Updates for students and educators
The basics of a boson
– In this animated lesson for TED-Ed, CERN physicists David Barney and Steven Goldfarb use the Socratic method to explain the Higgs boson
What happened to antimatter?
– Where is the missing antimatter? CERN scientist Rolf Landua teams up with TED-Ed animators to explain the disparity that allows us to exist
Dark matter: The matter we can't see
– CERN head of communications James Gillies teams up with TED-Ed animators to bring you this animated explanation of the matter we can't see
Exploration on the Big Data frontier
– Tim Smith of the CERN IT department teams up with TED-Ed animators to explain how CERN has tackled its Big Data challenge over the years
Earthquakes, Big Data and the Higgs boson at TEDxCERN today
– Watch a webcast of the inaugural TEDxCERN event at CERN today, which will see talks on topics from seafloor earthquakes to the Higgs boson
EU commissioner meets Marie Curie researchers at CERN
– Today Androulla Vassiliou is visiting CERN to meet young researchers supported by the EU Marie Curie Actions
Find a Higgs boson in LHC public data
– LHC experiments release a scattering of Higgs-candidate data to the public
Just 20 days to go – apply now for the Google Science Fair
– The Google Science Fair competition deadline closes on 30 April at midnight PDT. If you are aged 13-18, it may be your turn to change the world
Marking over 50 years of Franco-German cooperation
– Around 60 secondary school students from France and Germany visited CERN to find out more about the Franco-German relationship
Try a slice of Raspberry Pi at Fêtons LINUX
– A team from CERN will be showcasing the diminutive Raspberry Pi computer at the Fêtons LINUX event in Geneva on 27 April
Polish high-school students find inspiration at CERN
– Watch students and teachers from two schools in central Poland searching proton collisions from the LHC for signs of new particles
Students teach at 'inverted' school of computing
– Students took to the podium today at the Sixth Inverted CERN School of Computing
Students of the world unite – to analyze LHC data
– The 9th International Masterclasses in particle physics kicked off today, linking high school students around the world by video-conference
The computing school where students teach
– The 'inverted' School of Computing (iCSC) at CERN from 25 to 26 February 2013 will allow former students to take a turn at lecturing
Working in Switzerland? Register for FameLab
– Register now to give an exciting scientific talk and you could be the new face of Science in Switzerland
Apply now for Google Science Fair 2013
– The third annual Google Science Fair opens today. Students aged 13 to 18 are invited to submit science or engineering projects online
Five days left to apply for CERN's Summer Student Programme
– There are only five days left to apply for the chance to join CERN as a summer student and work on some of the world's biggest experiments
Apply now for 2013 European School of High-Energy Physics
– Applications to the 2013 school, which will be held in Hungary, are open until 22 February
Dutch high-school students analyse ATLAS event data
– Nine students from Kandinsky College in Nijmegen in the Netherlands, visited CERN as part of a school trip to learn about particle physics
Sign up for 2nd Raspberry Pi Jam at CERN
– On 19 January 2013 CERN will host a Raspberry Pi "Jam" for people to experience tinkering and programming on the diminutive computer
