Prime Minister of Italy visits CERN On 7 March, CERN welcomed Her Excellency Ms Giorgia Meloni, President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic. The Prime Minister and her delegation visited Point 1 of the LHC alongside CERN’s Director-General, Fabiola Gianotti; the Director for Finance and Human Resources, Raphaël Bello; the Director for […]

Accelerator Report: Recommissioning on track as the first beams progress through the complex In my previous report, I wrote that the first beam injection of 2025 into the PS Booster (PSB) was scheduled for 27 February. However, injection ultimately took place ahead of schedule, at around 11.30 a.m. on 26 February. Following this, the standalone

A silver coin for CERN (Image: Swissmint) On 13 March 2025, Swissmint issued a special « CERN » coin symbolising Swiss and global innovation. Swissmint is the company mandated by the Swiss Confederation to mint Switzerland’s standard coins, the ones you use for everyday payments. It also produces special-edition coins to mark important historical and cultural events

Particles are back in the accelerators At CERN, beams of particles are accelerated faster and faster, just like a relay race (where each runner is faster than the previous one). The LHC’s relay team has five runners, in order of appearance: Linear Accelerator 4 (Linac4), the Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB), the Proton Synchrotron (PS), the

CERN announces winner of third Collide Copenhagen residency Following an international open call launched in collaboration with Copenhagen Contemporary in November, Arts at CERN has announced that Polish artist Martyna Marciniak has won the third edition of the Collide Copenhagen residency.  Collide is a residency programme organised by Arts at CERN in partnership with a

March 17, 2025 NASA is heading back to the state capitol in March for Space Day Texas, a recognition of achievements throughout Texas and a look ahead to the impact future human space exploration has on the Lone Star state. The two-day schedule of events and exhibits focusing on exploration, astronauts, and science, technology, engineering,

NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement at Johnson Space Center offers Texas high school students a unique gateway to the world of space exploration through the High School Aerospace Scholars (HAS) program. This initiative gives juniors hands-on experience, working on projects that range from designing spacecraft to planning Mars missions.  Nearly 30 participants who have been

Depending on where you stand at the lunar South Pole, you may experience temperatures of 130°F (54°C) during sunlit periods, or as low as -334°F (-203°C) in a permanently shadowed region. Keeping crews comfortable and tools and vehicles operational in such extreme temperatures is a key challenge for engineers at Johnson Space Center working on

Astrophysics observations at ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths often probe the most dynamic aspects of the universe. However, the high energy of ultraviolet photons means that their interaction with the materials that make up an observing instrument are less efficient, resulting in low overall throughput. New approaches in the development of thin film coatings are addressing this