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Updated statement: CERN stands for diversity

From 26 to 28 September, CERN hosted the first workshop on High Energy Theory and Gender focusing on recent developments in theoretical high-energy physics and cosmology, and discussed issues of gender and equal opportunities in the field.

Press release
At CERN
30 September, 2018
At CERN
Press release
30 September, 2018

Dr Ursula Bassler elected as next President of the CERN Council

The CERN Council today announced the election of Dr Ursula Bassler as its 23rd President, for a period of one year renewable twice, with a mandate starting on 1 January 2019.

Press release
At CERN
28 September, 2018
At CERN
Press release
28 September, 2018

Esplanade des Particules: CERN’s new official address

CERN, the État de Genève and the Commune de Meyrin today inaugurated the brand-new Esplanade des Particules, an open space firmly focused on welcoming visitors and the general public.

Press release
At CERN
28 September, 2018
At CERN
Press release
28 September, 2018

Filipino and Indian students win CERN Beamline for Schools competition 2018

The Beamline for Schools contest is open to high-school students from around the world who want to experience the life of a scientist

Press release
At CERN
20 June, 2018
At CERN
Press release
20 June, 2018

The Higgs boson reveals its affinity for the top quark

New results from the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC reveal how strongly the Higgs boson interacts with the heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark, corroborating our understanding of the Higgs and setting constraints on new physics.

Press release
At CERN
04 June, 2018
At CERN
Press release
04 June, 2018

OPERA collaboration presents its final results on neutrino oscillations. All data publicly available on the CERN Open Data Portal

The OPERA collaboration reports the observation of a total of 10 candidate events for a muon to tau-neutrino conversion, in what are the very final results of the experiment.

Press release
At CERN
22 May, 2018
At CERN
Press release
22 May, 2018

New CERN facility can help medical research into cancer

Today, the new CERN-MEDICIS facility has produced radioisotopes for medical research for the first time. MEDICIS (Medical Isotopes Collected from ISOLDE) aims to provide a wide range of radioisotopes, some of which can be produced only at CERN.

Press release
At CERN
12 December, 2017
At CERN
Press release
12 December, 2017

First light for pioneering SESAME light source

At 10:50 yesterday morning, scientists at the pioneering SESAME light source saw First Monochromatic Light through the XAFS/XRF spectroscopy beamline, signalling the start of the laboratory’s experimental programme.

Press release
At CERN
23 November, 2017
At CERN
Press release
23 November, 2017

The BASE experiment breaks its own precision measurement record of antiproton’s magnetic moment

The BASE collaboration publishes today in Nature a new measurement of the magnetic moment of the antiproton, with a precision exceeding that of the proton.

Press release
At CERN
18 October, 2017
At CERN
Press release
18 October, 2017

The LHCb experiment is charmed to announce observation of a new particle with two heavy quarks

Geneva, 6 July 2017. Today at the EPS Conference on High Energy Physics in Venice, the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has reported the observation of Ξcc++ (Xicc++) a new particle containing two charm quarks and one up quark.

Press release
At CERN
06 July, 2017
At CERN
Press release
06 July, 2017