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Particle physics at the Montreux Jazz Festival

This week, CERN will be hosting a seminar entitled The music of physics and the physics of music at the Montreux Jazz Festival

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Experiments
16 July, 2013

Particle physics at the Montreux Jazz Festival

Rock out to riffs and head-bang to the Higgs boson as CERN heads to the world-famous music festival in Switzerland

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Experiments
16 July, 2013

LS1 report: A hot summer

Work is progressing well on the new access and safety system being deployed across the accelerator chain

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Accelerators
15 July, 2013
Accelerators
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15 July, 2013

Next step, the Tour de France?

The penultimate stage of the 2013 Tour de France, the Annecy-Semnoz time-trial, has already been won – by a CERN staff member

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At CERN
15 July, 2013
At CERN
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15 July, 2013

A mystery of the beauty baryon lifetime resolved

The LHCb Collaboration has just published an important precise measurement of the Λb beauty baryon lifetime

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Physics
15 July, 2013

Atomic flashback: A century of the Bohr model

In July 1913, Niels Bohr published the first of a series of three papers introducing his model of the atom

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Physics
12 July, 2013

Future LHC super-magnets pass muster

Scientists in the US LHC Accelerator Research Program have successfully tested superconducting magnets needed to increase LHC collisions tenfold

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Engineering
11 July, 2013
Engineering
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11 July, 2013

CERN and EUROVISION unite to attract “tweens” to science

Grants will be awarded to two production companies to develop media to get kids aged 8 to 12 interested in science

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At CERN
11 July, 2013

Helix Nebula and the view from space

Wolfgang Lengert of the European Space Agency talks to International Science Grid This Week about big data and the Helix Nebula project

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Computing
10 July, 2013
Computing
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10 July, 2013

Visiting CERN for more than just the logical stuff

Make-A-Wish visitor Callum Kerr had his dream come true with a trip to CERN

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At CERN
09 July, 2013