Première détection de décharges électriques sur Mars a.baudier mer 26/11/2025 – 16:48 –A +A Les dust devils et tempêtes de poussière martiennes génèrent des décharges électriques, confirmées pour la première fois par l’analyse d’enregistrement sonores du microphone SuperCam du rover Perseverance.            Ces décharges dans l… © Nicolas Sarter

Le CNRS et France Universités révèlent les lauréats 2025 des médailles de la médiation scientifique a.baudier mer 26/11/2025 – 17:17 –A +A Pour sa quatrième édition, les médailles de la médiation scientifique se réinventent : France Universités et le CNRS unissent leurs forces pour distinguer des femmes et des hommes qui, par leur créativité et

CERN showcases projects with environmental applications Group photo taken at the CERN for Climate Action Day (Image: CERN) CERN researchers contribute to many projects that aim to find technological solutions to environmental problems, from fusion power to detecting marine plastic pollution from space, distributing renewable energyand developing clean aviation. These collaborations with academic and industrial partners

When failure is good news “We tried to break it – and failed.” For several hours, the IT teams subjected the software managing CERN’s IT workload to a stress test, sending a huge number of tasks to be processed in an attempt to crash the system … without success. “Even if this was just a

Celebrating 25 years of service to CERN in 2025 Staff members who marked 25 years of service to CERN in 2025 were invited by the Director-General to the traditional ceremony held in their honour on 13 October 2025. The photos from the ceremony and the list of the 66 staff members concerned can be viewed

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