Tag: Students

  • Celebrating Women in Science Day 2026 at CERN

    Celebrating Women in Science Day 2026 at CERN

    CERN features six scientists for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

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  • 2025 Beamline for Schools winners at CERN, DESY and the University of Bonn

    2025 Beamline for Schools winners at CERN, DESY and the University of Bonn

    The three laboratories welcomed the winners of the 2025 Beamline for Schools competition from 10 to 24 September

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  • CERN launches Generation Higgs, its new cultural season, with Cédric Klapisch on 25 September

    CERN launches Generation Higgs, its new cultural season, with Cédric Klapisch on 25 September

    With Generation Higgs, CERN honours the young minds already shaping today’s scientific landscape

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  • A quantum leap for antimatter measurements

    A quantum leap for antimatter measurements

    Demonstration of first antimatter quantum bit paves the way for substantially improved tests of nature’s fundamental symmetries

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  • ATLAS closes in on rare Higgs decays

    ATLAS closes in on rare Higgs decays

    The ATLAS collaboration finds evidence of Higgs-boson decays to muons and improves sensitivity to Higgs-boson decays to a Z boson and a photon.

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  • Students from Belgium, Canada, Mexico, Türkiye and the USA win the 12th edition of Beamline for Schools

    Students from Belgium, Canada, Mexico, Türkiye and the USA win the 12th edition of Beamline for Schools

    Five teams of secondary school pupils have been selected to carry out their own experiments using accelerator beams at CERN, DESY and the University of Bonn

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  • Elusive romance of top-quark pairs observed at the LHC 

    Elusive romance of top-quark pairs observed at the LHC 

    The CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have observed an unforeseen feature in the behaviour of top quarks that suggests that these heaviest of all elementary particles form a fleeting union

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  • How imagining life on exoplanets sparks real-world solutions

    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

    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

    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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