AWAKE, a CERN experiment that explores how to make particle accelerators more compact, has become the first facility to pause operations for CERN’s third long shutdown (LS3). While most of CERN’s ...

The Schengen area, without internal borders, has now been in existence for 30 years. It comprises 29 countries: the 25 EU member states (except Cyprus and Ireland) and 4 non-EU countries (Iceland, ...

In my last Report, I announced the completion of the first proton physics run of the 2025 LHC schedule and the start of a series of special runs. These included the oxygen and neon ion runs, as well ...

Unsolicited marketing and, even worse, fraudulent calls are unfortunately very common nowadays. Although total protection is impossible, the CERN Telephony Service has implemented several mechanisms ...

Aeschimann's play Collision(s) at the 59th Avignon Off Theatre Festival. Collision(s) is part of the Binôme project (see below), which is the brainchild of French theatre company Les sens des mots, in ...

La mise en place de services et d’applications informatiques infaillibles et entièrement sécurisées n’est qu’une chimère. Il n’existe pas de logiciel qui soit sécurisé à 100 %, et c’est normal. En eff ...

In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the CLOUD collaboration at CERN reveals a new source of atmospheric aerosol particles that could help scientists to refine climate models. Aerosols ...

Our fourth story in the LHC Physics at Ten series discusses the LHC’s hunt for the hypothetical particle that may make up dark matter ...

The Open Quantum Institute (OQI) passes a new milestone today, with the operational launch at CERN. Following a successful one-year incubation period led by the Geneva Science and Diplomacy ...