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.

Located at CERN’s North Area and receiving beams from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), the NA64 and NA62 experiments search for dark matter, complementing searches at the LHC, as they cover a ...

The Slovenian flag was raised today at a ceremony held at CERN to mark the country’s accession as CERN’s 25th Member State. The ceremony was attended by the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Robert Golob, ...

In 2026, CERN has received funding for 13 new projects from the European Union’s R&D programme Horizon Europe, following applications to Research Infrastructures calls in 2025. All these projects will ...

A candidate collision event for a pair of Higgs bosons, with one boson decaying into two photons and the other into a pair of bottom quarks. The two particle jets originating from the bottom quarks ...

In a paper published in Physical Review Journals, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of lead into gold in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Transforming the ...

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 ...

What if the world’s largest particle accelerator could also heat homes? CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is doing just that, thanks to a new heat exchange system. Since mid-January, heat recovered ...

The year-end technical stop (YETS) activities in the accelerator complex’s first machines are nearing completion, but in the LHC about six weeks of work still lie ahead of us before the machine is ...

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 ...

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 ...

A flagship CERN open science programme – the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP 3) – celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2024. It is a one-of-a-kind ...