Wolfgang Pauli in 1955, with an image of the telegram he received the following year informing him of the discovery of the neutrino. (Image: Wolfgang Pauli Archive/CERN) Five weeks before the paper ...

Drilling from a dedicated platform on Lake Geneva is improving understanding of subsurface conditions to inform the proposed FCC’s underground infrastructure. (Image: CERN) Understanding what lies ...

The winners of the 2026 LHCb Awards at CERN with the Chairs of the selection committees (Image: CERN) Congratulations to the 2026 winners of the LHCb Thesis Awards, Early-Career Scientist Awards and ...

Every year, the CMS Collaboration congratulates individuals who have made significant contributions across the experiment by presenting them with a CMS Award. These Awards highlight the essential work ...

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

The opening of CERN Science Gateway is imminent and, inside the impressive building, teams are adding the final touches to the labs for schools, auditorium for events and three permanent, hands-on ...

Update: did you enjoy our April Fool’s day story? While we won’t be racing karts through the tunnel, we are gearing up for major works to prepare for HiLumi LHC and its new technologies. The image is ...

Particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can reach temperatures over one hundred thousand times hotter than at the centre of the Sun. Yet, somehow, light atomic nuclei and their ...

Launched in 2021 by Arts at CERN and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Connect has established itself as a key platform for artistic experimentation in connection with fundamental science. The ...

High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) Rare-Earth Barium Copper Oxide (also referred to as REBCO) power transmission cable used at CERN Source: CERN (CDS) Today, CERN and Airbus UpNext, a wholly owned ...

In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the BASE collaboration at CERN reports the most precise comparison yet between protons and antiprotons, the antimatter counterparts of protons.

Event display showing nineteen charged-particle tracks (yellow lines) recorded by the ATLAS experiment during proton–oxygen collisions in July 2025. (Image: ATLAS) Tens of kilometres above Earth’s ...