Updates
CERN exchanges knowledge with the Swiss non-profit CSEM
— The CERN Knowledge Transfer group is hosting a one-day meeting to promote knowledge-exchange with the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology
Grid computing founder: 'Science needs to travel faster'
— Ian Foster, one of the founders of grid computing, on the challenges of big data
The basics of the Higgs boson
— In this animated lesson for TED-Ed, CERN physicists David Barney and Steven Goldfarb use the Socratic method to explain the Higgs boson
Orbital welding on the Large Hadron Collider
— Watch Said Atieh of Engineering department explain some of the unique challenges of welding on the LHC
A fundamental property of the rarest element on Earth
— An international team of physicists at ISOLDE have for the first time measured the ionization potential of the rare radioactive element astatine
First observations of short-lived pear-shaped atomic nuclei
— An international team at the ISOLDE radioactive-beam facility at CERN has shown that some atomic nuclei can assume asymmetric, "pear" shapes
CERN and OpenAIREplus launch European research repository
— Zenodo, hosted at CERN, will researchers to share publications and supporting data more easily
Lab-made liquid may cause strange particle behaviour
— A new result from the CMS collaboration takes a step toward revealing the origin of the mysterious "ridge effect"
Webcast: Ig Nobel show
— Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals of Improbable Research will be presenting the Ig Nobel show at the University of Geneva today
The birth of a Higgs boson
— Physicists from the ATLAS and CMS collaborations explain how they came to identify the new particle of 2012 as "a Higgs boson"
First TEDxCERN event kicks off at CERN
— The inaugural TEDxCERN event at CERN today will see a plethora of talks on topics from seafloor earthquakes to the Higgs boson
The Large Hadron Collider's worldwide computer
— Behind the excellent results from CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) lies the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid – a giant that never sleeps
ALPHA: Novel investigation of gravity and antimatter
— The ALPHA collaboration has published a paper describing the first direct analysis of how antimatter is affected by gravity
Twenty years of a free, open web
— On 30 April 1993 CERN published a statement that made World Wide Web technology available on a royalty free basis, allowing the web to flourish
ALICE: Upgrade work begins
— With the long shutdown under way, the ALICE collaboration is preparing for the next 10 years of operation
The Large Hadron Collider goes to London
— The Science Museum in London is launching a new exhibition featuring digital detector caverns and magnets from the LHC
LHCb experiment observes new matter-antimatter difference
— The LHCb collaboration has made the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays the B0s
CMS prepares for the future
— There will be no rest at Point 5, the site of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector, during the long shutdown of the LHC
Two-beam module to drive particle beams
— The first module of the Compact Linear Collider is being tested at CERN – with neither beam nor radiofrequency system
Animation shows LHC data processing
— A new animation from CERN's IT department shows how LHC data is collected and sent around the world for processing
