How an evacuation of the CMS experimental cavern has provided invaluable human behaviour data to improve the emergency preparedness for complex underground facilities. CERN and CMS strive for excellence in safety matters, with a commitment to contin…

As a next step towards more open access to science, the CMS collaboration has just released in electronic format a set of likelihood functions describing early measurements of the Higgs boson. The full statistical model and the data used to make the…

In physics research, results are frequently represented in complex diagrams, and colour is an essential tool to help the reader extract key information.  Making sure our colour schemes are friendly to people with colour-vision deficiency (CVD in shor…