Image: Artistic representation of the tunnel for the FCC-hh (proton-proton collider) / PIXELRISE Released today, a report of a study investigating the project’s feasibility will serve as input for the European Strategy for Particle Physics and be assessed by the CERN Council in the coming...
10,000 times faster than traditional methods: new computational framework automatically discovers experimental designs in microscopy Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) framework which autonomously discovers new experimental designs in microscopy. Read the complete...
Possible clues about the history of the universe from Mediterranean minerals. Ancient minerals, formed six million years ago, during the drying up of the Mediterranean Sea, and known as “evaporites”, could hold precious traces of the interaction with cosmic rays, and reveal important information about...
Bologna, Italy, 7 January 2025 – On January 7, 2025, the European Commission established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), furthering its mission to become the world’s largest and most powerful observatory for gamma-ray astronomy. The creation of...
The International Young Physicists’ Tournament (IYPT) will take place from 29th June to 6th July 2025 in Lund, Sweden. Sam Edgecombe, chairman of IYPT Sweden, invites you to take part in the event. What is IYPT?The International Young Physicists’ Tournament (IYPT), sometimes referred to as the...
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.
Winners of the 2024 CERN Beamline for Schools competition: “Mavericks” from Estonia (top right), “SPEEDers” from the USA (bottom right) and “Sakura Particles” from Japan (left) (Images: Mavericks, SPEEDers, Sakura Particles)Geneva and Hamburg, 25 June 2024. Beamline for Schools (BL4S) is a physics competition run by CERN, the...
Discovery Space is an EU-funded project to develop an Exploratory Learning Environment to facilitate students’ inquiry and problem-solving through learning scenarios featuring virtual and remote labs. Students will be guided through differentiated learning pathways, customized by their input as they progress through learning scenarios covering...
Geneva, 30 August 2024. Today, CERN is welcoming Estonia as its 24th Member State, marking the end of the formal application process that started in 2018 and crowning a period of cooperation that stretches back three decades.
Statement by the Executive Committee of the European Physical Society 26 February 2022 The European Physical Society (EPS) strongly condemns the continuing attacks by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, an independent and sovereign country. In clear violation of international law, the Russian government’s decision will...