comprehensive set of searches for di-Higgs production, a phenomenon that could provide physicists with clues to the stability of the Universe

The finding also represents the first evidence of the heaviest antimatter hypernucleus yet at the LHC

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

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