Tag: News

  • Happy hundredth Herwig!

    Happy hundredth Herwig!

    Find out how CERN is celebrating the 100th birthday of former Director-General Herwig Schopper, and how you can be involved

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  • Quadrupoles are red, dipoles are blue…

    Quadrupoles are red, dipoles are blue…

    Attracted to magnets, fond of fermions? CERN community, now’s your chance to write an ode to technology with a CERN Valentine’s poem. Our favourite entry will win a prize

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  • Computer Security: Bull**** Bingo

    Computer Security: Bull**** Bingo

    There are many mantras and claims floating around about cybersecurity. Some of them leave no room for doubt, like “defence in depth”, which suggests deploying protective means at every level of the hardware and software stack, or “KISS ─ keep it simple, stupid” to avoid over-complication and too many deviations from the “standard” cybersecurity system.

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  • Science Gateway welcomes its 100 000th visitor

    Science Gateway welcomes its 100 000th visitor

    Since opening in October, the centre has welcomed an average of 1000 visitors per day

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  • CERN Council reviews progress of feasibility study for a next-generation collider

    CERN Council reviews progress of feasibility study for a next-generation collider

    At its half-way mark, a study investigating the feasibility of a 91-kilometre Future Circular Collider to potentially follow the Large Hadron Collider at CERN shows significant progress

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  • Record participation in the 2024 “Women and Girls in Science and Technology” event!

    Record participation in the 2024 “Women and Girls in Science and Technology” event!

    In the course of a week, more than 5800 local schoolchildren spent time with female science ambassadors

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  • Stories from CERN’s women in science

    Stories from CERN’s women in science

    CERN celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by shedding light on the variety of career paths for women in STEM.

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  • Introducing CERN’s robodog

    Introducing CERN’s robodog

    A four-legged robotic solution has completed its first successful radiation protection test inside CERN’s largest experimental area

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  • HiLumi News: protecting the components of CERN’s future accelerator

    HiLumi News: protecting the components of CERN’s future accelerator

    The collimation system of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which protects the accelerator’s components, needs an upgrade to be able to handle the performance of CERN’s future accelerator

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  • HiLumi News: cool kickers for the HL-LHC

    HiLumi News: cool kickers for the HL-LHC

    Successful tests of the first “MKI-Cool” show that these new kicker magnets can take the heat and keep their cool with high-luminosity beams

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