Winners of the 2026 CERN Beamline for Schools competition: “Team PionIST 3” from Türkiye (top left), “Team POLARIS” from Bangladesh (top centre), “Team Mobile MIPs” from the UK (right), “Team Centauri ...

Today, following more than two years of intense work of the European particle physics community under the auspices of the European Strategy Group, the CERN Council updated the European Strategy for ...

At the Large Hadron Collider, particles are accelerated to almost the speed of light before colliding within detectors around the ring to produce even more particles. Researchers use detectors to ...

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 ...

MARS Bioimaging Extremity Scanner System, a portable photon-counting CT system for upper-extremity imaging (Image: MARS Bioimaging Ltd) Originally derived from a technology developed to explore the ...

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 ...

One of the four missions of CERN is to “train new generations of physicists, engineers and technicians” in a broad area of subjects, topics and themes directly and indirectly linked to their interests ...

At 00:35 CEST today, the Artemis II mission successfully launched, marking the first human journey to the Moon since 1972. During their ten-day journey aboard the Orion spacecraft, the four astronauts ...

Effective 2 April 2026, Chile has become an Associate Member State of CERN. Its status entered into force following Chile’s ratification of the Associate Member State Agreement of May 2025 and its ...

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 ...

In 2026, CERN has received funding for 13 new projects from the European Union’s R&D programme Horizon Europe, following applications to Research Infrastructures calls in 2025. All these projects will ...

The LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has discovered a new particle consisting of two charm quarks and one down quark, a similar structure to the familiar proton, but with two ...