CERN celebrates LGBTQ+ in STEM Day 18 November marks LGBTQ+ in STEM Day, which celebrates and highlights the work of and barriers facing LGBTQIA+ people in science, technology, engineering and maths. Alongside raising the Progress Pride flag on the Esplanade des Particules for the third year running, the CERN LGBTQ+ informal network organised a special […]

Novel beam sensors built to last A slender glass fibre no thicker than a human hair placed across a particle beam could improve accelerator monitoring. A team is testing the use of hollow-core optical fibres to measure the profile and position of the beams extracted from the Super Proton Synchrotron, CERN’s second-largest accelerator, which feeds

Breakthrough in antimatter production In a paper published today in Nature Communications, researchers at the ALPHA experiment at CERN’s Antimatter Factory report a new technique that allows them to produce over 15 000 antihydrogen atoms – the simplest form of atomic antimatter – in a matter of hours. “These numbers would have been considered science

FameLab international final 2025 at CERN Could you explain the Higgs Boson in only 3 minutes? Nine competitors representing nine countries — Australia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland, South Africa, Switzerland and the United Kingdom — will, on the 25 of November 2025 at 20h00 CET, in Science Gateway. rise to the challenge for the title of “World’s Best Science

Computer Security: Password evolutions Following the successful deployment of two-factor authentication (2FA) to more than 42 000 CERN accounts – both personal “primary accounts” and supplementary “secondary accounts” – one final step to ensure full compliance with the recommendations of the 2023 audit on CERN’s cybersecurity remains. The minimum required password length and complexity rules will

CERN welcomes elected representatives of Geneva communes On 7 and 8 October and 12 November, Science Gateway hosted elected representatives of the administrative and municipal councils of communes within the Canton of Geneva. The aim of this brand new initiative was to introduce the new officials, elected during the Swiss local elections in spring 2025,

HIE-ISOLDE: 10 years, 10 highlights The HIE-ISOLDE accelerator in 2016. (Image: CERN) The Isotope Separator On-Line facility (ISOLDE) directs a proton beam from the Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB) onto specially developed thick targets, producing low-energy beams of radioactive nuclei – those with too many or too few neutrons to be stable. These beams can be further

In this Oct. 20, 2025, photo, NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft with its launch abort system is stacked atop the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Orion will carry NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut

The NASA Science Activation program’s PLANETS (Planetary Learning that Advances the Nexus of Engineering, Technology, and Science) project, led by Northern Arizona University (NAU), is pleased to announce the official launch of three free out-of-school (OST) time units that give all learners in grades 3-5 and 6-8 the chance to do real planetary science and