Jan 6, 2025 · CERN wishes you a happy 2025 as we look forward to a year of world-class research, uniting people from all over the world to push the frontiers of science and technology for the benefit of all. Welcome to the Quantum Year. The United Nations has declared 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, celebrating a century of research and innovation in the field.

6 days ago · CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works.

The World Wide Web was invented by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 while working at CERN

Sep 10, 2008 · The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.It first started up on 10 September 2008, and remains the latest addition to CERN’s accelerator complex.The LHC consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way.

On Friday 5 April, at 6.25 p.m., the LHC Engineer-in-Charge at the CERN Control Centre (CCC) announced that stable beams were back in the Large Hadron Collider, marking the official start of the 2024 physics data-taking season. The third year of LHC Run 3 promises six months of 13.6 TeV proton collisions at an even higher luminosity than before, meaning more collisions for the experiments to ...

Feb 5, 2025 · CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works.

Nov 6, 2024 · Today, the CERN Council selected British physicist Mark Thomson as the Organization’s next Director-General. The appointment will be formalised at the December session of the Council and Professor Thomson’s five-year mandate will begin on 1 January 2026. “Congratulations to Professor Mark Thomson on his selection as the next CERN Director-General from January 2026,” said CERN’s ...

The theories and discoveries of thousands of physicists since the 1930s have resulted in a remarkable insight into the fundamental structure of matter: everything in the universe is found to be made from a few basic building blocks called fundamental particles, governed by four fundamental forces.

CERN’s experimental programme has consisted of hundreds of experiments spanning decades. Among these were pioneering experiments for electroweak physics, a branch of physics that unifies the electromagnetic and weak fundamental forces.In 1958, an experiment at the Synchrocyclotron discovered a rare pion decay that spread CERN’s name around the world.

Dec 20, 2024 · 2024 holds special significance for CERN, as it celebrated its 70th anniversary. To mark this major milestone, the Organization held a series of public events in the CERN Science Gateway around the overarching themes: Unveiling the Universe, Exploring Farther: Machines for New Knowledge, Virtuous Circle of Knowledge and …