CERN in the media from 3-9 November 2025

Published on November 12, 2025

Dear all,


Please find below the media monitoring report for the period 3-9 November 2025. These press cuttings have been selected from 1448 results identified by our media monitoring system.

Media coverage this week focused strongly on CERN’s scientific achievements. The first observation of single top quark production with W and Z bosons by CMS received broad international attention, as did ISOLDE’s new ion recycling trap, enabling the chemical reactivity analysis of the rarest and least understood elements.

Likewise, the experiment conducted by CERN researchers and the University of Oxford that recreated plasma fireballs using ultrarelativistic protons from the Super Proton Synchrotron attracted wide media interest. Coverage also referred to China’s decision to pause its Circular Electron Positron Collider project, following the CERN Courier publication, with references to CERN’s own plans for the Future Circular Collider (FCC).

Other mentions included reports on the Dijon-based company Geotec being selected to carry out the geotechnical drilling campaign for the FCC, while CERN’s heating network project in the local area continued to receive positive coverage for its environmental and community benefits.

We wish you a great week,

The Press Team

 
 

Online

Part of Ferney-Voltaire's households now heated with CERN energy • Voice of the Ain

... Translated Text: ...ferneysians. The heat network powered by heat recovery from the CERN particle accelerator has been operational since...

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Voix de l'ain - online - Nov 03, 2025

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First observation of single top quark production with W and Z bosons

...one of the four major experiments of the Large Hadron Collider. Credit: CERN "Because of its rarity and its similarity with the ttZ...

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Phys.org - Nov 03, 2025

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CERN detects an exceptional phenomenon that occurs "once in a thousand billion"

...English Translated Text: ...and billions of particle collisions, CERN researchers were able to spot a top quark formed at the same time...

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GEO - Nov 06, 2025

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CERN creates fireballs to explain the dominant force of the cosmos

... Translated Text: ...through entire galaxies, model the star winds, deflect cosmic rays and can influence the formation of cosmic...

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La Razón - Online - Nov 08, 2025

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The electrostatic trap of CERN "recycles" anions to illuminate the heaviest elements

...Text: ...team of researchers working at the ISLDE installation at CERN presents a new technique that could help discover chemistry...

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Issues.fr - Nov 03, 2025

 

Is China's 'God particle' quest over? World's largest collider project may be dropped

...Positron Collider (CEPC), designed to smash electrons and their antimatter counterparts to study Higgs bosons with unprecedented...

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EuropeSays - Nov 06, 2025