Read article 'The usefulness of ‘useless’ knowledge'
It is practically impossible to find a piece of technology that cannot be traced back to the work of scientists motivated purely by a desire to understand the world.
Read article 'Beamline competition calls all schools'
CERN has announced the 4th edition of its Beamline for Schools Competition.
Read article 'Open access ebooks'
Open access publishing is proving to be a very successful publishing model in the scholarly scientific field: today, more than 10,000 journals are accessible in OA, according to the Directory of Open ...
Read article 'The CERN effect'
"Scientific culture and societal impacts advancing hand-in-hand through cutting-edge research: it is this that makes CERN worthy of the support it receives from governments worldwide."
Read article 'Helping CERN to benefit society'
I first came to CERN as a student in the mid 1980s, and spent an entrancing summer learning the extent of my lack of knowledge in the field of physics (considerable!) and meeting fellow students from ...
Read article 'International Masterclasses in the LHC era'
Now in its 10th year, the initiative reaches more than 40 countries.
Read article 'SCOAP3 open-access initiative gets going'
Eleven publishers of high-quality international journals are participating in this initiative.
Read article 'How the Particle Physics Masterclasses began'
A look back to the origins of the masterclasses in 1996.
Read article 'CERN School of Computing: 10 years of renewal'
How the CSC has been reinvigorated during the past decade.
Read article 'Our universe was yours'
CERN opened its doors at the end of September to more than 70,000 visitors.
