The direct discovery of the W and Z bosons at the SppS in 1983 provided solid experimental support for the existence of the Higgs boson

In July 2022, a whole year devoted to celebrating basic sciences for sustainable development gets under way

As the various breakthroughs of the 1970s gradually consolidated the Standard Model, the Brout–Englert–Higgs field and its boson emerged as the most promising theoretical model to explain the origin of mass

The Higgs boson holds the record (48 years) among elementary particles for the time between prediction and discovery, going from an esoteric technicality to commanding the global spotlight at the world’s most powerful collider

This week marks the 50th anniversary of collisions in CERN’s Intersecting Storage Rings, the first hadron collider ever built

Steven Weinberg’s iconic paper, A Model of Leptons, was published in 1967 and determined the direction for high-energy particle physics research

2016 has been a year of great highlights for CERN and its experiments, this video looks back on the headlines

Cecilia Jarlskog looks at CERN Theory’s roots, and recalls some interactions with the organization

Today marks 100 years since Victor Hess made last of series of balloon flights leading to the discovery of cosmic rays