The CMS collaboration has measured the speed of sound in the quark–gluon plasma more precisely than ever before, offering new insights into this extremely hot state of matter

The first beams are already circulating in the Linac4 and PS Booster and should reach the LHC on 11 March. A new physics run is about to begin!

Find out how CERN is celebrating the 100th birthday of former Director-General Herwig Schopper, and how you can be involved

Attracted to magnets, fond of fermions? CERN community, now’s your chance to write an ode to technology with a CERN Valentine’s poem. Our favourite entry will win a prize

Giuseppe Fidecaro was among the small group of physicists who performed the first experiment at CERN to provide results in 1958 that would spread the Laboratory’s name around the world

Since opening in October, the centre has welcomed an average of 1000 visitors per day