Streets at CERN have carried names since the mid-1960s. While many have been named after renowned figures – historically, mainly men – in science and related fields, others have retained more generic ...

Mis en service en 1957, le Synchrocyclotron de 600 MeV fut le premier accélérateur du CERN Le Synchrocyclotron (SC) fut le premier accélérateur du CERN. Il fut mis en service en 1957, et son énergie ...

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One of the greatest mysteries in physics is why our Universe is made almost entirely of the normal matter that forms us and everything we touch. Every matter particle has a corresponding antiparticle ...

Il y a 70 ans aujourd’hui, Clyde Cowan, Frederick Reines et leurs collègues concluaient un quart de siècle de recherches en publiant dans la revue Science un article annonçant qu’ils avaient détecté ...

Mark Thomson is a British experimental particle physicist who took up the role of CERN Director-General in January 2026. He earned his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1991 and joined CERN ...

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

At CERN, scientists from around the world explore the fundamental structure of the Universe. They use large and complex instruments to push the boundaries of human knowledge.

CERN physicists collide heavy ions to free quarks – recreating conditions that existed in the universe just after the Big Bang For a few millionths of a second, shortly after the Big Bang, the ...

The experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detect rare events on a daily basis, but some are exceptionally rare, such as this latest result from the CMS collaboration. For the first time, the ...

CERN is run by Member States, each of which has two official delegates to the CERN Council. One represents his or her government’s administration; the other represents national scientific interests.

Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey. Following its final physics run, the ...