Tag: General public
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Chile to become an Associate Member State of CERN
On 16 May 2025, CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and Minister of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation of Chile, Aisén Etcheverry signed an agreement admitting Chile as an Associate Member State of CERN
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How imagining life on exoplanets sparks real-world solutions
The IdeaSquare Planet programme inspires students to tackle global challenges through creativity and collaboration
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Ireland to become an Associate Member State of CERN
On 8 May 2025, CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and Irish Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science James Lawless signed an agreement admitting Ireland as an Associate Member State of CERN
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ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
Near-miss collisions between high-energy lead nuclei at the LHC generate intense electromagnetic fields that can knock out protons and transform lead into fleeting quantities of gold nuclei
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And they’re off! The 2025 LHC physics season gets underway
“Stable” particle beams are back in the LHC machine, marking the start of the 2025 physics data-taking campaign
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Top marks for CERN in 2025 European Physical Society awards
The CERN-led educational programme Beamline for Schools is among the recipients of the 2025 awards of the European Physical Society’s High Energy and Particle Physics Division
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CERN joins the build-up phase of EOSC Federation
The Laboratory is one of 13 organisations selected to contribute to the build-up phase of the European Open Science Cloud Federation
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This Earth Day, CERN underlines its commitments to energy management
CERN is committed to improving its energy performance. Having been one of the first scientific laboratories to obtain ISO 50001 certification for energy management, the Organization has now successfully passed its 2025 surveillance audit
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European Strategy for Particle Physics: community input received
Substantial contributions to the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics set the stage for discussions that will define the next flagship collider at CERN
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ATLAS gets under the hood of the Higgs mechanism
The detection of longitudinally polarised W boson production at the Large Hadron Collider is an important step towards understanding how the primordial electroweak symmetry broke, giving rise to the masses of elementary particles