Intensity is rising in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC): last week, the accelerator propelled particle bunches containing more than 230 billion protons (2.3 x 1011): 40% more than standard bunches. As ...

CERN extends its congratulations to the eight apprentices who have received their certificat fédéral de capacité (CFC diploma ...

Feasibility Study, Lake Geneva underwater investigations have now begun. Taking place in 2025 and 2026, these explorations are using two techniques: seismic waves to analyse the geological layers ...

The electronic voting process for the Senior Staff Consultative Committee (known as “the Nine”) closed at midnight on Sunday, ...

Kamran Naim, Head of Open Science at CERN, welcomes attendees to the Open Science Fair (OSFair 2025), hosted by the CERN Open Science Office and OpenAIRE from 15 to 17 September. 353 participants from ...

The meeting of the High-Luminosity LHC collaboration at the beginning of October saw the baton passed to a new project leader. Oliver Brüning, who has led the HL-LHC project since 2020, will become ...

The CERN CampusApp has been providing essential information to the community since 2023, including emergency alerts for safety and security, the CERN phonebook, map, menus and more. The Site and Civil ...

On 14 CERN unveiled the Nobel medal of Felix Bloch, generously donated by Bloch’s family on the 120th anniversary of the physicist’s birth. Now part of the CERN archives, this medal will be on ...

In the ancient past (20 years ago), control systems used to be stand-alone systems, usually decoupled from the larger enterprise networks, using their own network cabling infrastructures (based on a ...

There is no cost to attend the sessions, and members of the local community can come any time between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. CERN community and FCC local activities Would you like to find out more, to be ...

As manufacturing of the components for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) reaches its final stages, installation activities are gaining pace. Six impressive compression units have just been delivered by ...

In the morning of 6 October, just a few hours before the start of the four-day machine development (MD) block, the LHC beams were dumped after a minor instability in the cryogenic system at Point 2.