With the roll-out of 2-factor authentication (2FA) for the CERN Single Sign-On (SSO) now concluded – thank you all for helping to secure CERN! – the next step required by the 2023 CERN cybersecurity ...

Cosmic rays are high-energy particles from outer space that strike Earth’s atmosphere, generating showers of secondary particles, such as muons, that can reach the planet’s surface. In recent years, ...

Today marks 50 years since the European Space Agency (ESA) was established and began serving Europe as its space agency. Spacecraft and particle accelerators both operate in harsh radiation ...

Have you recently arrived in the area and are looking for ways to help your spouse or partner settle in, find work or connect with others? You’re not alone – and now there’s a dedicated space to help ...

Square Van Hove, formerly the Microcosm Garden, has been beautifully reintegrated into the heart of CERN’s campus as part of ...

The reconfiguration of the cryogenic system, which is essential to provide the additional cryogenic capacity needed to run ...

From 1 to 11 mai 2025, CERN participated for the second year in a row at the Haute-Savoie Mont-Blanc International Fair in La ...

United by a shared vision, countries came together in Switzerland in the 1950s for science, but also for music. Whether you love it or loathe it, you can’t ignore the parallels that the Eurovision ...

One nice thing about the internet and the World Wide Web is their international nature, like CERN's international stance – communication without borders, information sharing without limits, connecting ...

Welcome to the digital edition of the May/June 2025 issue of CERN Courier.

Simulations of lattice gauge theories such as QCD or QED on classical computers have been remarkably successful over the past decades. However, the conventional methods relying on Monte Carlo sampling ...

Should a Higgs factory be a linear or circular electron–positron collider? Intriguingly, the key strategic technology may be the same in either case. Klystrons consume the majority of power at ...