The Large Hadron Collider gets a breath of fresh air as it collides beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first time. Oxygen–oxygen and neon–neon collisions are also on the menu of the next few days
Venice event brings future of particle physics into focus
Discussions this week at the Open Symposium of the European Strategy for Particle Physics demonstrate strong progress towards ensuring that CERN remains a world leader in collider physics and technology
CERN engineer Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, now an ESA astronaut, has just taken off for the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
AMS upgrade passes qualification tests with flying colours
A new set of “eyes” that will enhance the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer’s sensitivity to cosmic rays is now one step closer to space, thanks to recent progress at CERN
Klystrons are key components in the development of future energy-efficient colliders. The latest edition of the CERN Courier magazine explores their recent developments.