News Archives – CERN Courier

Chen-Ning Yang, a towering figure in science who shaped contemporary theoretical physics, passed away on 18 October 2025.

The European Strategy Group has recommended FCC-ee as the preferred option for the next flagship collider at CERN.

Results from KATRIN and MicroBooNE strongly disfavour a light sterile-neutrino explanation of longstanding anomalies.

Private donors have pledged funds towards the construction of the Future Circular Collider.

JWST observations may suggest the existence of extremely massive stars in the early universe.

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observed a gamma-ray burst of a record seven hours in duration.

George Smoot, who led the team that first measured tiny fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background, passed away on 18 September 2025.

A trigger-level analysis by the ATLAS collaboration achieved record sensitivity to low-mass particles decaying into quarks or gluons.

Experiments at CERN’s SPS suggest that metal-rich asteroids are more resistant than previously assumed.

Rohini Madhusudan Godbole, one of India’s most influential particle physicists, passed away on 25 October 2024.

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