“Accelerating minds”: a TE department workshop to foster exchanges   On 3 June 2025, the CERN Technology (TE) department held the first-ever TE Graduate Workshop (TEGW2025), a full-day event designed to give TE graduates, fellows, students and trainees a chance to present their work to the whole department. The goals of the workshop were to […]

Accelerator Report: The LHC wraps up its first 2025 physics block The first proton–proton physics block of the 2025 LHC schedule concluded on 19 June at 6.00 a.m. It delivered 24 fb-1 of integrated luminosity to the ATLAS and CMS experiments, slightly below the forecast (26 fb-1) because of some time-consuming issues in the LHC. Indeed, while the

AMS upgrade passes qualification tests with flying colours The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02), a particle physics detector installed on the International Space Station (ISS), is being prepared for a major upgrade that will allow physicists to dig deeper into the mysterious behaviour of high-energy cosmic rays. Key components for the upgraded detector have been undergoing

Lift off: CERN engineer travels to space He’s wasting no time, to say the least. Selected in 2022 from over 22 500 applicants to be one of the 11 members of the astronaut reserve pool of the European Space Agency (ESA), Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, a CERN engineer, is already in space! Sławosz and his colleagues from the

Levitation: CERN’s new temporary exhibition explores space and time through glass art One of the artworks on display at the exhibition. (Image: CERN) From 13 June to 24 August 2025, you have the chance to visit Levitation, a captivating exhibition by the renowned Slovak glass artist Ján Zoričák. Following on from Curious Connections, Levitation, the

First-ever collisions of oxygen at the LHC LHC Page 1 today at 05:55 am. (Image: CERN) A major event at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC): the accelerator has just collided beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first time. From 29 June to 9 July, the LHC will switch to a special operations:

Slovenian flag raised at CERN The Slovenian flag was raised today at a ceremony held at CERN to mark the country’s accession as CERN’s 25th Member State. The ceremony was attended by the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Robert Golob, the President of the CERN Council, Costas Fountas, and the CERN Director-General, Fabiola Gianotti, together with representatives of

Computer Security: Internet of Damn Insecure Stupid Things The TN (Technical Network) v3.0 (see our previous article) is a necessary step forward in properly and thoroughly securing the control systems used at CERN for accelerator operation and facility management and for running our (digital) infrastructure of lifts, electricity, cooling and ventilation, heating, site security, etc. 

A.M./P.M. Planet Watching, Plus the Eagle Constellation Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look for Aquila the eagle. Skywatching Highlights All Month – Planet Visibility: Daily Highlights: July 1 – 7 – Mercury is relatively bright and easy to