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Why the LHC magnets are blue – and other colourful accelerator questions answered
Are all LHC magnets blue? Who decides the colour of a magnet and on what basis? What does the small purple one do? See our answers below
AMS, a decade of cosmic discoveries
19 May 2021 marks 10 years since the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer was installed on the International Space Station and started sending data back to Earth
Why precision luminosity measurements matter
Both the CMS and ATLAS experiments have performed luminosity measurements with spectacular precision
Connecting the smallest and largest scales
The first edition of the EuCAPT annual symposium on 5-7 May saw hundreds of physicists discuss the latest opportunities and challenges in theoretical astroparticle physics and cosmology
A SciFi moment for the LHCb experiment
The first pieces of LHCb’s new scintillating-fibre particle-tracking detector, or SciFi, have just journeyed 100 metres down to be installed in the experiment’s underground cavern
Mining the Future
Join this international competition and submit your ideas for applications that could turn rock excavated during tunnelling for future CERN colliders into a resource
NA64 sets bounds on how much new X bosons could change the electron’s magnetism
The result cannot explain an apparent tension with the Standard Model in the electron’s magnetic moment
CERN approves new LHC experiment
SND@LHC, or Scattering and Neutrino Detector at the LHC, will be the facility’s ninth experiment
How CERN intellectual property helps entrepreneurship
On World Intellectual Property Day 2021, see how intellectual property lies at the core of successful knowledge transfer at CERN
On Earth Day, CERN underlines its commitment to a better planet
CERN’s state-of-the-art technologies are being translated into solutions for a greener future