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The basics of a boson

In this animated lesson for TED-Ed, CERN physicists David Barney and Steven Goldfarb use the Socratic method to explain the Higgs boson

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Physics
15 May, 2013
Physics
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15 May, 2013

Orbital welding on the Large Hadron Collider

Watch Said Atieh of Engineering department explain some of the unique challenges of welding on the LHC

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Engineering
15 May, 2013

A fundamental property of the rarest element on Earth

An international team of physicists at ISOLDE have for the first time measured the ionization potential of the rare radioactive element astatine

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Experiments
14 May, 2013

What happened to antimatter?

Where is the missing antimatter? CERN scientist Rolf Landua teams up with TED-Ed animators to explain the disparity that allows us to exist

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At CERN
13 May, 2013
At CERN
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13 May, 2013

Call for volunteers for the Passeport Big Bang inauguration

Please sign up before 15 May to help with this project

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At CERN
13 May, 2013

LHCb first results from proton-lead run

At the "Workshop on proton-nucleus collisions at the LHC" in Trento, Italy, the LHCb collaboration discussed first results from the proton-lead run

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Experiments
10 May, 2013
Experiments
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10 May, 2013

First observations of short-lived pear-shaped atomic nuclei

An international team at the ISOLDE radioactive-beam facility at CERN has shown that some atomic nuclei can assume asymmetric, "pear" shapes

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Experiments
08 May, 2013

CERN Data Centre expands

A new computer room housing 90 new racks of servers forms a significant expansion of the CERN Data Centre

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Computing
08 May, 2013
Computing
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08 May, 2013

CERN and OpenAIREplus launch European research repository

Zenodo, hosted at CERN, will researchers to share publications and supporting data more easily

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Computing
08 May, 2013

Lab-made liquid may cause strange particle behaviour

A new result from the CMS collaboration takes a step toward revealing the origin of the mysterious "ridge effect"

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Accelerators
08 May, 2013