Read article 'Council looks forward to new members and new physics'
The opening of CERN to new members was top of the agenda when delegates met in December for the 157th session of the CERN Council.
Read article 'CERN Courier has a new look'
Now, for the first time in a decade, its look has changed once again.
Read article 'ATLAS observes striking imbalance of jet energies in heavy ion collisions'
The ATLAS experiment has made the first observation of an unexpectedly large imbalance of energy in pairs of jets created in lead-ion collisions at the LHC.
Read article 'CMS announces first results of search for SUSY'
At the "LHC end-of-year jamboree" at CERN on 17 December, the CMS collaboration announced the first results of its search for supersymmetry (SUSY) at the LHC.
Read article 'Antihydrogen scoops award for breakthroughs'
Both ALPHA and ASACUSA aim to measure precisely the spectrum of antihydrogen and compare it with that of hydrogen. Any small difference would cast light on the imbalance between matter and antimatter ...
Read article 'Italian government approves SuperB'
The SuperB project has been announced as one of the "flagship projects" in Italy.
Read article 'FAIR agreement'
On 18 November 2010, CERN signed an agreement with the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) GmbH, the company that is co-ordinating the construction of the accelerator and experiment facil...
Read article 'Fermi sees giant bubbles in the Milky Way'
The Fermi gamma-ray space telescope has detected high-energy emission from two giant lobes on both sides of the plane of the Galaxy. This unexpected finding suggests that the Milky Way was more active...
Read article 'LHC begins physics with lead ions'
Four days is all that it took for the LHC operations team at CERN to complete the transition from protons to lead ions in the LHC.
Read article 'Raman amplification could boost plasma-based acceleration'
Researchers using the first large-scale particle-in-cell simulations have found that Raman amplification of laser beams in a plasma can produce multi-petawatt peak powers – albeit in a definite para...
