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AMS’s second new life
After more than a decade in space, the AMS detector on the ISS is due for another upgrade. With its augmented potential for discovery, it will be able to investigate dark-matter-like signatures from cosmic rays
CERN to change name for 70th Anniversary
The Organization’s new name, Network of Experiments for Research and Development in Society, encapsulates the true nature of the Laboratory in 2024
Accelerator Report: Protons or Easter eggs? Let’s hope for both
Beam commissioning is progressing well across the entire accelerator complex, but challenges have arisen, in particular in Linac4, highlighting the complexities involved
Spring at CERN, your photos
Thank you for sending in your beautiful spring photos, see them all here alongside the winning photo of our competition
World Wide Web at 35
From Tim Berners-Lee’s first proposal in March 1989 to today, the World Wide Web’s impact on society has been profound
CERN and STFC support environmentally sustainable physics
CERN and the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) sign a new agreement to support the development of more sustainable particle accelerators
The delicate balance of lepton flavours
New ATLAS measurement of lepton flavour universality, a key feature of the Standard Model, in decays of the W boson is more precise than all previous measurements combined
Computer Security: Day of the open firewall
With ongoing vulnerability scans of CERN’s internet presence, the Computer Security team’s plans to perform penetration testing against selected targets visible to the internet
First observation of photons-to-taus in proton–proton collisions by CMS
Using the outstanding tracking capabilities of the CMS detector, the collaboration observed two photons producing two tau-leptons in proton–proton collisions
Brazil becomes Associate Member State of CERN
Brazil has become the first Associate Member State of CERN in the Americas