

Europe’s foremost particle-physics laboratory, CERN was established near Geneva in 1954 to stop the brain drain to the US that had begun during the Second World War, and to provide a force for unity in post-war Europe. Alongside technological innovations such as the World Wide Web, its contributions to fundamental science include the discovery of the W and Z bosons, the determination of the number of light neutrino families and the discovery of direct CP violation. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider – the highest energy machine in the world – is in the middle of a programme of exploration that has already yielded the discovery of the Higgs boson.
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On 8 April, CERN unveiled plans for a major new facility for scientific education and outreach.
Results from a new survey show the impact of working at CERN on an individual’s career.
A strong tradition of innovation and ingenuity shows that, for CERN’s North Area, life really does begin at 40.
The seed that led CERN to relinquish ownership of the web in 1993 was planted when the Organization formally came into being.
Linac2, the machine that feeds CERN’s accelerator complex with protons, has entered a well-deserved retirement after 40 years of service.
The Future Circular Collider study would see a 100 km-circumference tunnel built at CERN to host post-LHC colliders.
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A pair of isospin partners of hidden-charm tetraquark candidates with strangeness add further pieces to the exotic-hadron jigsaw.
ATLAS presents the first determination of the strong-coupling constant with NNLO accuracy in three-jet production using the full Run 2 data.
A novel study of the production of strange and multi-strange hadrons by ALICE will help to improve the modelling of particle production at the LHC.
Honouring the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s Nobel prize, the Swedish embassy in Bern collaborated with CERN for an event connecting physics and music.
Such measurements are crucial to probe the CP properties of the Higgs boson’s Yukawa coupling to tau leptons.
A pioneering experimentalist in top-quark physics, Meenakshi Narain was also a powerful voice for women and minorities in science.
CERN and software company Zenseact have completed a three-year project investigating the use of AI in autonomous vehicles.
New results from the ALICE collaboration that probe the Milky Way's transparency to antimatter serve as an important guide for dark-matter searches.
Former LHC experimentalists discuss their experiences, good and bad, upon transitioning to the diverse employment world outside particle physics.
The CERN Linear Accelerator for Research (CLEAR) offers users a unique R&D facility for applications ranging from plasma accelerators to radiotherapy.
The challenges of performing precision flavour physics in the very harsh conditions of the HL-LHC are triggering a vast R&D programme at the forefront of technology.
The ALICE collaboration is charting a course to an exciting heavy-ion physics programme for Runs 5 and 6 at the High-Luminosity LHC.