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CERN did something truly quantum with antimatter that was never pulled off before

Sayan Sen — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:30:01 +0000

Scientists at CERN achieved an unprecedented quantum physics breakthrough by manipulating antimatter in a way never successfully demonstrated before. Read more...

From Selfies to Science: CERN turns your everyday phone cameras into Antimatter detectors

Sayan Sen — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:26:01 +0000

The really smart scientists over at CERN are helping build super-high resolution cameras to study antimatter/ Read more...

Scientists at CERN and Fermilab are using this Linux distro after Scientific Linux retired

Paul Hill — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 10:54:02 +0000

Have you ever wondered what operating systems are used by big wig scientists at CERN and Fermilab? They used to use Scientific Linux, but that was retired. Here's what they use now. Read more...

CERN develops 3D-printed plastic scintillators for neutrino detectors

Ather Fawaz — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 04:58:01 +0000

In an international collaboration, CERN has 3D-printed plastic scintillators for neutrino oscillation experiments. The technique is precise and cost-effective. Results demonstrate proof of concept. Read more...

CERN contributes 10,000 computer cores to the Folding at Home project

Ather Fawaz — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 06:58:01 +0000

CERN has contributed 10,000 computer cores from its main data center to the Folding@home project becoming the 87th biggest contributor. The project now has almost 2.5 exaFLOPS of computing power. Read more...

Neural networks are now being used to track exotic particles at CERN

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:30:02 +0000

Researchers have trained an artificial neural network to identify atypical and ephemeral experimental signatures resulting from proton-proton collisions inside the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Read more...

The LHC has just been connected to the High-Luminosity LHC, and other updates from CERN

Ather Fawaz — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 17:18:01 +0000

Workers have just connected the LHC to its successor, the High-Luminosity LHC. However, the end of Long Shutdown 2 has been extended to May 2021 and Run 3 has been extended by one year to 2024. Read more...

CERN Open Days is a chance to witness the world of particle accelerators

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 04:44:01 +0000

Leveraging the downtime for the Large Hadron Collider, the general public will be able to explore the laboratory and partake in over 150 activities planned by CERN on 14 and 15 September. Read more...

CERN is looking to adopt open source software because Microsoft is too expensive

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 03:04:01 +0000

The organisation behind the world's largest particle accelerator has launched the Microsoft Alternatives project as it looks to move away from Microsoft software in favour of open source alternatives. Read more...

This week in science: Should our universe exist?

Gabriel Nunes — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 00:06:01 +0000

Based on recent measurements of the magnetic moment of the antiproton, physicists conclude that our universe should not exist with more experiments underway; plus Einstein's theory on happiness. Read more...

This week in science: A statue-like dinosaur fossil, a new accelerator at CERN, and more

Gabriel Nunes — Mon, 15 May 2017 04:48:01 +0000

This week an incredibly well-preserved nodosaur fossil was unveiled, a new accelerator was launched at CERN, SpaceX tested a Falcon Heavy rocket, and Microsoft Research revealed Project Emma. Read more...

This week in science: first SpaceX military launch for the US, LHC restarted, and more

Gabriel Nunes — Sun, 07 May 2017 19:20:01 +0000

SpaceX has launched its first rocket carrying a classified military payload for the US, an astronomer suggests we should search for extinct alien life in our solar system, and the LHC has restarted. Read more...

CERN recreates first web page

Ben Buffone — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:42:05 +0000

Scientists at the world's most advanced physics laboratory, CERN, have embarked on a project that seeks to preserve the original hardware and software used to give birth to the World Wide Web. Read more...

First website preserved (sort of) by CERN

John Callaham — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:44:39 +0000

A copy of the first website ever created has been preserved by CERN, the organization where the first web page was launched on a server way back in 1991. The preserved page comes from 1992. Read more...