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.

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 ...

Le CERN et l’Agence de développement de la province du Limbourg (POM Limburg), ont signé aujourd’hui un accord visant à mettre en place sur le Corda Campus à Hasselt (Belgique) le premier pôle pilote ...

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 ...

In 1931, Paul Dirac predicted a particle with the same mass as the electron and the opposite charge. This particle, the “positron”, was observed the following year, in a cloud-chamber photograph taken ...

In his landmark 1945 report Science, the Endless Frontier, Vannevar Bush argued that basic research is the fund from which applications, and with them prosperity, are drawn. Eight decades on, the High ...

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 Safety Guidelines (SG) provide detailed instructions for the implementation of CERN Safety Rules. Compliance with a Safety Guideline provides a presumption of conformity with the associated CERN ...

Streets at CERN have carried names since the mid-1960s. While many have been named after renowned figures – historically, mainly men – in science and related fields, others have retained more generic ...

Wolfgang Pauli in 1955, with an image of the telegram he received the following year informing him of the discovery of the neutrino. (Image: Wolfgang Pauli Archive/CERN) Five weeks before the paper ...

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 ...