CERN Accelerating science

Latest TV news from CERN - LHC Computing Grid and upcoming results

Recently I participated in my second Science Hack Day (SHD), in San Francisco in November 2011. What is a Science Hack Day, you ask?

On 30^th October, scientists at CERN switched off the proton beams for the Large Hadron Collider. The completed 2011 run outdid all expectations, especially for luminosity, and provided the collider's four experiments with an unprecedented amount of data.

Introduction to the Higgs Boson and how CMS is looking for it

Science is closing in on the most elusive thing in the Universe.

On Saturday, 12^th November, a group of 240 young girls aged 11-14, sporting white lab coats, took the Science building of the University of Geneva by storm.

The 10- and 11-year-old children of Geneva town hall employees were allowed to skip classes on 10th November to participate in the nation-wide “Futur en Tous Genres” day and find out about different career prospects.

CMS is an experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that is searching for new physics

The CMS detector is a 5 storey-high digital camera recording hundreds of images per second of debris from LHC particle collisions

At about half-past five in the evening on Sunday, 30^th October, an e-mail from Run Coordination to the CMS collaboration said: