From 10 to 14 February, 76 ambassadors from CERN, the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

His Excellency Mr Luc Frieden, Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, signs CERN’s guestbook in the presence of the Director-General, Fabiola Gianotti, on 26 February 2025. (Image: CERN) On ...

CERN’s computing infrastructure is vast and heterogeneous, dynamic and complex. Keeping it secure is a marathon – trying to stay ahead of new deployments in order to guarantee decent protection, but ...

Vaccination remains one of the most effective tools in public health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), every year vaccination helps prevent between 3.5 and 5 million deaths from ...

Panel including representatives of permanent missions in Geneva (Italy, Mexico, Kenya, Vanuatu, Slovenia, India and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) exploring the key themes of quantum science and ...

In the 1860s, James Clerk Maxwell recognized the similarities between electricity and magnetism and developed his theory of a single electromagnetic force. A similar discovery came a century later, ...

In 1928 the physicist Paul Dirac proposed that every particle of matter should have an antimatter counterpart. But shortly after the big bang, most of the antimatter disappeared, leaving behind the ...

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. They use the world's largest and most complex scientific ...

Live Webcast - All CERN staff and Users are welcome to attend the Open Session. The CLOSED Session will take place on Wednesday afternoon and on Thursday morning.

The “Standard Model” of particle physics is a set of equations that describes accurately how a small number of fundamental particles interact, and how they form visible matter. But we know that this ...

Particle physicist, Eckhard Elsen (born in 1955, German) held many committee positions, including chairing the LHC experiments committee from 2011-2014. Eckhard Elsen - Director for Research and ...