From performing detailed studies of the Higgs boson to demonstrating the first antimatter quantum bit and converting lead nuclei into gold nuclei, this year CERN further expanded our knowledge of the ...

The framework for former staff members active over retirement age has been updated to recognise continued contributions and clarify roles and expectations for all involved. The Retired Contributing ...

CERN’s strongest asset is its people. The many great accomplishments we presented in our final Directorate meeting on 16 December would not have been possible without your competence, dedication and ...

In November 2025, CERN hosted the Quantum Business Community (QBC) Summit, the annual gathering of the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC), of which CERN is an associate member. The event ...

For the first time in CERN’s history, private donors (individuals and philanthropic foundations) have agreed to support a CERN flagship research project. Recently, a group of friends of CERN, ...

One exabyte of experimental data has now been gathered from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), marking a major milestone for ...

Behind every particle collision generated at the Large Hadron Collider is a multitude of technical feats. One of these is refrigeration on an industrial scale. To guide the particles, the thousands of ...

Originally created for the Cité des métiers, the exhibition “The Faces of CERN: People Advancing Science” will be displayed in CERN's Globe of Science and Innovation from December 17, 2025 to March 1, ...

Prominently placed in the Main Building, the Room C (61/1-009) meeting room is used for everything from strategic discussions to protocol visits. Now that the previous photo exhibition has run its ...

Imagine a planetary computer capable of storing and processing hundreds of petabytes of data for the research needs of a worldwide community of scientists. This is the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid ...

Designing and building an energetic particle instrument always requires trade-offs in size, cost, resolution, dynamic range, etc. Although the particles are the same, the trade-offs are different for ...

Des études détaillées du boson de Higgs à la mise en évidence du premier bit quantique d’antimatière, en passant par l’observation de la conversion de noyaux de plomb en noyaux d’or, le CERN a encore ...