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CERN Council selects Mark Thomson as next Director-General, starting in 2026
Professor Thomson’s five-year mandate will begin on 1 January 2026
Celebrating one year of CERN Venture Connect
A year into its journey, CERN Venture Connect has become a launchpad for deep-tech startups
CERN70: The discovery of the Higgs boson, a giant leap for science
Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director-General, was spokesperson of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider from 2009 to 2013 and responsible for announcing the discovery of the Higgs boson, alongside the CMS spokesperson
BASE experiment takes a big step towards portable antimatter
The experiment successfully transported a box filled with unbonded protons across CERN’s main site, thus demonstrating that the same feat could later be possible for antiprotons
CMS uses photons to probe the structure of nuclei
Using data from the first heavy-ion run of LHC Run 3 in 2023, the experiment presents the first-ever measurement of D0 meson production in photon-lead collisions
CERN70: Tasting the primordial soup
Jürgen Schukraft was the first spokesperson of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
Estonian flag raised at CERN
CERN raised today the Estonian flag to welcome its 24th Member State
Decoding top quarks with precision
The ATLAS experiment at the LHC reveals how pairs of top quarks are produced along with other heavy quarks
CERN teams up with Luxembourg and the World Food Programme to tackle global hunger
The new partnership aims to leverage state-of-the-art AI technology to speed up progress towards a world with zero hunger
Particle physicists chart a course to the future
The aim of the third update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics is to develop a visionary and concrete plan that greatly advances human knowledge in fundamental physics through the realisation of the next flagship project at CERN