You may have seen recent news about a hantavirus outbreak linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius. As of 12 May 2026, 11 cases (nine confirmed, two probable) have been reported, including three deaths.

CERN released its second public Environment Report today. The report covers the years 2019-2020 when the accelerator complex was in its second long shutdown. The Organization took the opportunity of ...

The CMS collaboration at CERN has observed an unexpected feature in data produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which could point to the existence of the smallest composite particle yet observed ...

They won’t pinch you and you won’t find them on the beach. The name of the new radio-frequency crab cavities has nothing to do with their appearance and is merely illustrative of the effect they will ...

CERN and the Nobel Prize Museum are pleased to announce a new partnership through Collide, Arts at CERN’s flagship residency programme. Arts at CERN, the Laboratory’s arts programme, fosters ...

Three young entrepreneurs inspired by their time at CERN have launched ProtonMail, a secure email service with a sophisticated encryption system to deter would-be spies. Computer scientist Andy Yen ...

Check out this curated list of upcoming events for the CERN community ...

This letter originally appeared in the CERN Courier. The official story (CERN Courier March 2014 p37) is that they were invented by Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig, in that chronological order: Gell ...

This year has shown how decades of diligent groundwork lay the foundations for success, says CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer Many at CERN will remember 2013 as a year of major high-profile events, ...

The LHC is one of the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments. Its design and construction required more than 20 years of hard work and the unique expertise of a number of experts.

Though planetary exploration is conceptually far from fundamental physics, its technical demands require similar expertise. A good example is the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission, which ...

What do rope winding and giant pasta shapes have to do with particle physics? The answer is a new superconducting magnet prototype under development at CERN, lovingly named Fusillo because of its ...