Subatomic particles whizz around a 17-mile underground track in Geneva, Switzerland. Every second, hundreds of millions of protons collide with each other, showering into even smaller short-term particles. Out of these perpetual interactions, only one in one billion will produce functional data. ...

Watch UO physicist–and IFS Director–Graham Kribs walk you through one of the seminal experiments that helped open the quantum age.

9 April 2025 || University Communications Quantum mechanics is a branch of physics that attempts to explain the behavior of matter and energy at their ...

12 December 2024

Gian Giudice is Head of CERN’s Theoretical Physics department

Source || Part 23 of the CERN70 Series

Advancements in fundamental knowledge have always been driven by a dialogue between theory and experiment. Theory sometimes opens up new avenues of exploration, which ...

28 November 2024

Source || Part 22 of the CERN70 Series

Rolf Heuer was CERN Director-General during an era when multiple open science initiatives were launched by the Organization

The values of open science have always been at the heart of CERN’s mission, ever since the Organization’s inception. ...

14 November 2024

Ugo Amaldi helped create a European network of cancer therapy centres using beams of ions, in particular carbon ions

Source || Part 21 of the CERN70 Series

Technology developed at CERN for accelerators and detectors has found many uses in areas beyond the field of ...

31 October 2024

Source || Part 20 of the CERN70 Series

Ask any member of the particle physics community where they were on 4 July 2012 and they won’t need to think too hard about it. The discovery of the Higgs boson was a milestone in the history of science, as evidenced by the ...

18 October 2024

Jürgen Schukraft joined CERN’s heavy-ion programme in 1986 and was the first spokesperson for the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider

Source || Part 19 of the CERN70 Series

On 7 November 2010, lead nuclei collided in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for the first time. ...

4 October 2024

Lyn Evans was Project Leader for the Large Hadron Collider

Source || Part 18 of the CERN70 Series

The beginning of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) dates back to the early 1980s. CERN’s major accelerator, the Large Electron Positron Collider (LEP), was still in its study ...

20 September 2024

Lucio Rossi led the group responsible for superconducting magnets for the LHC

Source || Part 17 of the CERN70 Series

The LHC, the largest superconducting machine in the world, demonstrates how particle physics and CERN have been a driving force in the development of ...

3 September 2024

Walter Oelert led the team of researchers who produced the world’s first atoms of antihydrogen in 1995

Source || Part 16 of the CERN70 Series

For each particle, there exists an antiparticle with opposite properties, in particular electric charge. This has been well established, ...