Tag: Media
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CERN’s CLOUD experiment shines new light on climate change
Geneva, 6 October 2013. In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the CLOUD experiment at CERN1 reports a major advance towards solving a long-standing enigma in climate science: how do aerosols – tiny solid or liquid particles suspended in the air – form in the atmosphere, and which gases are responsible? This is
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CERN welcomes its first film maker in residence
Geneva, 4 October 2013. Seeing the invisible and discovering the meaning of life are the twin quests of CERN1’s first film maker in residence, Jan Peters the second winner of the Collide @ CERN Geneva2 prize, which is supported by the Canton and City of Geneva. Jan Peters is internationally known as a film maker
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Ukraine to become Associate Member State of CERN
Geneva 3 October 2013. CERN1 Director General Rolf Heuer and Mr. Kostyantyn Ivanovych Gryschenko, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine today signed a document admitting Ukraine to CERN Associate Membership, subject to ratification by Ukraine’s Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada. “Ukraine has been a strong participant in LHC experiments and computing over recent years,” said CERN Director
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Major European scientific organisations to take part in European Researchers’ Nights
Geneva, 18 September – CERN, ESA, ESO and UNESCO, in partnership with the Italian Institute of Astrophysics (INAF), invite the public to participate in “Origins 2013”, an exceptional event to take place simultaneously in Geneva, Paris and Bologna on European researchers’ night, Friday 27 September. People from around the world can follow the event live
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CERN Open Days: bookings to visit the underground facilities are now being taken
Geneva, 15 August 2013. From today, CERN1 will be taking bookings for visits of its underground facilities during the Open Days. From 9am to 8pm on 28 and 29 September, members of the public will have a rare opportunity to visit one of CERN’s underground sites. Two points of the Large Hadron Collider, CERN’s flagship
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CERN experiments put Standard Model to stringent test
Geneva, 19 July 2013. New results to be presented at the EPS-HEP conference in Stockholm, Sweden, this afternoon have put the Standard Model of particle physics to one of its most stringent tests to date. The CMS and LHCb experiments at CERN’s1 Large Hadron Collider will present measurements of one of the rarest measureable processes
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CERN experiments to present latest results at summer conferences
Geneva, 17 July 2013. Scientists working on CERN1 experiments are preparing to present their latest results at summer conferences. This year, two major conferences are coming up over the next couple of weeks: the European Physical Society’s High Energy Physics conference, EPS-HEP 2013, which is being held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 18-24 July, and Strangeness
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CERN and EUROVISION unite to attract “tweens” to science
Geneva, 11 July 2013. CERN1 and EUROVISION2 are awarding grants to two production companies to develop multiplatform media proposals to spark the scientific curiosity of “tweens” – children aged eight to twelve. “Children are the most remarkable example of curiosity,” said Sergio Bertolucci, CERN’s Director of Research and Computing. “We should not limit this curiosity,
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Collide @ CERN laureate, Bill Fontana, begins residency at CERN
Geneva, 26 June 2013. The second winner of Prix Ars Electronica Collide @ CERN1, American sound sculptor, Bill Fontana2, begins his arts residency at CERN3 on 4 July 2013. Matching a great artist with a great scientist, Bill Fontana will start working with theorist Subodh Patil, his science inspiration partner during his time at CERN.
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CERN’s ISOLTRAP reveals new magic in the atomic nucleus
Geneva, 19 June 2013. The ISOLTRAP collaboration1 has measured the mass of exotic calcium nuclei using a new instrument installed at the ISOLDE facility at CERN2. The measurements, published on 20 June in the journal Nature, clearly establish a new “magic number” related to the stability of this exotic species. The results cast light on