Tag: CERN community
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Diabetes awareness campaign
Did you know that more than 589 million people worldwide live with diabetes (IDF, 2024), and that one in nine adults is affected? In Switzerland, almost 500 000 people are affected by this chronic disease (Diabetes Switzerland, FOPH, 2024–2025). Yet type 2 diabetes, which accounts for 90% of cases, can be avoided or delayed by following
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Register as a guide for the 2026 Museum Night!
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First timber beam installed for CERN’s new Building 777
On Friday, 14 April 2026, CERN celebrated an important milestone in the construction of the future Building 777 on the Prévessin site: instead of laying the traditional foundation stone, the project started with the installation of its very first timber beam (or “la première poutre”), a reflection of the building’s sustainable design. Mar Capeáns, CERN’s
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Computer Security: Tigers and cats against crawling mAIce
IT has for some time been transitioning into a new era where artificial intelligence (AI) takes over more and more tasks and, eventually, responsibility. There are few of us left who don’t use the plethora of ChatGPT, Mistral, Claude and the like. Performance gain and increased efficiency are announced to be everywhere and might lead
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Smarter decisions at the speed of physics
Smart and fast decision making is key when dealing with the onslaught of collisions at the LHC. At the High-Luminosity LHC (HiLumi LHC), the ATLAS and CMS experiments are expected to process detector data at rates corresponding to roughly a quarter of the 2025 global internet traffic. All in real time, as part of the
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Cycle to CERN
Bike to Work is back at CERN, encouraging everyone to leave their car behind and enjoy the benefits of active travel. Choose a healthier and more environmentally friendly way to commute during May and June, or continue biking if you are already regularly in the saddle. To take part, form a team of four colleagues –
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HiLumi LHC: CERN’s full-scale test stand enters the powering phase
With the start of electrical powering, the Inner Triplet String is now entering a new phase of commissioning. This phase will be carried out progressively and will culminate in the powering of the whole installation this summer
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CERN’s Medipix3 technology on track to help more patients
A portable photon-counting CT scanner developed using CERN’s Medipix3 technology receives FDA clearance, paving the way for broader clinical adoption
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ATLAS sets record limits on Higgs boson’s self-interaction
The result is based on over 300 inverse femtobarns of proton–proton collision data, which is equivalent to 30 000 trillion collisions
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ATLAS acts as a cosmic-ray laboratory
The ATLAS Collaboration reports its first measurement of proton–oxygen collisions at the LHC, which recreate cosmic-ray interactions with Earth’s atmosphere