As the year draws to a close, I’d like to wish you and your families a very well deserved end-of-year break

I would like to bring you the main news from the last Council week of 2016, which concluded today.

The International Gender Initiative acknowledges CERN ’s efforts to improve gender equality

How the Theory Department contributes to the evolving research of particle physics and the CERN research programme

The LHC’s success is not alone. Linac 4 and ELENA have also reached important milestones

Our target for the integrated luminosity for 2016 was 25 inverse femtobarns. We reached 40

Large volumes of high-quality data may be a challenge, but addressing it brings innovation

With the winners of the CERN Beamline for Schools 2016 competition on their way home, it is a good time to take a look at the CERN & Society programme

Creation of a Physics Beyond Colliders study group to provide input to the next update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics

Fabiola Gianotti, CERN’s Director-General, shares the news from Council who met this week