The 27-km LHC has eight surface points. Point 8, home of the LHCb experiment, is located close to the French town of Ferney-Voltaire. (Image: CERN) What if the world’s largest particle accelerator ...

If you’re looking for guidance, a sounding board or the chance to share your experience, the Mentoring@CERN programme is for you. The programme is run by the LHC Early Career Scientists Fora and ...

The new Duty Travel website is now online and ready to use. You will find it referenced in all key places such as the CERN Directory, the Admin e-guide, CET, etc. The aim of this new site is to ...

The past two years have brought a lot of new computer-security deployments at CERN. Spurred on by the 2023 cybersecurity audit, a lot has already been achieved and 2026 should see the successful ...

Uncertainty is inherent to the scientific process. The measurements that scientists make are only as good as the tools they use to make them. Taking uncertainty into account is part of everyday life ...

What is the fate of the Universe? Why is there more matter than antimatter? What lurks beyond the Standard Model? Each of ...

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2025 end-of-year crossword for the CERN Community. We hope that you had fun and ...

Physicists can be allies, wrote Wassily Kandinsky, “who test matter again and again, who tremble before no problem, and who finally cast doubt on that very matter which was yesterday the foundation of ...

Millions of asteroids orbit the Sun, most of them unnoticed. Far more rarely, larger objects cause serious damage on the ground, as was seen in the Tunguska explosion in 1908 and in the Chelyabinsk ...

The past two years have brought a lot of new computer-security deployments at CERN. Spurred on by the 2023 cybersecurity audit, the Computer Security Office in collaboration with the IT department ...

The accelerator complex delivered its last beams of 2025 on 8 December before beginning the year-end technical stop (YETS). During a technical stop, the responsibility for accelerator coordination is ...

Widely regarded as the greatest polar explorer of our time, Børge Ousland has completed solo expeditions to both the North ...