From performing detailed studies of the Higgs boson to demonstrating the first antimatter quantum bit and converting lead nuclei into gold nuclei, this year CERN further expanded our knowledge of the ...

The framework for former staff members active over retirement age has been updated to recognise continued contributions and clarify roles and expectations for all involved. The Retired Contributing ...

CERN’s strongest asset is its people. The many great accomplishments we presented in our final Directorate meeting on 16 December would not have been possible without your competence, dedication and ...

For the first time in CERN’s history, private donors (individuals and philanthropic foundations) have agreed to support a CERN flagship research project. Recently, a group of friends of CERN, ...

As 2025 draws to a close, so too does the CERN 25 by ’25 initiative, launched in 2021 to improve the gender and nationality ...

One exabyte of experimental data has now been gathered from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), marking a major milestone for CERN’s storage system. The LHC smashes billions of protons together every ...

Particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can reach temperatures over one hundred thousand times hotter than at ...

In November 2025, CERN hosted the Quantum Business Community (QBC) Summit, the annual gathering of the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC), of which CERN is an associate member. The event ...

Imagine a planetary computer capable of storing and processing hundreds of petabytes of data for the research needs of a worldwide community of scientists. This is the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid ...

Prominently placed in the Main Building, the Room C (61/1-009) meeting room is used for everything from strategic discussions to protocol visits. Now that the previous photo exhibition has run its ...

Next time you walk by Building 40, you’ll notice a sinuous hedge on the lawn that has been left to grow into a meadow, along ...

Originally created for the Cité des métiers, the exhibition “The Faces of CERN: People Advancing Science” will be displayed in CERN's Globe of Science and Innovation from December 17, 2025 to March 1, ...