At the Large Hadron Collider, particles are accelerated to almost the speed of light before colliding within detectors around the ring to produce even more particles. Researchers use detectors to ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Did you know that more than 589 million people worldwide live with diabetes (IDF, 2024), and that one in nine adults is affected? In Switzerland, almost 500 000 people are affected by this chronic ...

What do rope winding and giant pasta shapes have to do with particle physics? The answer is a new superconducting magnet prototype under development at CERN, lovingly named Fusillo because of its ...

A flagship CERN open science programme – the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP 3) – celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2024. It is a one-of-a-kind ...

A new partnership funded by the Government of Luxembourg, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) and CERN aims to use expertise in AI ...

To learn about this, researchers are going to be looking for Higgs boson interactions with second generation matter particles, the muon and the charm quark, and also looking for extra Higgs-like ...

LEIR takes long pulses of lead ions from Linac 3 and transforms them into the short, dense bunches suitable for injection to the Large Hadron Collider The Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR) receives long ...

Au CERN, des scientifiques du monde entier explorent la structure fondamentale de l'Univers. Ils utilisent de grands instruments complexes pour repousser les limites du savoir humain.

Following the international open call launched in November 2025, Arts at CERN and the Nobel Prize Museum are pleased to announce that Lithuanian artist Emilija Škarnulytė has been selected as the ...