A major event at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC): the accelerator has just collided beams of protons and oxygen ions for the ...

Le réseau technique (Technical Network – TN) v3.0 (voir notre article précédent) constitue une étape nécessaire pour une sécurisation complète des systèmes de contrôle utilisés au CERN, que ce soit po ...

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the ...

Affichage de LHC page 1 le 1er juillet à 5 h 55. (Image : CERN) Le Grand collisionneur de hadrons (LHC) vient de vivre un ...

The Slovenian flag was raised today at a ceremony held at CERN to mark the country’s accession as CERN’s 25th Member State. The ceremony was attended by the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Robert Golob, ...

The CERN Summer Student Programme offers students pursuing bachelor’s or master’s degrees in physics, computing, engineering and maths a unique opportunity to join in the day-to-day work of research ...

Candidate event displays of Higgs boson decaying into two muons as recorded by CMS (left) and ATLAS (right). (Image: CERN) When a new particle physics discovery is made, you may have heard the term ...

The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is the second-largest machine in CERN’s accelerator complex. Measuring nearly 7 kilometres in circumference, it takes particles from the Proton Synchrotron and ...

Why is gravity so much weaker than the other fundamental forces? A small fridge magnet is enough to create an electromagnetic force greater than the gravitational pull exerted by planet Earth. One ...

The Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter in the early universe. But today, everything we see from the smallest life forms on Earth to the largest stellar objects is made ...

Le CERN est un contributeur important aux réserves de sang de la région, qui selon le baromètre du sang à Genève sont ...

What is the data flow from the LHC experiments? The CERN Data Centre stores more than 30 petabytes of data per year from the LHC experiments, enough to fill about 1.2 million Blu-ray discs, i.e. 250 ...