A small number of visionary scientists in Europe and North America identified the need for Europe to have a world-class physics research facility. Their vision was both to stop the brain drain to ...

CERN is governed and primarily funded by its 25 Member States. Alongside 11 Associate Member States and partners worldwide, they make CERN a global hub for scientific collaboration.

CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, and Mistral, a European developer of large-scale AI models, have signed a statement of intent to establish a long-term strategic partnership focused ...

Winners of the ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Awards 2026 (M. Cavazza/CERN) Great physics relies on great teamwork. The ATLAS Collaboration brings together over 6000 scientists, engineers and other ...

CERN and POM Limburg, Limburg’s provincial development agency, signed an agreement today to establish the first CERN Innovation Hub pilot at Corda Campus in Hasselt, Belgium. The hub will give Belgian ...

Not all accelerators increase a particle’s speed. The AD slows down antiprotons so they can be used to study antimatter The Antiproton Decelerator (AD) is a unique machine that produces low-energy ...

The Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations Office and other international organisations in Geneva has announced that, as of 2 March 2026, a new model of legitimation card will be ...

What do rope winding and giant pasta shapes have to do with particle physics? The answer is a new superconducting magnet prototype under development at CERN, lovingly named Fusillo because of its ...

The collimation system of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which protects the accelerator’s components, needs an upgrade to be able to handle the performance of CERN’s future accelerator What is a ...

CERN has released its strategy and main objectives for the period 2026–2030, approved by the CERN Council in June. The strategy closely follows the priorities laid out in the 2026 update of the ...

The findings could help to explain the species’ fascinating flocking behaviour Now, new research has shed light on the reason for these extraordinary abilities. Scientists at CERN have found evidence ...

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 ...