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CERN Council declares its intention to terminate cooperation agreements with Russia and Belarus at their expiration dates in 2024

Statement by the CERN Council: At its 208th meeting yesterday, the CERN Council reiterated its denunciation of the continuing illegal military invasion of Ukraine by the Russian F...

Seeing Sparks!: CERN’s first serendipity forum on future intelligence

The upcoming first edition of Sparks!, which will be held 17-18 September, adopts the theme of future intelligence, and paves the way for two more pilot events in the lead up towar...

Latvia to join CERN as an Associate Member State

Representatives of CERN and the Republic of Latvia gathered in a virtual ceremony today to sign an Agreement admitting Latvia into the Organization as an Associate Member State. ...

CERN – ALPHA cools antimatter using laser light for the first time

The ALPHA collaboration at CERN has succeeded in cooling down antihydrogen atoms – the simplest form of atomic antimatter – using laser light. The technique, known as laser cooling...

CERN – Estonia becomes an Associate Member of CERN in the pre-stage to Membership 

Today, CERN welcomes Estonia as an Associate Member State in the pre-stage to Membership, following official notification that the country has finalised its internal approval proce...

CERN announces new open data policy in support of open science

The four main LHC collaborations (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb) have unanimously endorsed a new open data policy for scientific experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)...

LHCb discovers a new type of tetraquark at CERN

The LHCb collaboration has observed a type of four-quark particle never seen before. The discovery, presented at a recent seminar at CERN and described in a paper posted today on t...

Particle physicists update strategy for the future of the field in Europe

The CERN Council announced that it had unanimously updated the strategy intended to guide the future of particle physics in Europe within the global landscape (the document is avai...

Estonia to become Associate Member in the Pre-Stage to Membership of CERN

The representatives of CERN and of the Government of Estonia signed an Agreement admitting Estonia as an Associate Member in the Pre-Stage to Membership of CERN. Due to the COVID...

Search for new physics through multiboson production

This media update is part of a series related to the 2020 Large Hadron Collider Physics conference, which took place from 25 to 30 May 2020. Originally planned to take place in Par...