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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

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At CERN
06 November, 2024
At CERN
Press release
06 November, 2024

Celebrating one year of CERN Venture Connect

A year into its journey, CERN Venture Connect has become a launchpad for deep-tech startups

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Knowledge sharing
04 November, 2024
Knowledge sharing
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04 November, 2024

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

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Physics
31 October, 2024

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

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Experiments
25 October, 2024
Experiments
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25 October, 2024

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

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Physics
25 October, 2024

CERN70: Tasting the primordial soup

Jürgen Schukraft was the first spokesperson of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider

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Experiments
18 October, 2024
Experiments
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18 October, 2024

Estonian flag raised at CERN

CERN raised today the Estonian flag to welcome its 24th Member State

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At CERN
17 October, 2024
At CERN
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17 October, 2024

Decoding top quarks with precision

The ATLAS experiment at the LHC reveals how pairs of top quarks are produced along with other heavy quarks

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Physics
16 October, 2024
Physics
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16 October, 2024

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

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Computing
15 October, 2024

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

Press release
Physics
11 October, 2024
Physics
Press release
11 October, 2024