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European project to make web search more open and ethical

The OpenWebSearch.eu consortium, which includes CERN, has released a pilot of the first federated, pan-European Open Web Index, paving the way for a new generation of unbiased and ethical search engines

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Computing
06 June, 2025

AI enhances Higgs boson’s charm

The CMS collaboration presents a new search for the decay of a Higgs boson into charm quarks, bringing physicists closer to unravelling how this unique particle endows matter with mass

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Physics
19 May, 2025
Physics
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19 May, 2025

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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Physics
08 May, 2025

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

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Physics
10 April, 2025

CERN signs a joint Statement of Intent with Canada

The Statement of Intent between CERN and Canada concerns future planning for large research infrastructure facilities, and novel and advanced techniques and tools

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At CERN
09 April, 2025

CERN announces artist selected for the Resonance residency

Marion Tampon-Lajarriette has been awarded the inaugural residency of Resonance, a programme run by Arts at CERN in partnership with the Republic and Canton of Geneva and the City of Geneva

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At CERN
08 April, 2025

CMS finds unexpected excess of top quarks

Data from the CMS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider reveals an intriguing excess of top-quark pairs, hinting at the first observation of a composite particle with unique properties

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Physics
03 April, 2025

AEgIS transforms smartphone sensors into an antimatter camera of unprecedented resolution

The AEgIS collaboration, led by a team from the Technical University of Munich, has repurposed smartphone camera sensors to create a detector capable of imaging antiproton annihilations in real time with unprecedented resolution

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Experiments
02 April, 2025

CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider

Released today, a report of a study investigating the project’s feasibility will serve as input for the European Strategy for Particle Physics and be assessed by the CERN Council in the coming months

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Accelerators
31 March, 2025

Symmetry between up and down quarks is more broken than expected

Surprising results from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN show that this so-called isospin asymmetry could point to gaps in physicists’ understanding of how quarks and gluons combine

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Physics
28 March, 2025