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The Esplanade des Particules in Meyrin
The Etat de Genève and CERN are today announcing the imminent start of work just outside the CERN site to create the brand-new Esplanade des Particules, a space worthy of Europe’s leading laboratory...
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Say more with CERN “emojis”
Iva RaynovaThe newly released CERN stickers offer a new, less formal means of communication between people working at CERN. (Image: Esma Mobs/CERN)A picture speaks a thousand words and we all know it’s...
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Django Girls – Let the coding begin
Laurianne TrimoullaDjango Girls Geneva participants at IdeaSquare. (Image: Marzena Lapka)Who would ever think of spending a full Saturday indoors, coding for several hours, instead of enjoying a warm,...
View ArticleComputer Security: The Higgs does not... send mail!
The Computer Security Team“The Higgs boson does not exist!” stated an e-mail recently sent to many of our colleagues within CERN as well as with our global research community. We can definitely enter...
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ALICE’s wonders reach out to kids in Prévessin
Virginia GrecoThe entrance to the new "ALICE School" in Prévessin-Moëns. (Image: Virginia Greco/CERN)On Saturday, 11 March, a primary school named “ALICE” was inaugurated in the village of...
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LHC Report: (em)powering the LHC
Mirko Pojer for the Operation group and powering test teamOn Thursday, 13 April, the extended year-end technical stop (EYETS) was officially declared complete and the machine handed over from the team...
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CERN is keeping its ear to the ground
Anaïs SchaefferCERN’s sensors recorded the 3.3 magnitude tremor that hit the Chamonix region on 20 March. (Image: Service Sismologique Suisse)In Spring 2018, the first civil engineering work for the...
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New ALICE results show novel phenomena in proton collisions
As the number of particles produced in proton collisions (the blue lines) increase, the more of these so-called strange hadrons are measured (as shown by the orange to red squares in the graph) (Image:...
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CERN Roadshow in Finland
A unique event called the CERN Roadshow in Finland took place on 6 April 2017. Organised by the Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and CERN, the Roadshow brought together members of the CERN and HIP...
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The African School of Physics: a springboard for the future
Stefania Pandolfi and Kétévi AssamaganA biennial African School of Physics (ASP) on fundamental physics and its applications was established in 2010 in order to promote international cooperation in the...
View ArticleComputer Security: an attack for more security
The Computer Security TeamCERN found itself under heavy attack in summer 2015 with cybercriminals trying to take over PCs and computing accounts and aiming to extract some of our public documents....
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Co-creating Humanitarian Foresight and Futures
Daniel Dobos and Claudia Marcelloni#HFFC17 participants from UNOCHA, ICRC, UNHCR, WFP, Terre des Hommes, Handicap International, MSF and many other organizations are co-creating the six humanitarian...
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CERN wins award for pioneering communications
Ana Godinho, Head of CERN's Education, Communications and Outreach group (left, holding the microphne), receives the 2017 Award for Constribution to Science Communication on behalf of CERN from Czech...
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Spectral imaging: from CERN to medical technologies
Ranveig Strom for the KT groupSpectral imaging allows colour imaging in CT scans. MARS can measure multiple targeting agents simultaneously. (Image: MARS Spectral Imaging)Ever since Röntgen discovered...
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Behind the scenes of the SPS’s 40th birthday
Anita HollierOn 7 May 1977, around 2000 people gathered at CERN for the inauguration of the Super Proton Synchrotron. (Image: CERN)Forty years ago, on 7 May 1977, CERN inaugurated the world’s largest...
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LHC Report: gearing up the LHC for physics
Rende Steerenberg for the Operations groupThe single-bunch low-intensity beam seen on a BTV screen. The passage of the LHC beam leaves a nice round spot on the screen. Here the spot is not fully round...
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CERN CASTs new limits on dark matter
Stefania PandolfiCAST, CERN's axion solar telescope, moves on its rail to follow the Sun (Image: Max Brice/CERN)In a paper published on 1 May in Nature Physics, the CERN Axion Solar Telescope...
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Comp. Security: “WannaCry”? The importance of being patched
The Computer Security TeamMid-May has seen a big weekend for the cyber-threat landscape, as "WannaCry" (also known as "WannaCrypt") came onto the scene with a bang and affected many Microsoft Windows...
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Women in science: breaking the cliché
Iva RaynovaProfessor Dame Julia Slingo, DBE, former chief scientist of the Met Office in the UK, Ms. Elena Manaenkova, Deputy Secretary-General of the WMO and Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director-General,...
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Who now runs the (programming) world? ICT Girls
Marika Matilda AnnilaGirls at the CERN stand getting ready for an interview on their projects (Image: ITU)In the past 10 years, the percentage of female personnel at CERN has barely increased: women...
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