CERN Timepix chips fly to the Moon At 00:35 CEST today, the Artemis II mission successfully launched, marking the first human journey to the Moon since 1972. During their ten-day journey aboard the Orion spacecraft, the four astronauts are expected to receive tens of millisieverts of radiation, more than ten times what most people experience in an […]
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Chile becomes an Associate Member State of CERN Effective 2 April 2026, Chile has become an Associate Member State of CERN. Its status entered into force following Chile’s ratification of the Associate Member State Agreement of May 2025 and its accession to the Protocol on CERN’s Privileges and Immunities. Chile is henceforth entitled to be
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European Commission Communiqué de presse Brussels, 01 Apr 2026 Aujourd’hui, la Commission européenne a pris des mesures préparatoires en vue de la mise en œuvre du prêt de soutien à l’Ukraine d’un montant de 90 milliards d’euros, qui vise à obtenir le soutien budgétaire nécessaire et à accélérer les marchés publics urgents dans le domaine
CERN levels up with new superconducting karts Following on from the robotic mice, CERN engineers have now developed a super-charged kart to enable workers to race through the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) underground tunnel during the upcoming major works, starting this summer. The karts promise a power boost to activities during this period, known as
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European Commission Communiqué de presse Brussels, 31 Mar 2026 La Commission européenne a ouvert une enquête approfondie afin de déterminer si l’aide publique que la France prévoit d’accorder pour la construction et l’explo…
13 new projects at CERN funded by Europe in 2026 CERN has 13 new projects funded by the European Union under the Research Infrastructures call of Horizon Europe. (Image: Lukasz Kobus / European Commission) In 2026, CERN has received funding for 13 new projects from the European Union’s R&D programme Horizon Europe, following applications to
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CERN community: celebrate spring with us and win chocolate Spring at ISOLDE – a previous winner of the CERN community photography competition (Image: Sanje Fenkart, CERN) As the weather gets warmer and Easter approaches, we are celebrating once more with the relaunch of our photography competition for the CERN community. Please send us your best
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CERN to host flagship European open access publishing platform Representation of the multidisciplinary nature of the ORE platform (Image: Santa Fe) Open Research Europe (ORE), a non-profit, open access scientific publishing platform, will be hosted at CERN as of autumn 2026. Initiated by the European Commission in 2021 and supported by a consortium of national
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Watch ESA astronaut Sławosz’s talk at CERN On Thursday 12 March, Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski came to CERN to give an insider’s view of his time on the International Space Station (ISS) from 26 June to 14 July 2025. Sławosz discussed the Ignis mission to the ISS, a Polish-led scientific and technical programme carried out in collaboration with the
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CERN to host Europe’s flagship open access publishing platform In an important step for open science, CERN has been selected to host a new phase of Open Research Europe (ORE), an initiative supported by the European Commission and a new funding consortium of European national funding agencies and research organisations. Aligned with the Action Plan
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