CERN’s fundamental research and unique environment are fertile ground for innovations in particle accelerators, detectors and computing that can benefit society as a whole, sometimes in surprising ...

CAFEIN®, CERN’s federated learning artificial intelligence (AI) platform, has been recognised as runner-up in the Digital Frontiers category at the Digital@UNGA Awards 2026. The award celebrates ...

At CERN, the Learning and Development service provides members of the community with numerous opportunities to develop their skills, broaden their horizons and put new approaches into practice across ...

The SBOM (short for “Software Bill of Materials”) gets a bad rap in IT. As full (and often enormous) inventories of components, libraries and packages, SBOMs are complicated to set up and therefore no ...

Jean-Paul Burnet (Beams Department) and Benjamin Couturier (Experimental Physics Department) are the two new elected members of the Senior Staff Consultative Committee, also known as The Nine. The ...

From 2 to 12 October, explore the theme “saveurs, savantes” at the Fête de la Science across France, including in the Pays de Gex. To mark the occasion, CERN is taking part in the collaborative ...

From 11 to 25 August, a bit earlier as usual due to Long Shutdown 3 (LS3), CERN, DESY (the German electron synchrotron facility in Hamburg) and ELSA (the electron accelerator at the University of Bonn ...

Mark Thomson is a British experimental particle physicist who took up the role of CERN Director-General in January 2026. He earned his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1991 and joined CERN ...

Starting on the evening of Friday, 9 October, CERN will participate in the sixth edition of “La nuit est belle !”. Thanks to this initiative, turning off or dimming street lighting in the middle of ...

There’s more to CERN than the Large Hadron Collider. A series of accelerators work together to push particles to nearly the speed of light The accelerator complex at CERN is a succession of machines ...

Some of the last LHC collisions recorded by the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb experiments in 2026 (Left to right, top to bottom). (Image: CERN) In the meantime, it’s time to take stock of the three ...

Layout of a printed circuit board made using KiCad. The cornerstone of open source philosophy is that the recipients of technology should have access to all of its building blocks, such as software ...