The Standard Model explains how the basic building blocks of matter interact, governed by four fundamental forces. The theories and discoveries of thousands of physicists since the 1930s have resulted ...

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 ...

The cosmic microwave background. Charm. The Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism. CP violation. Colour. 1964 was a remarkable year for invention and discovery . The story of quarkonia began one year earlier, ...

In July 2025, LHC injected for the first time Oxygen and Neon. Motivated by physics questions of the heavy-ion and cosmic-ray community, Oxygen-Oxygen, Neon-Neon and proton-Oxygen collisions took ...

Our Media and Press Relations team is the main point of contact for press. We disseminate CERN’s key messages and official communications to the world’s media, as well as interpret press coverage. If ...

La nouvelle saison culturelle du CERN, intitulée Génération Higgs, est consacrée à la jeunesse, moteur de curiosité, de créativité et d'innovation. Le nom de cette nouvelle saison fait poétiquement ré ...

CERN’s new cultural season, Generation Higgs, is dedicated to youth as a driving force of curiosity, creativity and innovation. More specifically, the name is a poetic reference to students, doctoral ...

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. They use the world's largest and most complex scientific ...

Bus line no. 66 (Thoiry Centre commercial <-> Geneva Airport) provides a regular daily service to Prévessin-CERN, passing through Saint-Genis Porte de France.

Measurements in fundamental physics are becoming increasingly difficult. In particular, many high-precision measurements are now dealing with the intrinsic quantum mechanical noise of the detectors ...

September 2025 marks a first for CERN: our very own Mobility Week! For five days, synchronised with the European Commission’s campaign to raise awareness of sustainable urban mobility, the CERN ...

Du 15 au 19 septembre, le CERN organise pour la première fois sa propre semaine de la mobilité ! Pendant cinq jours, parallèlement à la campagne de sensibilisation de la Commission européenne sur la m ...