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The 2026 Global Innovation Index puts the spotlight on CERN Venture Connect, a programme that connects entrepreneurs with CERN technologies, experts, and partners to turn scientific innovation into real-world solutionsWritten by Daniela Antonio01 October, 2026 The Global Innovation Index (GII) looks at innovation across 139 economies using 79 indicators and asks how economies can turn scientific b

The detection of high-energy neutrinos from space has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in PhysicsWritten by Rory Harris06 October, 2026  The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen for his contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which discovered high-energy neutrinos coming from far beyond our Solar System. This work is paving the way for a new generation of obse

A reimagining of Resonance invites Geneva-based artists and artist collectives to submit proposals that explore the intersection of art, science and technology  Arts at CERN, the City of Geneva and the Republic and Canton of Geneva are pleased to announce the launch of the Grand Prix Resonance, the third year of the Resonance residency programme.Resonance is a fully funded two-month residency at C

The upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider is expected to return nearly twice its cost to societyIn 1931, Paul Dirac predicted a particle with the same mass as the electron and the opposite charge. This particle, the “positron”, was observed the following year, in a cloud-chamber photograph taken by Carl Anderson. Of course, neither envisaged any medical applications of the discovery. But, today, PE

Work has begun to disconnect the focusing magnets on either side of the ATLAS and CMS experiments, a key step on the road to the HiLumi LHCThe 27 km circumference of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) contains thousands of magnets of different types – dipoles, quadrupoles, sextupoles, octupoles, decapoles, etc. – which each play a very specific role. Among them are the inner triplets: sets of three q

The mind-bending phenomenon is now becoming evident in a new particleQuantum entanglement is certainly one of the stranger concepts to have emerged from the melting pot of 20th-century physics. Many great physicists, including Einstein, struggled to accept that the phenomenon could be real but, for decades now, the number of examples demonstrating it has been increasing. And, recently, the ATLAS a

The NA64 experiment at CERN has searched for dark matter since 2016 by looking for energy that goes missing when particles strike its detectorIn particle physics, energy is never lost. When particles collide or decay, all the initial energy they carry must be conserved in the resulting products, and a shortfall signals that something has escaped unseen. It was the energy missing from radioactive d

Researchers set new constraints on the production rate of double-Higgs bosons, providing insight into how the Higgs boson interacts with itselfFinding one Higgs boson was hard enough, but physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are hunting for something even more elusive: pairs of Higgs bosons. At the recent International Conference on High Energy Physics 2026, the ATLAS and CMS Collaboratio

An experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland used novel technologies to demonstrate the feasibility of the positron-source concept for the proposed Future Circular Collider at CERNAn experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland has successfully produced, captured and transported positrons using a novel system developed for CERN’s proposed Future Circular Collider (

A new layer of silicon sensors is being tested at CERN before being sent to the International Space StationSuspended in the path of a proton beam from CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) was an unusual target: a large silicon tracker destined for space. Known as “Layer-0”, this new layer of silicon sensors will be mounted on top of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)  while it orbits Earth on

The first experimental determination of the neutron capture of niobium-94 by n_TOF researchers marks a milestone in efforts to understand the composition of ancient stardust Niobium-94, an isotope of niobium with 41 protons and 53 neutrons, is a critical crossroads in the complex nuclear processes that forge heavy elements under the intense pressures and temperatures of dying stars. Writing in Phy

All four main LHC experiments have found new signs that oxygen and neon collisions may create the extreme state of matter that existed during the first microseconds after the Big BangOne year on from the first-ever collisions of oxygen at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the main LHC Collaborations – ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb – have each reported signs of the state of matter known as quark–gluon

The new generation of quadrupole magnets at the IT String test facility has reached its nominal current, validating key technologies for the High-Luminosity LHCThe test bench for the High-Luminosity LHC, the IT (Inner Triplet) String facility, has reached a major milestone. On 8 July, its new quadrupole magnets – known as the inner triplet magnets – successfully reached their nominal operating cur

Theorised in 1930 and discovered in 1956, the elusive neutrino still keeps many of its secrets, inspiring research efforts at CERN and around the worldSeventy years ago today, Clyde Cowan, Frederick Reines and their colleagues closed a quarter-century hunt with a paper in Science, having caught neutrinos streaming out of a nuclear reactor in South Carolina. The search had begun in December 1930, w

The CMS experiment uses its largest sample of beauty mesons to date to perform a high-precision test of subtle differences between matter and antimatterOne 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 with the same mass but the opposite charge and,

The LHCb Collaboration has found a new particle consisting of one strange quark and two charm quarks. With this finding, the Collaboration has discovered the final member of a family of doubly charmed baryons – particles made up of two charm quarks and one other quark – and closes a chapter of a story that stretches back more than sixty years. Quarks are basic building blocks of matter. There are

Swiss-based artist Marie Matusz and Indian artist Moonis Ahmad Shah have been selected for the latest edition of the Connect India dual residencyLaunched in 2021 by Arts at CERN and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Connect has established itself as a key platform for artistic experimentation in connection with fundamental science. The programme continues its mission of fostering meaningful dia

After 12 years in operation, a record amount of data and thousands of scientific results, the LHC is taking a break. It will be transformed into the HiLumi LHC, a better-performing machineWritten by Corinne Pralavorio In the early hours of Sunday, 14 June, the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) had their last hurrah. In the control rooms of ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb – the four major e

At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), protons travel around the ring at almost the speed of light before colliding to release energy that transforms into many particles, including those containing beauty quarks. As reported in a recent paper,  the ALICE Collaboration has made a new measurement of the production of neutral beauty mesons, particles made of a beauty antiquark and a down quark. For the

The winners of the 13th edition of the Beamline for Schools (BL4S) competition have been selected. BL4S is a physics competition that was initiated by CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, and is open to secondary school pupils from all around the world. Participants are invited to submit a proposal for a physics experiment to be undertaken at the beamline of a particle accelerator,