Open Days lectures now available to watch online
At the recent CERN Open Days, theorists, physicists, experimentalists and even an anthropologist presented their work to the public in a series of talks.The talks are now available to watch online. You...
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CERN releases photos under a Creative Commons licence
Tim SmithThis image of the Large Hadron Collider now forms part of a collection of CERN images freely available to use and share under the standardized Creative Commons licence (Image: CERN)Licences...
View ArticleCERN hosts Energy for sustainable science workshop
Marina GiampietroToday marks the start of a workshop at CERN on energy for sustainable science at research infrastructures. Visit the industrial exhibition in the Pas perdus, first floor of CERN’s main...
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Fabiola Gianotti appointed to UN’s Scientific Advisory Board
Abha Eli PhobooFabiola Gianotti, ATLAS spokesperson from 2009 to early 2013, in front of the ATLAS detector. (Image: Claudia Marcelloni/CERN)CERN physicist and former spokesperson for the ATLAS...
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60 years: Sleek and stylish
Anaïs SchaefferAs you are aware, CERN will be celebrating its 60th birthday in 2014. To mark the event, next year will be filled with exciting events... of which there will be a taster in the next...
View ArticleHans Blix on thorium energy and nuclear non-proliferation
Hans Blix speaks to CERN about thorium energy, nuclear safety and non-proliferation (Video: CERN)The Thorium Energy Conference, ThEC13, ran from 27 to 31 October at CERN, addressing the scientific and...
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CERN theorist Slava Rychkov wins $100,000 New Horizons prize
Cian O'LuanaighCERN theorist Slava Rychkov got an unexpected phone call on the way home from the climbing gym last week. A member of Russian billionaire Yuri Milner's Fundamental Physics Prize...
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Test magnet reaches 13.5 tesla – a new CERN record
Sarah CharleyA niobium-tin based magnet assembly forms part of the Short Model Coil project at CERN (Image: Maximilien Brice)The Short Model Coil (SMC) programme tests new magnet technologies with...
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First H- beam at Linac 4: 3 MeV done, 157 MeV to go
A view of Linac 4 taken during recent tests (Image: Linac 4 collaboration)On 14 November, the first H- (one proton surrounded by two electrons) beam was accelerated to the energy of 3 MeV in the Linac...
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Inside CERN: Our lab, through a lens
Cian O'Luanaigh(Image: Andri Pol)A helpful smiley face on an emergency exit. A female physicist on the phone by a poster of Sean Connery. John Ellis behind a mountain of scientific papers.In Inside...
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ATLAS: 4.1 sigma for Higgs to two tau
Sylvie Brunet and Abha Eli PhobooThe ATLAS detector, open during a recent technical stop (Image: Maximilien Brice/CERN)The ATLAS experiment at CERN has released preliminary results that show evidence...
View ArticleCERN celebrates 60 years of science and peace
Antonella del RossoIn 1954 CERN was born. The laboratory was the first pan-European scientific endeavour. Just a few years after the Second World War, 12 European countries joined forces and built what...
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Particle Fever to screen at CERN
A still from the film Particle Fever, which will be screening in the Main Auditorium on Tuesday 10 December (Image: Particle Fever)On Tuesday 10 December at 7.30pm, there will be a special screening of...
View ArticleWebcast: Materials in the Flatland
Today at in CERN's Main Auditorium Nobel prize laureate Kostya Novoselov of the University of Manchester in the UK will present a talk entitled "Materials in the Flatland". Novoselov shared the Nobel...
View ArticleCelebration colloquium for Steve Myers
CERN celebrates Steve Myers’ career with a colloquium tomorrow at 2.30pm in the Main Auditorium.Watch the webcast here at 2.30pm CET on Friday 13 DecemberSteve was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and...
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Upgrading the ATLAS trigger system
Abha Eli PhobooThe ATLAS Level 1 Topo chip (Image: ATLAS)Although not all proton–proton collisions have interesting characteristics that lead to discoveries, the more data the better the chances of...
View ArticleWatch the DG's New Year presentation 2014
Today at 10am in the Main Auditorium, CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer will give his New Year presentation to CERN people. Simultaneous translation will be available in the Main...
View ArticleFormer CMS deputy takes reins of experiment
Sarah CharleyAt the beginning of the month, physicist Joe Incandela, who led the CMS experiment during the discovery of the Higgs boson, handed the reins to his former deputy, CERN physicist Tiziano...
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Frédérick Bordry takes up his new position
Antonella del RossoFrédérick Bordry is CERN's new Director for Accelerators and Technology (Image: CERN)For Frédérick Bordry, the former head of the Technology (TE) department, the new year brings a...
View ArticleCERN Ombuds: A new "sounding board"
After Vincent Vuillemin’s farewell last December, we are happy to introduce Sudeshna Datta-Cockerill, the new CERN Ombuds. Her mission is to help people find their own strategies to overcome issues in...
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