Dilia Maria Portillo Quintero presents the particle collisions forecast… (Video: CERN) When you want to capture an important moment in your life, you often take a photo. You could write down the key ...

British experimental particle physicist Mark Thomson is CERN’s Director-General from 2026 to 2030. In the video interview below, he answers questions about where particle physics stands today, his ...

In September 2022, CERN approved a new policy for open science at the Organization, with immediate effect. The policy aims to make all CERN research fully accessible, inclusive, democratic and ...

CERN has revised its schedule for its accelerator complex. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is currently in its third period of physics data taking (Run 3), and this will now be extended until July ...

You may have seen recent news about a hantavirus outbreak linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius. As of 12 May 2026, 11 cases (nine confirmed, two probable) have been reported, including three deaths.

The year-end technical stop (YETS) activities in the accelerator complex’s first machines are nearing completion, but in the LHC about six weeks of work still lie ahead of us before the machine is ...

Join CERN on Friday, 4 April to celebrate the achievements and long career of Ugo Amaldi as he turns 90. Hear all about his outstanding contributions to physics and society on Friday, 4 April, from 2 ...

The CMS collaboration at CERN has observed an unexpected feature in data produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which could point to the existence of the smallest composite particle yet observed ...

CERN released its second public Environment Report today. The report covers the years 2019-2020 when the accelerator complex was in its second long shutdown. The Organization took the opportunity of ...

They won’t pinch you and you won’t find them on the beach. The name of the new radio-frequency crab cavities has nothing to do with their appearance and is merely illustrative of the effect they will ...

CERN was conceived in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when two ambitions came together – to enable construction of scientific facilities that were beyond the means of individual countries, and to ...

Watch students and teachers from two schools in central Poland searching proton collisions from the LHC for signs of new particles Poland joined CERN as a Member State in 1991. Polish ...