Updates
LHCb presents evidence of rare B decay
— At the Hadron Collider Symposium in Kyoto, LHCb presented a 3.5-sigma result for a B0S particle decaying into two muons
Collider physics in Japan
— The 23rd Hadron Collider Physics Symposium 2012 kicks off today in Kyoto, Japan
"Sound sculptor" wins artist's residency at CERN
— The second Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN artist's residency has been awarded to American sound-artist Bill Fontana (65)
Public lecture: The International Space Station
— Former manager of the ISS programme William Gerstenmaier will talk about the space station in the CERN Globe this evening
Public lecture: Dance and physics
— To mark the end of his residency as CERN's artist in residence, choreographer Gilles Jobin will talk about "Collisions between dance and physics"
Public lecture: The Voyager probes
— Edward Stone, project scientist for the Voyager probes since 1972, will talk in the CERN Globe at 8pm CEST
What else could this boson be?
— Symmetry has more on what the Higgs-like particle, announced at CERN on 4 July, could be
The space adventure comes to a conference at CERN
— The 4th International Conference on Particle and Fundamental Physics in Space (SpacePart12) will take place at CERN from 5 November to 7 November 2012
ALICE plans future upgrades
— A smaller beam pipe and a redesign of the tracker systems are among the upgrades the ALICE experiment will deploy during the long shutdown of the LHC
James Gillies wins Global Business Communicator of the year
— CERN's head of communications James Gillies was awarded the Global Business Communicator of the year award at an event in Mumbai, India on Friday
Students screen CERN technologies
— Thirty-one students evaluated the market potential of three CERN technologies this week as part of a collaboration with their Norwegian university
Wilton Park: Science, theology and the big bang
— Scientists from CERN examined the common ground between science, philosophy and theology at a Wilton Park meeting this week
A summer of (physics) code
— This summer, seven young coding wizzes contributed to CERN projects through the Google Summer of Code program
Bringing particle physics to the Frankfurt Book Fair
— CERN is showcasing its science at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany from 10-14 October
ESO celebrates its 50th anniversary
— The European Southern Observatory, founded on 5 October 1962, has close links with CERN
A major step forward for open-access publishing
— Representatives from 29 countries are meeting at CERN today to launch the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics
LHC Grid tackles 270-year-old maths problem
— The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid is taking on a mathematical conjecture first written down by Christian Goldbach in 1742
Agnieszka Zalewska elected president of CERN council
— The polish physicist will serve for a period of one year renewable twice, with a mandate starting on 1 January 2013
ATLAS Virtual Visits wins Digital Communication Award
— The project was awarded "Best Online Event" at an awards ceremony in Berlin, Germany, last week
LHC experiments already planning for long shutdown
— ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb are looking ahead to the 20-month shutdown from February 2013
