Beamline for Schools receives a record number of submissions
Beamline for Schools (BL4S), the education and outreach project aimed at high-school students, received 712 proposals for its 2026 edition. The BL4S team is looking for volunteers from the CERN community to join them!
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
Students step up to the I.FAST innovation challenge
International participants of the fourth I.FAST Challenge Based Innovation event were praised for their innovative proposals to find novel medical solutions using particle accelerator technology
CERN technology showcased in the context of UN Plastic Treaty discussions
AI data analysis techniques developed at CERN were showcased during a side event of INC-5.2 – the United Nations intergovernmental negotiating committee meeting in Geneva to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution
As ESA celebrates its 50th anniversary, discover seven ways Europe’s space agency and CERN have been working together to further fundamental exploration and innovation in space technologies
The LHC experiment collaborations at CERN receive Breakthrough Prize
The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb collaborations during a ceremony held in Los Angeles on 5 April