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Heating homes with the world’s largest particle accelerator
Now operational, a new heat exchange system is reusing hot water from part of the Large Hadron Collider’s cooling system to heat homes and businesses in the local area
Presidential visits to CERN
The President of Lithuania and the President of Armenia visited CERN on 19 January
Computer Security: A final dash to protect your account
We already discussed mandatory requirements for IT service managers in a past issue of the Bulletin. This time we present upcoming changes to passwords and improvements to two-factor authentication
European labs get aligned at CERN
Eleven laboratories have all come to CERN to measure a girder, using their state-of-the-art equipment to establish a common definition of alignment uncertainty
Probing asteroids with particle beams
CERN’s HiRadMat facility is helping scientists to understand how asteroid materials behave under extreme conditions
Accelerator Report: A very busy technical stop ahead of Long Shutdown 3
This technical stop is particularly intense, being both shorter than usual, to maximise the limited time for physics, and very busy, to make essential preparations for LS3, which begins in June
Help shape how CERN improves
New year, new ways of working. Here’s your chance to suggest which processes could be improved at CERN
Computer Security: A final marathon for service managers
The past two years have brought a lot of new computer-security deployments at CERN: 2-factor authentication, new spam filtering, email quarantining, anti-spoofing protection, 2FA protection for LXPLUS and the CERN Windows Terminal Servers, among others
Advancing cancer therapy with next-gen radionuclides
The PRISMAP programme, coordinated by CERN, has supplied 159 radionuclide batches for cancer research over the past five years
ALICE welcomes its new management
From 1 January 2026 onward, Kai Schweda has assumed the role of ALICE spokesperson, alongside Andrea Dainese and Anthony Robert Timmins, new deputy spokespersons of the collaboration