All change for Room C 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 course, a new display of photographs has been installed to highlight the positive societal impact of CERN technologies and […]

Celebrating two decades of global scientific computing 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 (WLCG), which is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Originally conceived to handle the unprecedented data volumes of the

CERN hits one exabyte of stored experimental data from the LHC 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 second. By collecting information about the ensuing particle showers, physicists can test the

A cryogenic winter for tomorrow’s accelerator Behind every particle collision generated at the Large Hadron Collider is a multitude of technical feats. One of these is refrigeration on an industrial scale. To guide the particles, the thousands of superconducting magnets in the accelerator must be cooled to a temperature of close to absolute zero. This

Leaders in quantum technology connect at CERN 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 brought together more than 100 participants and featured nine panels as well as keynote speeches from industry leaders,

CERN highlights in 2025 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 world of particles. In 2025, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) delivered a record amount of data and collided oxygen and

CERN wishes you a happy 2026 This video is available on YouTube. 2026 promises to be an exciting year for CERN, starting with new leadership. British physicist Mark Thomson became Director-General of the Laboratory on 1 January 2026. His new management team is now in place to ensure CERN’s continued excellence in fundamental science and

Superconductors, an opportunity for science and society Superconductive technologies have long been central to particle physics, but they have also repeatedly moved beyond the laboratory, most notably with the emergence of magnetic resonance imaging scanners (MRI), demonstrating how breakthroughs in fundamental research can benefit society. Today, as global energy, climate and healthcare pressures grow, the

ALICE welcomes its new management ALICE enters the new year with a new management team, ready to steer the collaboration through a key period of detector operation, data analysis and major upgrades. From 1 January 2026 onward, Kai Schweda, senior scientist at the GSI Helmholtz Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, has assumed the role of ALICE