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ATLAS closes in on rare Higgs decays

The ATLAS collaboration finds evidence of Higgs-boson decays to muons and improves sensitivity to Higgs-boson decays to a Z boson and a photon.

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Physics
11 July, 2025
Physics
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11 July, 2025

Students from Belgium, Canada, Mexico, Türkiye and the USA win the 12th edition of Beamline for Schools

Five teams of secondary school pupils have been selected to carry out their own experiments using accelerator beams at CERN, DESY and the University of Bonn

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At CERN
09 July, 2025
At CERN
Press release
09 July, 2025

A century of quantum mechanics

On 9 July 1925, in a letter to Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg revealed his new ideas, which were to revolutionise physics

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Physics
09 July, 2025
Physics
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09 July, 2025

Elusive romance of top-quark pairs observed at the LHC 

The CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have observed an unforeseen feature in the behaviour of top quarks that suggests that these heaviest of all elementary particles form a fleeting union

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Physics
08 July, 2025
Physics
Press release
08 July, 2025

Slovenian flag raised at CERN

The Slovenian flag was raised today at a ceremony held at CERN to mark the country’s accession as CERN’s 25th Member State

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At CERN
03 July, 2025
At CERN
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03 July, 2025

First-ever collisions of oxygen at the LHC

The Large Hadron Collider gets a breath of fresh air as it collides beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first time. Oxygen–oxygen and neon–neon collisions are also on the menu of the next few days

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Accelerators
01 July, 2025
Accelerators
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01 July, 2025

Venice event brings future of particle physics into focus

Discussions this week at the Open Symposium of the European Strategy for Particle Physics demonstrate strong progress towards ensuring that CERN remains a world leader in collider physics and technology

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At CERN
27 June, 2025
At CERN
Press release
27 June, 2025

Lift off: CERN engineer travels to space

CERN engineer Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, now an ESA astronaut, has just taken off for the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

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Engineering
25 June, 2025
Engineering
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25 June, 2025

CERN welcomes Slovenia as its 25th Member State

On 21 June 2025, Slovenia became a Member State of CERN

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At CERN
23 June, 2025
At CERN
Press release
23 June, 2025

AMS upgrade passes qualification tests with flying colours

A new set of “eyes” that will enhance the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer’s sensitivity to cosmic rays is now one step closer to space, thanks to recent progress at CERN

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Experiments
23 June, 2025