CLOUD experiment #AtCERN uncovers a major new source of marine aerosol particles 🌊 Find out more: home.cern/cloud-experiment-uncovers-a-major-new-source-of-marine-aerosol-particles/

CERN’s socio-economic contributions as a global research hub 🌍 The new study “Assessment of the socio-economic benefits of CERN activities” highlights the scientific, technological, economic and societal benefits generated by CERN over the past 25 years. Find out more: home.cern/new-study-hi...

New study highlights #CERN’s socio-economic contributions as a global research hub 🌍 📸 CERN, Bioimaging and Axiom Space Find out more: home.cern/new-study-highlights-cerns-socio-economic-contributions-as-a-global-research-hub/

François Englert (1932 – 2026) It is with great sadness that we announce that Belgian theoretical physicist, François Englert, has passed away at the age of 93. Read more: home.cern/francois-eng...

The @lhcb.bsky.social discovers the final missing member of a doubly charmed particle family 💫 The new particle, composed of one strange quark and two charm quarks, completes a set of particles first theorised over half a century ago. Find out more: home.cern/lhcb-discove...

#ThrowbackThursday to September 1979, when CERN celebrated its 25th anniversary 🎉 During the first 25 years (1954–1979), several groundbreaking accelerators were built #AtCERN which allowed to make discoveries that later helped establish the modern #StandardModel of particle physics.

Happy 50th anniversary SPS 🎉 #OnThisDay we celebrate the 50th anniversary since the first beam circulated in the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), which is today the second-largest machine in CERN’s accelerator complex Find out more: home.cern/science/accelerators/super-proton-synchrotron/

Arts at CERN and Pro Helvetia announce the artists selected for the 2026 Connect India residency 💫 Find out more: home.cern/arts-at-cern...

Final collisions, new horizons 💫 After 12 years in operation, a record amount of data and thousands of scientific results, the Large Hadron Collider is taking a break. It will be transformed into the #HiLumi LHC, an even more powerful machine. Find out more: home.cern/final-collis...

Issue 78 is out! 🎉 From programmes that promote ocean literacy and gender equality in STEM to epigenetics, virus research, tides, and textile analysis, discover inspiring articles, science explainers, and step-by-step teaching guides for school! Dive right in: scienceinschool.org/issue/issue-...

CERN leads a project to make EU scientific data more accessible The EU-funded HORIZON-ZEN+ project is developing AI tools to improve the increasingly popular EU Open Research Repository. Find out more: lnkd.in/dXH-RQAZ #OpenScience

Join scientists, live from the CERN Control Centre, as the Large Hadron Collider (#LHC) delivers its last collisions to its experiments before it is transformed into a high luminosity machine. #HiLumiLHC 📍LIVE on Facebook & YouTube 📆 11 June, 5:00 PM CEST 🔗 youtube.com/live/oVwzDcj...

EMBL is coordinating STARDAST, a new €8M Horizon Europe project to strengthen data stewardship careers, FAIR data practices, and open science across Europe. Read more: www.embl.org/news/connect... @cern.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social

ALICE’s upgraded detector showcases its beauty ✨ The ALICE Collaboration has performed the first #LHC measurement of beauty-quark production in a previously unexplored momentum range. Find out more: home.cern/alices-upgra...

The May/June edition of #CERNCourier reports on how cosmic filaments are opening a new window on the nature of #DarkMatter, on the physics facilities that keep radiopharmaceuticals in supply, and much more. Read more: cerncourier.com

Students from Bangladesh, India, Türkiye, the UK and the USA win the 13th edition of Beamline for Schools 🏆 Find out more: home.cern/students-fro...

Getting under the skin of atomic nuclei using #antimatter The AEgIS Collaboration lays the groundwork for a new tool to probe the outer periphery of atomic nuclei. Find out more: home.cern/getting-unde...

This week, a new #HeavyIon run began at the Large Hadron Collider, recreating the extreme conditions of the early #Universe. Here we see event-displays from the LHC experiments: @atlasexperiment.bsky.social, @cmsexperiment.bsky.social, ALICE Experiment, @lhcb.bsky.social.

ALPHA measures tiny energy gap in antimatter with improved precision 💫 The ALPHA Collaboration has increased the precision of its measurement of the ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen by two orders of magnitude. Find out more: home.cern/alpha-measur...

What’s going on at the #LHC? 🤔 Hear from Silvia Pisano, Run Coordinator at the ALICE Experiment, about this year’s heavy-ion run at the LHC, and what’s happening after it. #AskAPhysicist #LHCRun3

It’s a wrap for proton–proton collisions at the #LHC💫 Here we see the event displays of the last proton collisions, recorded in May by the CERN experiments: @atlasexperiment.bsky.social @cmsexperiment.bsky.social, ALICE and @lhcb.bsky.social. Experiments now prepare for lead-ion collisions.

ATLAS observes new composite particle The ATLAS Collaboration reports the first observation of the Bc*+ meson, an excited counterpart of a particle made up of a charm quark and a bottom antiquark. 🔗Find out more: home.cern/atlas-observ... @atlasexperiment.bsky.social

The CERN Council decided to update the European Strategy for Particle Physics #ESPP 🔗Find out more: home.cern/the-cern-cou... #FrontlinePhysics

Student writing contest: Have a look at our AI guides! The student guide helps students reflect on how to use AI responsibly during the writing process. The teacher guide includes key discussion points and helpful resource links for supporting students. 🖥️ scienceinschool.org/article/2026... #EduSky

The Physics Forecast 🌥️ At CERN’s #LHC, high-energy beams collide in our giant detectors, generating vast amounts of data. This data is visualized through event displays. What do these displays reveal? Dilia from @atlasexperiment.bsky.social decodes one. Learn more: home.cern/cloudy-with-...

The public consultation process for the Future Circular Collider (FCC) project begins in Switzerland and France 🇨🇭🇫🇷 These four months of exchanges and dialogue with the public are part of the preparations for a final decision on the project. 🔗 Find out more: home.cern/le-processus...

Smarter decisions at the speed of collisions 💫 Machine learning is reshaping how the @atlasexperiment.bsky.social and @cmsexperiment.bsky.social filter collisions in real time Find out more: home.cern/experiments/...

𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿: 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 Join our panel of leading researchers for a SC4RC public webinar to explore the environmental impact of large-scale computing and solutions for a more sustainable future. Join live: www.youtube.com/live/JQbdZ7m... #sc4rc #greencomputing

Arts at CERN and the Nobel Prize Museum are pleased to announce that Lithuanian artist Emilija Škarnulytė has been selected as the recipient of the Collide Stockholm residency award. 🔗 home.cern/news/news/cern/arts-cern-and-nobel-prize-museum-announce-collide-stockholm-international-residency

CERN’s Medipix3 technology on track to help more patients A portable photon-counting CT scanner developed using CERN’s Medipix3 technology receives FDA clearance, paving the way for broader clinical adoption. Find out more: home.cern/news/news/kn...

The @atlasexperiment.bsky.social sets record limits on Higgs boson’s self-interaction The result is based on over 300 inverse femtobarns of proton–proton collision data, which is equivalent to 30 000 trillion collisions Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ph...

ATLAS acts as a cosmic-ray laboratory ✨ The @atlasexperiment.bsky.social reports its first measurement of proton–oxygen collisions at the #LHC, which recreate cosmic-ray interactions with Earth’s atmosphere. Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ph...

BIG NEWS! ✏️✨ We are handing the pen to students. We are launching a student writing contest, with the three winning articles to be published in Science in School (+ additional prizes). Find all the details here: scienceinschool.org/article/2026...

Muon g-2 Experiment Pioneers Win Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Recognition honors experiments and scientific collaborations at three institutions that explored the subtle wobble of a subatomic particle Find out more: home.cern/news/press-r...

CMS looks deep inside quarks 🔎 The CMS Collaboration (@cmsexperiment.bsky.social) has probed deep inside quarks to search for potential building blocks within them. Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ph...

Issue 77 is out – it's a very special edition! 🎉 Every article comes directly from one of our funders: eight of Europe’s largest research facilities! Running through all articles like a golden thread is one theme: light. Dive right in: scienceinschool.org/issue/issue-... #EduSky

Chile becomes an Associate Member State of CERN 🇨🇱 Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ce...

At 00:35 CEST today, the Artemis II mission successfully launched, marking the first human journey to the Moon since 1972. Six Timepix chips developed #AtCERN will measure the radiation environment inside the spacecraft that will orbit the Moon during @NASA’s Artemis II mission.

CERN levels up with new superconducting karts 🏎️ The race is on to test new vehicles in the underground Large Hadron Collider tunnel, ahead of major works starting this summer. Find out more about the new superconducting karts: home.cern/news/news/en...

The questions that matter: #Antimatter edition On 24 March, a team of scientists from the BASE experiment at CERN successfully transported a trap filled with antiprotons in a truck across the Laboratory’s main site.

Earlier this week, a team of scientists from the BASE experiment #AtCERN succeeded in transporting antiprotons in a truck across the Laboratory’s main site. Christian Smorra explains how the BASE-STEP portable antiproton trap captures and stores antiprotons.

CMS strengthens the case for toponium A new independent measurement by the @cmsexperiment.bsky.social at the #LHC is consistent with the existence of the most massive composite particle ever observed, the momentary union of a top quark and its antiquark. Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ph...

CERN to host Europe’s flagship open access publishing platform Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ce...

Antimatter on the move 🚛 Today, in a world first, a team of scientists from the BASE experiment #AtCERN succeeded in transporting antiprotons in a truck across the Laboratory’s main site. Watch the full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzBP...

BASE experiment at CERN succeeds in transporting antimatter The experiment successfully transported a trap filled with antiprotons across CERN’s main site, a remarkable first step towards delivering antimatter to other European laboratories. Find out more: home.cern/news/press-r...

ALICE sees new sign of primordial plasma in proton collisions The ALICE Collaboration takes a step further in addressing the question of whether a quark–gluon plasma can be formed in proton–proton and proton–nucleus collisions. Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ph...

ATLAS sets strong limits on #supersymmetry Using machine-learning techniques, the ATLAS Collaboration has searched deep for signs of particles that could help answer some of the greatest mysteries of physics Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ph... @atlasexperiment.bsky.social #LHC

The test stand for the #HiLumiLHC, the IT String, just hit its operating temperature: 1.9 Kelvin – only two degrees above the absolute zero, the coldest temperature possible. Find out more: home.cern/news/press-release/accelerators/hilumi-lhc-full-scale-tests-start

The LHCb Collaboration discovers new proton-like particle Composed of two charm quarks and one down quark, the doubly charmed particle is four times heavier than a proton. Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ex...

The future of physics 💫 Last week, Chiara, an accelerator physicist, took us to the CERN Control Centre (CCC) to explain the restart process for the Large Hadron Collider (#LHC).