CERN : Science World Report

Mar 05, 2014 04:55 PM EST

Tool Developed at CERN Makes Software Citation Easier

Research output amounts to much more than just academic papers. It is important that underlying datasets, and the software used to analyze them, are also properly cited and that the researchers behind these are given credit for their work.

Feb 27, 2014 11:20 AM EST

Improving Data Analytics for Better Science

Ever-cheaper sensing and data-storage technologies are driving an explosion in data across many fields of science, as well as for businesses of all sizes.

Feb 07, 2014 01:59 PM EST

Gigantic Next Generation Particle Collider to Succeed LHC is in the Works

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) could have a circumference of 80 to 100 kilometres (the LHC has a circumference of 27km), but first a five-year exploratory study will be carried out to look into the feasibility and cost of various different machines.

Jan 22, 2014 03:46 PM EST

Antimatter Experiment Produces First Beam of Antihydrogen

The ASACUSA experiment at CERN has succeeded for the first time in producing a beam of antihydrogen atoms.

Jan 11, 2014 07:44 PM EST

Explainer: What are Leptons?

The giant Large Hadron Collider at CERN’s lab in Europe may be closed until 2015 but experiments will still be run there in the second half of this year on much smaller synchrotrons that examined the decay of particles into electrons, muons and neutrinos, all of which belong in a family called lep...

Dec 26, 2013 03:14 PM EST

Highlights from CERN in 2013

It's been a fruitful year 2013 for CERN, with success in many forms, like awards (Nobel prize), discoveries and expansions:

Dec 02, 2013 05:20 PM EST

ATLAS Experiment at CERN Shows that Higgs Boson Decays into Fermions

The ATLAS experiment at CERN has released preliminary results that show evidence that the Higgs boson decays to two tau particles.

Nov 18, 2013 05:32 PM EST

Superconducting Magnet Prototype Reaches 13.5 Tesla With New Material

CERN's Short Model Coil (SMC) programme currently tests new magnet technologies with magnets about 30 centimetres long. This technology will be crucial to eventually help engineers build even more powerful magnets for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and ever-more powerful future accelerators.

Oct 31, 2013 04:20 PM EDT

Tracking Scientific Output Across the Web

Scientific output is not just about academic papers. Datasets, along with other products of research, such as software and various forms of multimedia, also need to be made citable so that sharing and reuse can be facilitated, as well as tracked.

Oct 11, 2013 06:11 PM EDT

New Beam Dump Installed in Veteran CERN Accelerator

Beams do not circulate inside accelerators forever. As particles collide with the sides of the beam pipe or with each other, the beams "degrade" – they become less likely to give collisions that could lead to interesting physics.

Oct 03, 2013 04:30 PM EDT

Next-gen Particle Accelerator “Not Built” at CERN but Japan

The successor to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - the world's most powerful particle accelerator - will most likely be based in Japan. But this does not mean the end of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, near Geneva.

Oct 01, 2013 03:51 PM EDT

70,000 Visitors See Giant Particle Detectors at CERN Open Days

Over the weekend, CERN opened its doors to the public in the CERN Open Days 2013. The event saw some 70,000 people visit over 40 activities on the surface across CERN's Meyrin and Prevessin sites, with 20,000 people visiting CERN's underground installations