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Katarina Anthony is a reporter in the CERN communications group.
The UNOSAT programme uses CERN computing power to map areas affected by Ebola
The SPS Operations team has been hard at work this month returning the machine to operation
On Wednesday, 10 September, the last NA62 straw tracker chamber was lowered into position in the experiment
Civil engineering has begun for the new AWAKE experiment, which looks to push the boundaries of particle acceleration
Experiments in the East Area received their first beams from the PS last week. Theirs is CERN's first accelerator-based physics since LS1 began
Grand-prize winner Eric Chen visited the laboratory last week
The LS1 team will be popping the champagne on Tuesday 27 May, celebrating the completion of the consolidation of the splices
After years of design, prototyping and manufacturing, the Linac4 Drift Tube Linac is being assembled at CERN
With Linac2 up and running, the countdown to beam in the LHC has begun: next in line is the PS Booster
As the LS1 draws to an end, teams move from installation projects to a phase of intense testing
At the Moriond conference CMS presented the best constraint yet of the Higgs boson “width”, a parameter that determines the particle’s lifetime
Across the PS complex teams have seen the opening of state-of-the-art access points in compliance with the highest nuclear safety standards