The latest from CERN

01/23/09

CERN's new director-general, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, recently promised a new era of open communication at the laboratory. Heuer revisits the issue of communication in his first column in today's issue of the CERN Bulletin, a bi-weekly publication for the CERN community.

Today's Bulletin also includes the first regular update on the status of the Large Hadron Collider.

popular on symmetry

Row of red and pink candles with pink background

06/14/16

The neutrino turns 60

Project Poltergeist led to the discovery of the ghostly particle. Sixty years later, scientists are confronted with more neutrino mysteries than ever before.

07/28/16

The deconstructed Standard Model equation

The Standard Model is far more than elementary particles arranged in a table.

Illustration representing properties of light

06/29/21

What is a photon?

The fundamental particle of light is both ordinary and full of surprises.

Conceptual illustration of a pie with a lattice crust

07/25/24

Explain it in 60 Seconds: Lattice QCD

Lattice gauge theory, or lattice QCD, is a calculation method that helps scientists make predictions about the behavior of quarks at low energies.