Tag: Media
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CERN experiment produces first beam of antihydrogen atoms for hyperfine study
Geneva, 21 January 2014. The ASACUSA1 experiment at CERN2 has succeeded for the first time in producing a beam of antihydrogen atoms. In a paper published today in Nature Communications, the ASACUSA collaboration reports the unambiguous detection of 80 antihydrogen atoms 2.7 metres downstream of their production, where the perturbing influence of the magnetic fields
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CERN to admit Israel as first new Member State since 1999
Following a resolution unanimously adopted at today’s 169th session of the CERN Council, CERN is set to admit Israel as the Organization’s 21st Member State.
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Japanese artist, Ryoji Ikeda, wins the third Prix Ars Electronica Collide @ CERN
Linz/Geneva, 14 January 2014. CERN1 data analysis will be the inspiration for the third Prix Ars Electronica2 Collide @ CERN, which was today awarded to the Japanese artist, Ryoji Ikeda3, who lives and works in Paris. Ryoji Ikeda is one of the world’s leading artists who create moving-image, sculptural, sound and new media works that
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Open Access publishing initiative, SCOAP3, to start on 1 January 2014
Geneva 5 December 2013. After intense preparations and consensus building, CERN1 has today confirmed that the SCOAP3 Open Access publishing initiative will start on 1 January 2014. With the support of partners in 24 countries2, a vast fraction of scientific articles in the field of High-Energy Physics will become Open Access at no cost for
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The Music of Physics – Third open competition, Collide@CERN Geneva 2014 award announced
Geneva, 26 November 2013. CERN1, the City and The Republic and Canton of Geneva announce today the 2014 open competition for the Collide @ CERN Geneva artist in residency award2. The form of art for 2014 will be music, which has a special affinity with physics. “Many physicists at CERN are also musicians, because patterns
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3D-printing company joins CERN innovation centre
A company that uses a 3D-printing technique to craft metal filters is the first to join the STFC CERN Business Incubation Centre in the UK
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CERN receives the Prince of Asturias Award
Geneva, 25 October 2013. CERN1, along with Peter Higgs and François Englert, will today receive the Prince of Asturias Award for “the theoretical prediction and experimental detection of the Higgs boson.” CERN Director General Rolf Heuer will accept the prestigious prize on behalf of the Laboratory during a ceremony at Oviedo’s Campoamor Theatre in Spain.
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CERN announces the Accelerate@CERN programme
Geneva, 22 October 2013. CERN is launching Accelerate @ CERN, its new country specific one month research award for artists who have never had a longer stay at a science laboratory before. It is the sister strand of CERN1‘s successful flagship artists residency programme, Collide @ CERN2. Both are part of Arts @ CERN, which
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CERN to host international conference on thorium technologies for energy
Geneva, 17 October 2013. CERN1 is to host the Thorium Energy Conference ThEC13 on 27-31 October, 2013. The Conference will address the scientific and technical advances offered by thorium in alternative nuclear technologies for energy production and for the destruction of nuclear waste. ThEC13 is organized by iThEC2 (international Thorium Energy Committee, Geneva) and IThEO3
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CERN congratulates François Englert and Peter W. Higgs on the award of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics
Geneva 8 October 2013. CERN1 congratulates François Englert and Peter W. Higgs on the award of the Nobel Prize in physics “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by