The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne for the detection of gravitational waves

On 1 October 1992, the newly formed ATLAS and CMS collaborations both submitted letters of intent for the construction of their detectors

Tonight, CERN will be open to the general public to celebrate science

CMS experiment delves into the mystery of neutrino masses

On the occasion of the EUCAS 2017 conference, superconducting magnets and cavities were turned into musical instruments

High-temperature superconductors have the potential to revolutionise the field of particle physics

CERN openlab has published a white paper identifying the major ICT challenges that face CERN and other ‘big science’ projects in the coming years

Intensity tests have been successfully completed on the FRESCA2 magnet. It will serve as a test bench for the development of more powerful magnets

The third article in our series on superconductors takes us to the heart of the detectors and their extraordinary and powerful magnets

The use of superconducting material has enabled the development of more powerful accelerating cavities