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Monday 27 September 2021 Professor Eliezer Rabinovici elected as next President of the CERN Council » Professor Eliezer Rabinovici 24th President of the CERN Council (Image: CERN) Geneva, 24 September 2021. The CERN C...
Monday 16 August 2021 AI reveals how glucose helps the SARS-CoV-2 virus » Why do some people get sick and die from COVID-19 while others seem to be completely unaffected? EPFL’s Blue Brain Project...
Tuesday 10 August 2021 Latvia becomes Associate Member State of CERN » From left to right: Dr. sc. ing. Toms Torims, representative of Latvia at CERN (remotely), Dr Anita Muizniece Minister for...
Tuesday 22 June 2021 CERN lays first stone of Science Gateway » The first stone with the newly unveiled logo of the CERN Science Gateway. Its underlying concept is to anchor the project...
Thursday 17 June 2021 Mystery of Betelgeuse’s dip in brightness solved » These images, taken with the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, show the surface of the red supergiant s...
Tuesday 11 May 2021 Low temperature physics gives insight into turbulence » © Lancaster University 11 May 2021 - Lancaster University A novel technique for studying vortices in quantum fluid...
Thursday 15 April 2021 Latvia to join CERN as an Associate Member State » His Excellency Krišjānis Kariņš, Prime Minister Republic of Latvia and Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director-General, on the occ...
Tuesday 30 March 2021 Intriguing new result from the LHCb experiment at CERN » The LHCb results strengthen hints of a violation of lepton flavour universality Very rare decay of a beauty meson...
Monday 29 March 2021 Launch of Europe's largest astronomy network » The entire arc of Milky Way, full of gas and dust, star clusters and emission nebulae, is a luminous background for the ES...
Tuesday 16 March 2021 TOTEM and DØ collaborations announce odderon discovery » Part of the TOTEM installation in the LHC tunnel 220 m downstream from the CMS experiment / Une partie de l'installati...
Monday 8 March 2021 Most distant quasar with powerful radio jets discovered » With the help of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered and...
Thursday 18 February 2021 The time to take low-carbon transition risks seriously is now » EPFL, 11 February 2021 - A successful climate policy means preparing for unintended adverse impacts, such as job losses...
Tuesday 16 February 2021 Black Quantum Futurism wins this year’s Collide residency award » Black Quantum Futurism at Community Futures Lab (Philadelphie) - Image: Kenzi Foto Following an international open ca...
Tuesday 9 February 2021 Change of course on the journey to the island of stability » By means of a silicon detector system inside a vacuum chamber surrounded by new germanium detectors, the energy and time...
Monday 25 January 2021 (0 Comments - view/add) ESO - Puzzling six-exoplanet system with rhythmic movement challenges theories of how planets form » Using a combination of telescopes, including the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO’s VLT)...
Tuesday 12 January 2021 ESO - ALMA captures distant colliding galaxy dying out as it loses the ability to form stars » Artist’s representation of the ID2299 galaxy Galaxies begin to “die” when they stop forming stars, but until now ast...
Tuesday 15 December 2020 CERN announces new open data policy in support of open science » Geneva, 11 December 2020. The four main LHC collaborations (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb) have unanimously endorsed a new op...
Thursday 10 December 2020 ALICE collaboration opens avenue for high-precision studies of the strong force » An artist’s impression of the ALICE study of the interaction between the rarest of the hyperons, Omega (Ω) hyperon (left),...
Friday 20 November 2020 New artists for the Simetría residency at CERN and ALMA-ESO » Geneva, 10 November 2020. Today, Arts at CERN is announcing the two awards for the Simetría residency taking place in 20...
Friday 30 October 2020 Open call for the new edition of Collide residency award » Geneva, 27 October 2020. Today, Arts at CERN is announcing an international call for Collide , its flagship programme c...
Tuesday 15 September 2020 CERN and Lausanne University Hospital collaborate on a pioneering new cancer radiotherapy facility » Close-up of the Compact Linear Collider prototype, on which the electron FLASH design is based. (Image: CERN)/ Gros pl...
Thursday 13 August 2020 Rare phenomenon observed by ATLAS features the LHC as a high-energy photon collider » CERN , 5 August 2020 The ATLAS experiment reports the observation of photon collisions producing weak-forc...
Thursday 13 August 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Astrophysicists fill gaps in the history of the Universe » July 20202- EPFL. An international consortium of scientists has analyzed, as part of a vast program of cosmological sur...
Thursday 13 August 2020 X-rays indicate that water can behave like a liquid crystal » 11 August 2020 - Stockholm University Scientists at Stockholm University have discovered that water can exhibit a a behav...
Friday 19 June 2020 Estonia to become Associate Member in the Pre-Stage to Membership of CERN » Jüri Ratas, Estonia’s Prime Minister live from Tallinn and Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director-General at the signature ceremo...
Friday 12 June 2020 Scientists discover new forms of feldspars » DESY - High-pressure experiments reveal unknown variants of a common mineral In high-pressure experiments, scie...
Thursday 28 May 2020 Fresh antimatter study by ALICE Collaboration Will Help Search for Dark Matter » A view of the underground ALICE detector used in the study of the antideuteron / Vue du détecteur souterrain...
Monday 25 May 2020 ESO Telescope Sees Signs of Planet Birth— The Twist Marks the Spot » SPHERE images of the AB Aurigae system (side by side) Observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very...
Monday 18 May 2020 CLOUD at CERN reveals a new mechanism behind urban smog » An illustration of atmospheric inhomogeneities in a megacity, showing “Large Eddy Simulations” of Hong Kong superimp...
Thursday 7 May 2020 ASACUSA researchers create and study new exotic atom at PSI » Further studies could be used to test the Standard Model of particle physics Creat...
Thursday 7 May 2020 ESO Instrument Finds Closest Black Hole to Earth » 6 May 2020 - Invisible object has two companion stars visible to the naked eye A team of astronomers from th...
Thursday 30 April 2020 Support the petition from the Friends of the ERC » One of the greatest European success stories in the last decade is the European Research Council (ERC) . Thanks t...
Tuesday 28 April 2020 FAIR project: Contract awarding for shell constructions on the southern construction site » The development is progressing: The photo shows on the right side the northern part of the construction field with the tun...
Tuesday 28 April 2020 EPFL joins the giant radio telescope SKA for the Swiss community » The Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, will be the biggest radio telescope ever built. Thanks to this ambitious tool, some of...
Tuesday 14 April 2020 CERN establishes task force to contribute to global fight against COVID-19 » Particle physicists propose stripped-down ventilator to help combat COVID-19. The design for this High Energy Ventilator (...
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