News
News
Celebrating 50 years of the CERN relay race – and details of this year’s event!
As this year’s edition of the legendary race approaches, the time has come to look back on 50 years of exuberance, silly costumes, beer drinking and the occasional bit of running
Accelerator Report: mostly on schedule, sometimes not…
The beam commissioning of the Antiproton Decelerator will start on 12 June, and the aim is to deliver antiprotons to the eagerly waiting AD-ELENA experiments on 30 June
Happy birthday to the Passport to the Big Bang
The Passport to the Big Bang discovery trail is celebrating its tenth anniversary - ten years during which local people have been able to find out about science and technology while cycling around the France-Geneva countryside.
30 years of a free and open Web
30 April 2023 marks 30 years since the release of the World Wide Web software to the public
Accelerator Report: Crescendo at the LHC following the first stable beams at 6.8 TeV
Another important milestone was achieved in the LHC beam commissioning: on 21 April, the LHC Engineer in Charge declared “stable beams” at 6.8 TeV, the first time in 2023
HiLumi News: Recovery of an HL-LHC niobium–tin magnet
The successful replacement of a coil in an HL-LHC niobium–tin quadrupole magnet by the US Accelerator Upgrade Project team has showcased this crucial technology’s flexibility and cost-effectiveness
The Technical Galleries Consolidation Project is progressing well
5 km of technical galleries have been scanned and half of them 3D-modelled, and the work to renovate and replace their technical infrastructure is in full swing
The 2023 Django Girls Geneva event was a resounding success!
Last weekend, 34 “Django Girls” discovered the world of computer programming and created their first website under the guidance of CERN mentors
Computer Security: The symbiosis of your life
Following a surge of technological innovation starting at the end of the twentieth century, the twenty-first century has brought a major socio-biological evolution that not even Charles Darwin would have dreamed of: the homo sapiens sapiens digitalensis
SuperNode and CERN collaborate on new solutions for renewable energy transmission
The result of this collaboration on superconductivity could greatly improve energy transmission and accelerate the transition to renewable energy