Read article 'The International Year of Light'
To celebrate the IYL 2015, this issue of CERN Courier looks at how brilliant, accelerator-based X-ray free-electron lasers are enabling exciting new studies in biology among other topics.
Read article 'A bright future for HERA physics'
What can the data offer experiments now and in the future?
Read article 'Spin goes Chinese'
A report from the International Symposium on Spin Physics.
Read article 'Pakistan to become associate member state of CERN'
On 19 December, CERN’s director-general, Rolf Heuer, and the chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Ansar Parvez, signed in Islamabad the agreement admitting the Islamic Republic of Pak...
Read article 'CERN-JINR reciprocal observers'
During its December meeting, Council also welcomed the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR, for the first time as an observer to Council, as part of a reciprocal arrangement that also sees CERN...
Read article 'ICTP: theorists in the developing world'
As ICTP reaches its first half-century, the current director talks about the contribution that theorists make to society.
Read article 'CERN: a forward look'
On 1 July, the cycle of events celebrating CERN’s 60th anniversary opened in Paris with an event commemorating the anniversary of the CERN Convention, which was signed at the UNESCO headquarters i...
Read article 'Thoughts on CERN’s future'
On its 60th birthday, CERN should, first of all, be justly praised for its scientific results – results that stem from the organization’s unique model, which has allowed the modernization of frag...
Read article 'Global strategies for particle physics'
The International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) has issued a statement that endorses the strategic plans for the future of high-energy physics in Europe, Asia and the US.
Read article 'CERN and UNESCO celebrate signing the CERN Convention'
Commemorating a major step in the founding of CERN.
