Professor Costas Fountas elected as next President of the CERN Council Last week, the CERN Council elected Professor Costas Fountas as its 25th President, for a period of one year, renewable twice, with a mandate starting on 1 January 2025. He will take over from Professor Eliezer Rabinovici, who concludes his term at the end of […]

Blowing out 70 candles: CERN celebrates seven decades of discoveries and looks ahead to a brilliant future of science and innovation Today, CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, is hosting a special high-level ceremony to celebrate its 70th anniversary, attended by 38 national delegations, including Heads of State and Government from Bulgaria, Italy, Latvia,

Particle physicists chart a course to the future Geneva, 11 October 2024. During its two hundred-and-eighteenth session, the CERN Council formally finalised the organisation of the European Strategy process by appointing the Physics Preparatory Group, whose aim will be to prepare the scientific contribution based on the input from the community. The European Strategy is

Le Conseil du CERN a désigné le physicien britannique Mark Thomson comme prochain directeur général de l’organisation. Son mandat de cinq ans débutera le 1er janvier 2026. Une carrière dévouée au CERN Thomson, professeur de physique expérimentale des particules à l’Université de Cambridge, a consacré une grande partie de sa carrière au CERN. Dans les

CLOUD experiment resolves puzzle of new aerosol particles in upper troposphere In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the CLOUD collaboration at CERN reveals a new source of atmospheric aerosol particles that could help scientists to refine climate models.  Aerosols are microscopic particles suspended in the atmosphere that arise from both natural sources and

Google a récemment déployé une nouvelle fonctionnalité pour son interface de recherche mobile, apportant une valeur ajoutée aux utilisateurs qui explorent le web. En cliquant sur un résultat de recherche et en revenant à la page de recherche, les utilisateurs sont désormais accueillis par une nouvelle section intitulée « Les gens recherchent également ». Suggestions personnalisées Cette

Google intended to discontinue Panoramio back in 2014, shortly after Google Maps Views was launched, but a lot of users complained and Panoramio continued to exist. Now Google announces that Panoramio will become read-only on November 4th and it’ll be shut down one year later, in November 2017. « Today, with photo upload tools in Google

Google has a special card that’s both a color picker and a color converter. For example, you can search for HEX color codes like #123456 and Google shows the color and converts it to other formats: RGB, HSV, HSL, CMYK.  Google’s card also shows up when you search for RGB values like rgb(255,0,255). The most interesting feature

I’m not sure if this is a new feature, but it must be pretty recent. Google Maps for Android lets you add home screen shortcuts to directions directly from the app. Just search for directions, tap the menu icon and pick « add route to Home screen ». This works best when you select the current location,